How Did The Roaring Twenties Affect Society

The Roaring Twenties America had just finished fighting in the first World War, known as The Great War during that period. Europe was wracked in debt and confusion as the nations attempted to rebuild their land and destroyed economy. The war led to the development of the League of Nations and the Dawes Plan to maintain world peace and loan out money to Germany, respectively. The period that followed The Great War was known as the “New Era”, or the Roaring Twenties. This period from 1920 to 1929 was characterized by experimentation with laws and societal standards for women, cultural excitement with the birth of the Harlem Renaissance and the rise of media, changes in society. All the emerging movements and glamour of the Roaring Twenties, however, were shadowed by increasing racial conflicts and political scandals. The Roaring

Xenophobia was prevalent throughout the entire country, and led to the creation of immigration. Similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, immigration laws, like the National Origind Act, restricted the numbers of foreigners that could enter the country. Other laws that were created, especially in California, restricted civil liberties of minorities. These laws made it much more difficult for immigrants to buy land and obtain jobs. It also created more hostility to immigrants in the form of racism. This social unrest would result in the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which was initially created during the Reconstruction period. The Ku Klux Klan was revived from nativist passions and grew dramatically in size. This organization persecuted anyone who was not “traditionally American”: anyone who was a minority or believed in a different religion was persecuted. The Klan terrorized foreigners and Catholics and boycotted their businesses. Many minorities were the primary victims of hostility during the Roaring