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UNITED STATES HISTORY: QUARTER 2 Question: The 1920’s produced significant change in America. Identify several changes and if these changes had a positive or negative impact on the United States. Use the documents to support your response. Background: The 1920s, a prosperous and optimistic time period, is known by a few names, such as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense, and the Age of Intolerance. It was a boisterous period characterized by rapidly changing lifestyles, financial excesses, and the fast pace of technological progress. It's also seen as a period of great advance as the nation became urban and commercial. This era embodied the beginning of modern America and would be a time of change for everyone. Document 1 "Don't expect us", she says to you, disconsolate male, "don't expect us to be like the old‐ fashioned girls who went to church, and did the laundry, and looked up to their husbands as to their God." Understanding the Flapper (Vanity Fair, 1921) Italian novelist and lexicographer Alfredo Panzini
