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: 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. Some were openly lesbian, others were sexually active. Argument 2 - NOT significant: a. Work: most working women were in low-paid jobs, and they were paid less than men for the same job. 10 million women were working in 1930 ... but this was still only a quarter of the females age 15 and over;