How would you characterize the 1920s as a decade?

ubject: World literature
Topic: U. S. FROM 1865 TO PRESENT
Read the assigned chapter and documents on the 1920s, how would you characterize the 1920s as a decade?
Chapters 16-20 is what it should be done on.
This essay should be roughly 300 words. Here is the book:http://www.americanyawp.com/