state of wealth and prosperity in the USA in the first post-war period ⬆

Reduction in domestic demand
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American produced more than it could consume

Payment of war debts 💰
2.Production and sale of arms and food during War 🤝

ROARING 20s 🦁 💥

changes

ECONOMIC 💸

TECHNOLOGICAL 🖥

SOCIAL 👪

POLITICAL 📖

• More American started to live in cities 🏙
•growth of population
•optimism in people
•Radio and movies → music and dance: jazz and Charleston; new hobbies 🎵 🕺🏻
•Art: Harlem Renaissance
•Changment of women state → freer and indipendent, started to work

Not all could benefit from this prosperity
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Decreasing of labourers wages and weakness of agricolture → farmers 👨🏻‍🌾 and labourers 👷🏻 become poorer and poorer

•Growth of population→increasing the demand→rise of consumerism
•Mass production→fall of prices

•New inventions (radio; movies; household appliances: washing machine, pop-up toaster, vacuum cleaner; traffic lights)
•Canned food and ready-made clothes
•Development of transportation and infrastructures → car permitted to commute to work🚗
•Assembly line for production

•19th Amendment: given women the right to vote
•18th Amendment: outlaw sales of liquor 🍷❌
•Prohibition→rise of crime and violence, speakeasies, illegal business
•Republican administrations→curb hedonism→Ku Klux Klan
•Tariff duties on imported goods

Reduction in domestic demand
↓
American produced more than it could consume