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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era marks a time of corruption and the people's response in the United States. The late 1800s saw a lot of corruption in the United States and the early 1900s tried to correct that with the age of Progressivism. The Progressive Era seeked to end practices such as child labor and other labor practices that were exposed by people such as the muckrakers. The 1920s noticed a big change in the American lifestyle with new forms of media and entertainment as well.
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The Gilded Age, Progressive Era, and 1920s
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Prohibition also led to a spike in crime rates and gangsters such as Al Capone became more powerful.
Young women who cut their hair, became more independent, and rebeled against the conservative fashion of their parents were known as flappers.
The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age both blossomed during the 1920s.
People avoided Prohibition (which made alcohol illegal) in speakeasies where they could illegally by alcoholic beverages.
