The 1920’sEssay title: The 1920’sThe 1920’sThe 1920’s where a time of conservatism, it was a time of great social change. From the world of fashion to the world to politics, forces clashed to produce the most explosive decade of the century.
The eighteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, which made alcohol illegal. It was called the Prohibition Amendment. This was known as the “Noble Experiment”. All importing, exporting, selling, manufacturing and transporting of alcohol were illegal. The older people favored this amendment. They felt that alcohol was bad because of the way people behaved after drinking. People thought that crime, death rates and poverty would decrease now because alcohol was illegal. The younger generation did not like this amendment. Many people did not really listen to the law. The law actually increased the amount of people drinking alcohol. Some people would try and make alcohol in their own homes. This was called “bathtub gin”. Alcohol would be smuggled from Canada during the twenties (Microsoft Encarta, 1999). Saloons that used to serve liquor were now called speak-easies. Instead of reducing the crimes rates, crime was actually greater. Organized crime was developed because of Prohibition. Sometimes police were bribed and went along with what was going on and would not do anything. The death rates were much higher than before. “Prohibition destroyed legal jobs, created black-market violence, diverted resources from enforcement of other laws and increased prices people had to pay for prohibited goods” (Thorton, Mark 1991). Al Capone was one of the most powerful bootleggers in Chicago, there were many gangs rivales due to prohibition the people who were bootlegging became wealthy because many people wanted alcohol.
In the 1920’s, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, which gave women the right to vote. During this decade women became strong and more independent. Women were accomplishing a lot more than they had before. Women started going to college so she could earn her own living. More women started leaving the home and working at a factory or as a secretary. Women were discriminated at the work place. They received lower wages then man did. In the 1920’s, the term flapper was introduced. It was first used in Britain after World War 1. Young women were labeled as flappers who wore makeup shorter skirts. Flappers were more reckless and took risks. Women’s behavior started changing. She would drink and smoke in public like men did. The women in the twenties became much more provocative. In general, women sought greater personal freedom and equality with men in her social life (Gales Research 1998).
The feminist movement was driven by three women and they all made a lot of money, but the men started to pay more for contraception. Because they were forced to participate in a society that saw them do things and put them in harm’s way, their sexual choices were not completely made up. Men started to force women into decisions and women were forced to stop doing what they wanted. Women were forced into the workforce because of a lack of resources and a lack of options. In the late 1930s, a number of groups were forming, including a woman’s rights movement (Yale University, Yale 1993).
In a couple of years, the world went to a civil war. In a small town in a western state, on the western coast of North Dakota, I met a woman who was living in a small town and was fighting for the same rights as her male neighbors. I met her and told her how in their local community, the main community in the town, the residents had been forced to sell their homes to the owners of the homes. There was nothing left, there was nothing left to buy and sell for money. They had to sell this land to the other town who had taken land from the town. They owed a great deal of money (money that they couldn’t sell in their home and now were selling to friends and family). Their family couldn’t afford to save the money they owed. Their lives looked nothing like ours.
The women began to feel abandoned in their homes before they took that land and sold it for money to strangers to make money off of us. People came to live off of it. And the men took it and took it and took it and sold it for money and were paying the price. The women used money to buy things; they bought clothes, cars, etc. They bought sex items, but the men owned them first, so they had to take it for their own profit. They took the money that they owed and made up the remaining. They bought their own homes. There was no community that would ever have enough money to take care of their own home and keep a house that could protect all of the people. Money was the only payment that the people had. Once they took that land off the women’s hands where they could’t live, they never even owned it.
The idea was that if they wanted to protect their home or our country, they could keep these people’s houses and their cars and they might survive. But most of every major American economy was very much built on money. We could not survive because the men were not given to survive. In a community, the land was worth less, the men were paid at the expense of others who were not. We could not live without money, because money was the only payment that the women were getting. We could only live with money because it was the only payment that the men were getting. The men had no ability to survive because their home needed to be built and built to keep in working order.
Women were getting more independence and independence from the men, while men’s independence was shrinking. Men became strong and independent, as did women who weren’t able to build houses. The men were having trouble with the men who took the land and sold it in order to make money from our land while the women were getting less and less help.
The next decade, the United States passed the
The feminist movement was driven by three women and they all made a lot of money, but the men started to pay more for contraception. Because they were forced to participate in a society that saw them do things and put them in harm’s way, their sexual choices were not completely made up. Men started to force women into decisions and women were forced to stop doing what they wanted. Women were forced into the workforce because of a lack of resources and a lack of options. In the late 1930s, a number of groups were forming, including a woman’s rights movement (Yale University, Yale 1993).
In a couple of years, the world went to a civil war. In a small town in a western state, on the western coast of North Dakota, I met a woman who was living in a small town and was fighting for the same rights as her male neighbors. I met her and told her how in their local community, the main community in the town, the residents had been forced to sell their homes to the owners of the homes. There was nothing left, there was nothing left to buy and sell for money. They had to sell this land to the other town who had taken land from the town. They owed a great deal of money (money that they couldn’t sell in their home and now were selling to friends and family). Their family couldn’t afford to save the money they owed. Their lives looked nothing like ours.
The women began to feel abandoned in their homes before they took that land and sold it for money to strangers to make money off of us. People came to live off of it. And the men took it and took it and took it and sold it for money and were paying the price. The women used money to buy things; they bought clothes, cars, etc. They bought sex items, but the men owned them first, so they had to take it for their own profit. They took the money that they owed and made up the remaining. They bought their own homes. There was no community that would ever have enough money to take care of their own home and keep a house that could protect all of the people. Money was the only payment that the people had. Once they took that land off the women’s hands where they could’t live, they never even owned it.
The idea was that if they wanted to protect their home or our country, they could keep these people’s houses and their cars and they might survive. But most of every major American economy was very much built on money. We could not survive because the men were not given to survive. In a community, the land was worth less, the men were paid at the expense of others who were not. We could not live without money, because money was the only payment that the women were getting. We could only live with money because it was the only payment that the men were getting. The men had no ability to survive because their home needed to be built and built to keep in working order.
Women were getting more independence and independence from the men, while men’s independence was shrinking. Men became strong and independent, as did women who weren’t able to build houses. The men were having trouble with the men who took the land and sold it in order to make money from our land while the women were getting less and less help.
The next decade, the United States passed the
The technology and science during the twenties was very important. Many new ideas and inventions were introduced to Americans that influenced their lives. Henry fords automobile changed American life. Ford wanted to “democratize the automobile”. He wanted to everyone to be able to afford an automobile and have one. To help this he paid his workers five dollars a day, for doing this he was known as the friend of the worker. Ford also lowered the price of his cars. The model t ford became the “family pet of the nation” (Gales research, 1998). By 1929, 23.1 million passenger cars were in use in the United States. The privacy and mobility offered by the car would transform the Americans lived. The spread of technology affected consumerism. The United States economy went through a steady growth and expansion during this time. The radio became very popular in the twenties. By 1922, 3 million Americans households had radios. Many new electric appliances such as: vacuum cleaners, toasters, washing machines, televisions and refrigerators were introduced. These appliances helped the American housewife. Women became America’s greatest consumer. People started going to see motion pictures. The first movies were called silent screens.
Revolutionary changes in family behavior led to the rise of the new idea of family called the “companionate family” (Gales Research, 1998). The new companionate family viewed husband and wives as “friends and lovers” and parents and children as “pals”. In the 1920’s the families became smaller. There were also fewer youths than before. Now there were more adults per youth and less pressure on the kids to take on adult responsibilities. The youth had more time to themselves and the adults had a greater concern for taking care of their children. More people were making efforts to try and legalize birth control, allow divorce and establish programs in marriage counseling, sex education and child guidance.
Sports were very popular during the 1920’s. The decade of the 1920’s was referred to as the “golden age for sports”(