This week we speak on the 1920s era of for America. In my reading this week I seen how progressive and modern were the 1920s was in the U.S . The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. They also tried to make big business more responsible through regulations of various kinds. They wanted to clean up the corrupt city government. This way it can improve working conditions in factories. Another thing was to also better the living conditions for those who lived in slum areas.
Next lets talk about conservative or traditional in the 1920s. Around this time it was big battle over this topic. This battle was epitomized in religion, which is where much of the attempt to make society more moralistic stemmed from. There was a fierce battle raging during the decade between the traditionalists and the modernists in religion, with questions over how the Bible should be interpreted. This battle in religious issues spilled over into just about everything else, with the forces of conservatism attempting to preserve tradition and what they believed to be morality, and other forces seeking a more liberalized, free society. The conservative forces certainly won the war of ideas.
In the 1920 is wasn’t to nice for women till the end of the decade things got better. politics of feminism seemed less important to the “flapper generation”, this was partly because young women were taking the struggle for freedom into their personal lives. a significant number of women were beginning to claim the same licence as men. There were small steps of encouragement, too, with divorce made easier by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 and contraception made more readily available by the Marie Stopes mail-order service. The flapper generation may have been comparatively apolitical and self-absorbed, but, as they puzzled out what freedom meant and tested their personal limits. You can just say basically coming to the end of the decade, some feminists would say that women’s great achievements in the 20s was learning to value their individuality.
Lets also talked about my favorite part of the 20s The Harlem Renaissance. IT was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement. The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s. Im actually from New York so hearing about this growing learning about it always been my thing.
I agree that the 20's were a time of battling against corruption, and the USA took many steps to do that in the government. I always think of the battle of Al Capone against the whole state of Chicago when he was in his heyday of running the mob. the 20's were a very interesting time in our history and a lot fo things happened. Nice post.
ReplyDeletegreat job ivan, i can tell you really understood what was really going on . its very well written . you was able to tell us about the bad that hey went through but also the good. its crazy how racism is so big like i don't understand how someone could just dislike someone else just because the color of your skin. the bad thing is it still goes on today.
ReplyDeleteHey Ivan I enjoyed reading your blog posts because you didn’t focus on the famous “roaring 20s). You drew the audience to look at how religion was going through a transformation as well, that I didn’t know about. Aside from religion, I also liked how you bought attention to Women growing in their natural freedom.
ReplyDeleteHey Ivan, this was a good read and your points were well-communicated through the entire post. It is easy to differentiate the positives of this time period from the negatives and it helps give me more insight to things i didnt know about the time period before. The way you were able to highlight the newfounds freedoms of women receives a plus from me. I enjoyed this a lot.
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