By: Sadie Espino and Sarah Mannon

Chapter 22Section 2

Changes in American Society.

Vocab:

Restrict- to confine to keep within a certain boundary or limit; to place limitations on something or somebody.

Isolate- to set apart or to separate.

Key terms

Prohibition- a total ban on alcoholic drinks

Bootlegger- liquor smugglers Speakeasy- or illegal taverns that

served liquor

Banned the use of Alcohol

In the 1800s, many people, mainly women, had worked to reduce alcohol use in the United States.

Later on supporters of temperance began supporting prohibition

Many Americans saw it as a way to conserve on grains during WWI. Due to this reasoning the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919.

In 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment bans the use and sale of alcohol.

Dumping Whiskey-

Prohibition was intended to solve such social problems as drunkenness and family violence

There was a drop in the amount of alcohol that people consumed.

It was easy to smuggle liquor across the border from Canada and the Caribbean.

Women’s Rights

• Women, now able to vote, sought more freedom in 1920s.

• Due to the nineteenth amendment, American women voted in their first presidential election in 1920.

• In 1924, the first women governors were elected: Nellie Tayloe Ross in Wyoming and Mirian “Ma” Ferguson in Texas.

• Other areas of life remain more restricted. Many universities and professional schools, such as medical school, still barred women from admission.

• In some states, women still could not serve on juries or keep their own earnings if they were married.

New Attitude in the 1920s Many younger

women during the 1920s did not seem interested in women’s rights. They were called flappers, these young women shocked the older generation.

“She is frankly, heavily made up… pallor mortis, poisonously scarlet lips, richly ringed eyes…and there are, finally, her clothes… Her dress… is cut low where it might be high, and vice versa. The skirt comes just an in inch below her knees, overlapping by a faint fraction her rolled and twisted stockings. The idea is that when she walks in a bit of a breeze, you shall now and then observe her knee… [The flappers] haircut is also abbreviated. She wears of course the very newest thing in bobs…”

-Bruce Bliven, “Flapper Jane,” The New Republic. Sept. 9, 1925

Magic of the silver screen Charles Chaplin was among

many Hollywood stars who became household names during the 1920s.

Americans especially loved action films, comedies were also popular, and actors, such as Charles Chaplin, became celebrities.

Animated movies began in the 1920s, and the Walt Disney company was founded in 1923.

A New Mass Culture.

• The automobile, the radio, and the movies brought sweeping changes to America life’s.

• The automobile changed American life in many ways. It became a symbol of individual freedom and independence.

• They created new businesses like gas station, roadside restaurants, and cabins sprang up along newly built highways.

The radio

• Commercial radio was an instant success. Almost any family could afford to buy a radio.

• The radio became a leading supplier of entertainment, families listened together at night after dinner.

• It put Americans into baseball games and on the floor of political conversations. It turned bands leaders, singers, and comedians into household names.

Social Conflicts

The rapid changes of the 1920s also brought social tension and radical unrest.

Not everyone shared in the new postwar social values. Some were offended by what they saw. They feared that rapid social and economic changes would destroy a treasured way of life.

The scopes trail

• John Scopes was a high school biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee. He was accused of violating Tennessee law by teaching the theory of evolution to his students.

• Trail became a national sensation.

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