This website will give you everything you need to know about the twenties. You can read about everything, from jazz and scientists, to movies and presidents.

Fun Facts About the Twenties

- 106,521,537 people in the United States 

- 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% 

- Life expectancy:  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6 

- 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) 

- Average annual earnings $1236;  Teacher's salary  $970 

- Dow Jones High 100  Low 67  

- Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the population.  

- Gangland crime included murder, swindles, racketeering 

- It took 13 days to reach California from New York  There were 387,000 miles of paved road.