The decade of the 1920s was a time of many difficulties and despair. The stock market crash, in 1929, was the worst time of the decade. The stock market crash was before the depression. On the other hand, Harding, the 29 th president of the United States, was fighting corruption of the government, while AL Capone was creating his own evil empire. At the same time, the butler act was forbidding schools to teach the theory of evolution. However, Marcus Garvey established the UBIA (universal black improvement association). During this decade, it was about rebuilding America, and growth of the economy.

    In October of 1929, the stock market crash had begun. People were forced to give up their homes, and their belongings. Prices and wages were going down, because there was not enough money, and unemployment rates were going up. Bottom-line, people in the United States, in the late 1920s, were losing everything they had worked so hard for, and   they were in dire straits.

    America was truly desperate for strong leaders. One of the leaders was Marcus Garvey. He was a great man for African Americans. He founded the UBIA, (universal black improvement association). Garvey was arrested for sending a fraud mail and he was in prison for five years. On the other hand President Harding did not accept the bribes to control the oil fields. Vice president Coolidge became President after Harding's death. People were happy because president Coolidge had been a president for five years, then he finally retired soon after.

    Following this the Tennessee government was ratified. The butler act believes that evolutional theory was evil. Scope was a teacher who teaches theory of evolution. Scope was sued for teaching the theory of evolution and found guilty; he has to pay a $100 fine. Eventually prohibition caused corruption, Al Capone was a powerful mob boss who sold alcohol. Al Capone bribed law official to continue his racketeering.

    Therefore the era of the 1920s through 1930s was about rebuilding America. In the late 1920s the economy and America were falling apart. In 1929 there was an establishment of the term or phase "The Great Depression" most Americans commonly used this term to describe this period of time. It was a very sad time, because most of the American People lost their jobs because of low wages and high unemployed rate, and the value of the American dollar was low. To conclude this was an era, which took strength, and great leadership to rebuild the economy, and American lives!