honors history 3

With the growth of construction people were successful in finding a job and bringing in a decent income. these jobs involved construction, steel, concrete, lumber, home mortgages and insurance companies. After the war there was a large increase of construction. The big cities of the nation were getting bigger and the stress of having more were put upon the construction industry as well. These major cities started having buildings built that were over 20 stories tall. Suburban growth was increased the most. More and more people were moving from the cities to the suburb and the need for more homes increased. In Grosse Point a suburb area had seen a population increase by 700 percent.

the automobile industry was the one idea that everybody seemed to love. The automobile industry was loved by everyone and so their company grew bigger day by day. Before the 1920’s, automobiles hadn’t quite made an impact on the popularity scale but by 1920 there were 10 million automobiles in America. By the end of the 1920’s, the numbers had increased to 26 million. Automobiles became more popular in the 1920’s because they were more affordable. "Henry Ford made it possible by pushing standardization and mass production to such ruthless extremes that the automobile became affordable.”

The women of the 1920’s were the new fighting force of America. Fredrick Lewis Allen called it the “revolution in manners and morals” of the 1920’s. Before World War I, there were many restrictions on women but once the war ended, all of the restrictions were lifted. before women could have been arrested for smoking cigarettes, driving automobiles without a man in the car with them, using profanity and even for going to the beach and not wearing stockings. After the war women were no longer had these silly restrictions placed upon them. The 1920’s began a time where women could be rebellious and express themselves openly. The women of this time period became known as “the flappers” because they wore makeup, tight outfits and hats.