Title: America5
Headings: ‘The Roaring Twenties’. Is this a good description of the USA in the 1920s?
‘The Roaring Twenties’. Is this a good description of the USA in the 1920s?
The pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser and liquor was cheaper..
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1 . Entertainment
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2. Women
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3. Race Relations
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4. Prohibition
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Why Prohibition [ ACRIME]
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Why Prohibition Failed [ NCP]
5. Organised Crime
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Prohibition is a business. All I do is supply a public demand. I do it in the best and least harmful way I can
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Content: Many women had taken over jobs traditionally reserved for men (such as manufacturing), and 1920-29 the number of working women increased by 25%; many went to be teachers and secretaries. b. Vote: In 1920 the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. The former suffrage campaigners formed themselves into the Woman's Joint Congressional Committee, which lobbied successfully for a Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921), equal nationality rights for married women (1922), and the Child Labor Amendment (1925). c. Flappers: dumped the old restrictive fashions, corsets etc. in favour of short skirts, short hair, and the flat-chested 'garconne' look. Many of them wore men's clothing. They smoked, drank, used make-up, played tennis, and danced wildly in jazz clubs.