With a pro-business Republican Party in government throughout the 1920s, business owners profited from the boom. Men such as Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford were instantly ...

That’s why the depression was so severe — because we started so high, we fell so low… [In the 1920s] every part of the economy did well, except for coal mining and certain parts of agriculture.

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Whilst the American economy had undoubtedly grown during the 1920s, there was a huge gap between rich and poor. Additionally, much of the wealth was concentrated at the top of society. A third of ...

A booming economy, after several years of "saving for the war effort," made the United States ripe for the explosion of consumer goods and technology that shaped the 1920s. The United States ...