Roaring Twenties Almanac | Prelude to the 1920s

• Changes are both exciting and frightening
• A lively new culture
• Industry and immigrants
• The Progressive Era
• Amending the Constitution
• African Americans migrate to the North
• World War I
• Wilson's plan for peace
• The war's aftermath
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It is tempting to think of the 1920s as a distinct period bordered on one end by World War I (1914–18), the bloody conflict that was supposed to spread democracy across the globe, and on the other by the Great Depression (1929–41), the period of...