Booming 1920's

"In accounts of the rise of the modern liberal state in America, the 1920s generally appear only as a historical parenthesis between the progressive era and the New Deal. No question the decade saw relatively little extension of government social programs and economic regulation. But if we take civil liberties and the rules governing the public sphere to be integral features of the liberal state, the twenties were a crucial decade, for it was then that the courts, and to some extent Congress, began to develop a more protective legal framework for free speech"(286). The 1920s was an underrated force that aided in the beginning of a positive in civil liberties and freedom of speech for people. The 1920s was a big turning point for people and intellectual advancement and the out pour of urban culture.