Knowra Roaring Twenties Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a period of economic growth, consumer culture, and social change during the 1920s, especially in the United States and Western Europe.
Wall Street Crash of 1929 : A catastrophic collapse in United States stock prices in October 1929 that helped usher in the Great Depression. The crash abruptly ended the decade’s boom and exposed the fragility of its financial speculation.
Radio in the United States : The development of radio broadcasting as a mass medium in the United States during the early twentieth century. Radio carried music, news, and advertising into homes, creating a shared national audience.
Fordism : A system of mass production and standardized goods associated with Henry Ford’s automobile factories. Assembly-line methods helped lower costs and make consumer products more widely available.
Prohibition in the United States : The nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors under the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act. A reform campaign’s legal victory coexisted with speakeasies, bootlegging, and urban nightlife.
The Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel about wealth, aspiration, and social class on Long Island during the Jazz Age. Its portrayal of conspicuous wealth became a lasting literary image of the decade.
Great Depression : A worldwide economic crisis beginning in 1929, marked by mass unemployment, falling production, and financial collapse. It followed the boom and crash, turning the Roaring Twenties into a stark before-and-after in economic history.
Automobile industry in the United States : The American industry that manufactures and sells motor vehicles, transformed by mass production in the early twentieth century. Affordable cars expanded mobility and reshaped work, leisure, and suburban growth.
Installment plan : A payment arrangement in which a buyer pays for a good through a series of scheduled partial payments. Buying on credit let consumers acquire cars and appliances before paying their full prices.
Lost Generation : A group of writers associated with disillusionment after World War I, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their work often questioned the materialism and shallow optimism associated with the decade.
Babe Ruth : An American baseball player whose home-run hitting made him one of the sport’s most famous figures. His celebrity reflected the rise of mass sports, newspapers, and popular entertainment.
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