Question

What does the phrase “The Roaring Twenties” refer to?

2. What President promised a “return to normalcy” after World War I?

3. Who were the Flappers?

4. Why were they seen as brash? ( give six reasons)

5. What type of music became most popular in the 1920s

6. What are the “Roaring Twenties” also known as?

7. What event marked the end of “The Roaring Twenties”?

Answer 1

The Roaring Twenties refers to the unprecedented rate of economic growth during the 1920s, a period of rising prosperity unmatched at any time before or since. Warren Harding ran in the election of 1920 on a promise of return to normalcy, but it wasn't specifically about World War I, but rather the incessant interference with economic and personal life by the Wilson Administration, which is about the closest thing the United States has ever had to a fascist style of government. The Roarding Twenties closed with the stock market crash of 1929, which following a sequence of disastrous governmenrt reactions -- arguably mainly the policy of the Federal Reserve system, created about 20 years earlier by the Wilson Administration, to restrict the availibility of debt -- led to a deflationary spiral and turned what might have been an ordinary business recession into the Great Depression, which lasted from 1930 to 1940, roughly.

You can research flappers and other such frivolity on your own.