Depression Era Project. Throughout the 1920s there were many bad times and many good times. From things like the Flappers, women who started doing things considered “unladylike,” to the stock market crash to the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1920s and 1930s were full of twists and turns. The fact that Herbert Hoover, beloved during World War I, was beaten by newcomer Franklin D. Roosevelt was also a surprise. However, after the stock market crashed FDR's election and his many new policies were arguably the best thing to happen to America at the time, it seems that other things, like Prohibition, Flappers and Speakeasys, tended instead to take the spotlight. many good things happened in the 1920s. First there was the rise of the Flappers. These women had many things on their minds, and being subjected to a stereotype was not one of them. They began to do things that left the men of that time speechless. They started going out and dancing in clubs, they smoked just like the average adult man of the time, they drank and swore, and they even decided to go out and gamble. They were definitely moving the female stereotype of the time in a whole new direction when they decided that their husbands didn't have to be the only ones having fun. “At the limit of their independence, women have produced another form of their self-compatible image. In the 1920s a new woman was born.” (Rosenburg par.1) But the Flappers weren't the only great thing that happened in the Roaring '20s, no, there was a lot more going on then. For the first time in American history, the average middle-class family began to have disposable income, or money that they did not have to use for necessities. These families began to be... middle of paper... During Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first 100 days in office, as he unveiled his New Deal to combat the Great Depression, his plans met with both skepticism and support. " (Bolden par.1) And in his inaugural address he is reported to have said: “This great nation will endure as it has endured, will be reborn and prosper, and the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Gaur par. 4) Shortly after FDR gave his New Deal, in which he promised to get the economy back on track and create new jobs for the unemployed, he employed over 19 million people The CWA, or Civil Works Administration, was created primarily to help provide work for unemployed Americans. The CWA ended up providing jobs for approximately four million Americans and in the process improved the physical and psychological state of Americans.