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Chapter 25 The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)

Chapter 25 The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929). SECTION 2. Why would people be against alcohol?. Violence in the family Crime Health problems Financial concerns for families. II. New Ways of Life - Prohibition A. Prohibition - ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor

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Chapter 25 The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)

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  1. Chapter 25 The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929) SECTION 2

  2. Why would people be against alcohol? • Violence in the family • Crime • Health problems • Financial concerns for families

  3. II. New Ways of Life - Prohibition • A. Prohibition - ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor • Eighteenth Amendment - banned the use of liquor in the U.S.

  4. Prohibition – A Noble Experiment or a Failure? • 2. Evading the law • Made their own. • smuggled it from Canada & Caribbean. • Smugglers hid it in their boots = bootleggers. • Speak-easies opened

  5. Organized crime • provided liquor for speak-easies • Crime = big business. • divided up cities -forced speak-easy owners to buy from them.

  6. Repeal - cancellation • Prohibition reduced drinking - never stopped it. • In 1933 Twenty First Amendment - repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.

  7. B. New Rights for Women • Women Voters • League of Women Voters – worked to educate voters, guarantee rights (jury service) • Voted like men – not as thought • 19th Amendment • Equal Rights Amendment – equality not denied based on gender • Never ratified Suffragettes

  8. Changes for Women Workers • Worked outside home in jobs of men off at war • Poor joined by middle class • Life at home changed – appliances, ready-made clothes • Second shift at home

  9. C. Impact of the Automobile • The invention of the automobile had a great impact on Americans in the 1920’s. • Car sales grew rapidly during this period. • Auto industry played a big role in the business boom of the 1920’s. • Jobs, Steel, rubber, metal, tires, paint, glass, oil, paved roads, built highways, gas stations, garages, car dealers, motels, roadside restaurants, mechanic shops • Car prices also fell because factories became more efficient. • Henry Ford – assembly line (14 hours to 93 minutes) • The cost of the Model T dropped from $850 to $290. Americans do not need to be rich to buy a car. • Americans traveled to more places thanks to the automobile.

  10. With the low cost of the Automobile people moved outside of the towns, called suburbs. A suburb is a community located outside the city. With cars people could drive to their job in the city even though it was miles away. A suburb

  11. Effect AUTO BOOM Car sales grew rapidly

  12. What, as a country, do we do that is uniquely American? • Baseball hats • Gum chewing • Jeans • Car size • Food (burgers)

  13. New Ways of Life – Creating a Mass Culture • With travel easier, people learned more about different parts of the country = national cultural. • New forms of entertainment also added to a national cultural (more money & time for leisure) • RADIO • Shows – comedies, westerns • Classical music, jazz • News, sports broadcasts • MOVIES • Millions of Americans went to the movies. The first movies had no sound and were in black and white. A pianist played music that went with the action(1927 = “Talkies”) • Westerns, romance, adventure, comedies • Hollywood movie stars – Charlie Chaplin

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