Decide to write a paper on the 1920s. During this time period it may have seemed as though it was filled with optimism and prosperity but ultimately this era fell short leading to the Great Depression.
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/depression-origin.php#:~:text=The%20Great%20Depression%20was%20a,widely%20known%20as%20Black%20Tuesday.
This article has some good beginning discretions of how the 1920s began to decline and lead to the Great Depression. This allows for a start to examining the way the 1920s was a true year of struggling with economic and social issues being masked with other things to not seem as bad as it really was. Racism was also still at an all time high that was also being masked and made to look as racism was not still abundant during this era.
Thesis : "The 1920s, often hailed as a decade of optimism and prosperity, was ultimately a facade masking the deep social, economic, and racial tensions that would soon lead to the Great Depression, revealing that the era's apparent affluence was built on unsustainable foundations“.
Source 2
https://www.history.com/articles/roaring-twenties-labor-great-depression
Thesis: Despite the outward appearance of economic prosperity in the 1920s, the decade's reliance on investments, income inequality, and overextension of credit led to widespread financial instability, setting the stage for the devastating crash of 1929 stock market and highlight the economic hardships that would occur in the Great Depression.
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/depression-origin.php#:~:text=The%20Great%20Depression%20was%20a,widely%20known%20as%20Black%20Tuesday.
This article has some good beginning discretions of how the 1920s began to decline and lead to the Great Depression. This allows for a start to examining the way the 1920s was a true year of struggling with economic and social issues being masked with other things to not seem as bad as it really was. Racism was also still at an all time high that was also being masked and made to look as racism was not still abundant during this era.
Thesis : "The 1920s, often hailed as a decade of optimism and prosperity, was ultimately a facade masking the deep social, economic, and racial tensions that would soon lead to the Great Depression, revealing that the era's apparent affluence was built on unsustainable foundations“.
Source 2
https://www.history.com/articles/roaring-twenties-labor-great-depression
Thesis: Despite the outward appearance of economic prosperity in the 1920s, the decade's reliance on investments, income inequality, and overextension of credit led to widespread financial instability, setting the stage for the devastating crash of 1929 stock market and highlight the economic hardships that would occur in the Great Depression.