文档介绍：Background
of Chicago
The story happened in the 1920s in America, so-called the roaring twenties, or the Jazz Ages.
It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire。 这是一个奇迹的时代,一个艺术的时代,一个挥金如土的时代,也是一个充满嘲讽的时代。 -----The Jazz Age by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Ages
1920s was a special age,
when the first world war just ended ,
the great depression had e yet.
In this period, America was highly thrived, especially in economy (enough wealth from the war and precious opportunity to develop the economy in the aftermath of the war).
Economy
great economic growth
widespread prosperity
Demobilization(复员)
After the World War I , the . economies rebounded as returning soldiers consumed goods, re-entered the labor force and thus factories were retooled to produce new goods.
Economic policies
laissez faire economics(自由放任经济政策)
New products and technologies
Mass production (批量生产)made technology affordable to the middle automobile, movie, radio, and chemical industries skyrocketed during the 1920s.
During the 1920’s new dances, new music, new games and other new ways of fun