Ch. 30: American Life in the Roaring Twenties

Noble Experiment

National prohibition of alcohol- arguments, people who supported believed that it would leave people to poverty because men were drinking instead of fam needs, accidents in the workplace, absenteeism.

Amelia Earhart

1st woman to fly across the Atlantic without stopping.

Marriage

was based on romantic love, women managed household & finances, and children and women were not considered laborers /wage earners but rather developing children who needed nurturing and education.

Organized Crime flourishes-

mafia grows in strength.

FOrdism

assembly- line production and efficiency to standardize cars.

Flappers

minority modern women of the 1920s- young, rebellious (rebelling typical gender roles), fun- loving, and bold- short hair, short dresses (to the knees), more makeup (esp.

Fundamentalists

believed in the literal truth of the bible.

Claude McKay

through her works, celebrated peasant life in Jamaica, and poems that protested racial and economic inequalities.

Religion in AMerica

catholicism, Judaism, greek /russian orthodox, Atheist.

Jeanette Rankin

First woman elected to Congress (1916)- served throughout the 1920s → predates for 19th amendment → number of states already gave women the right to vote.

Bolshevism

Essence was that Marx and Angels break the world down into two types of people: The haves (bourgeoise) and the have nots (proletariat):