The roaring ‘s was a period of time that major cities around the globe experienced unprecedented economic growth. The 1920’s saw large scale growth and introduction of new technologies and products such as the automobile, electricity, telephone and motion pictures to name a few.
The end of World War 1 brought home soldiers with wartime wages to spend and the need for new jobs. . These soldiers increased the labor force and many found jobs in factories that reopened and began producing consumer goods.
Fundamentalism was a movement in the 20’s to reinstate Christianity and interpret the bible in a literal sense. Fundamentalists felt their “traditional lifestyle was under attack in the rapidly changing decade. Was a result of the booming economy people had new cheaper cars, new movies to go see, and the radio to listen to and spread new ideas quicker and more efficiently.

With the introduction of the 1920’s came some uncertainties, such as the Red Scare which began due to a group of professional revolutionaries starting the Bolshevik revolution in Russia (1919). The Black scare which was caused by the rising black population after WWI and resulting in the rebirth and growth of the Ku Klux Klan.
President Harding took office in 1921 and promised changes in the economic policies of the Government. Andrew Mellon was a millionaire who was appointed Secretary of treasury by President Harding in 1921. Mellon was a businessman whom sought to balance the budget creating the General Accounting Office and the Bureau of the Budget to make the government more efficient to reduce the debt, resulting in Economic expansion Hoover was Appointed to Secretary of commerce by Harding, trade associations, efficiency. Made productivity go up, prices go down resulting in a huge economic boom.
New products and technologies were a result of the roaring 20’s. Electricity was being installed in homes across America, therefore, more power plants were being constructed, which in turn created more jobs. Henry ford ‘s assembly line resulted in cheaper, better automobiles for the consumers allowing people to travel and meet more than ever before which created the need for better infrastructure. The Government was spending large amounts of money to build bigger and better roads; some were c highways and expressways.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew nonstop 33 and one-half hours from NY to Paris, was watched worldwide and sparked a huge interest in aviation. 1926 Air commerce act.
In 1929, the roaring 20’s came to a screeching halt. On October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, stock prices on Wall Street collapsed. The events in the United States added to a worldwide depression, later called the Great Depression, which put millions of people out of work across the world throughout the 1930s.