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Roaring Twentys

The Roaring Twenties

The 1920s. It was the Jazz Age, the Era of Wonderful Nonsense, the Age of Babbitts,
Bootlegging, and Bathtub Gin. Americans were speeding up, moving out, buying more, having fun, and dreaming bigger. Many events and changes made the twenties a new and exciting era to live in. The country grew because of the new inventions, such as the automobile, the radio, and film making. The social groups went under some changes too. Women's rights, new inventions and entertainment were just a few of the many things that made the 1920's to be considered roaring.
The 1920's started with the Act of Prohibitation, the ban of alcohol. In 1919, the government passed the 18th amendment, the Act of Prohibitation. This act was a ban to stop manufactacturing, the sales, and the transportation of alcohol anywhere in the United States. Some people called this the "noble experiment." In the 1920s many Americans abused alcohol. Many felt that a ban on the liquor would stop or decline alcohol abuse. Alcoholism did decline during this Prohibitation, but the ban did not work. Many found other ways to get around this law. Some people manufactured their own alcohol which was known as bathtub gin. Other people smuggled alcohol from Canada and the Caribbean. Sometimes the smugglers hid the alcohol in their boots, and they became known as bootleggers.
After a while crime increased as people rebelled against not able to drink alcohol. Several illegal bars called speakeasies were started. This sense of illegal drinking made drinking alcohol more popular than ever. It even attracted women to visit these speakeasies places. The underground saloons did a booming business. To keep these illegal clubs stocks with liquor-alcohol thousands of rumrunner, bootleggers, and beer barons, who were forced to work beyond the law.
As time passed more and more people began to rethink the Prohibition as a mistake. By the mid-1920s...