•18th Amendment(1920)
• banned the making or
selling of alcohol
 Some
people made their own illegal liquor
known as moonshine.
Moonshine still, 1920’s
A man stands next to a still looking at the contents of a glass.
The photo was taken by the Treasury Department sometime
between 1921 and 1932.
Rum
Runners
smuggled in
liquor from
Canada and
the
Caribbean.
•Speakeasies,
or illegal bars,
opened
throughout the
nation.
•Bootleggers
carried flasks
of alcohol in
their boots
•Prohibition encouraged gangsters, such
as Al Capone, to smuggle liquor.
 The
Twenty-first
Amendment
repealed prohibition
in 1933.
•19th Amendment
(1920) gave women
the right to vote.
•Huge success for
the Progressives &
Muckrakers:
•Journalists who
wrote exposed
the evils in
American
Society.
•Women increasingly
worked outside of the home.
•They also pushed social
standards
•Refused to marry
•Sought higher education
•Drank
•Smoked
•Wore revealing clothes
•flappers
Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared
her independence from traditional rules.
 1)
short,
bobbed hair
 2) bright-red
lipstick
 3) short skirts
Video: Flappers – 1920’s
(6:24)
 Very
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influential in Harlem, New York
Flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
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Poetry
Music
Art
Fashion
Dancing
 Jazz
music was
created by AfricanAmericans and
combined African
rhythms and
European harmonies.
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Ex.) Louis Armstrong
was one of the first
famous jazz musicians
of the 1920’s.
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For some AfricanAmericans it was a
chance to return to their
roots
 Marcus Garvey formed
the Universal Negro
Improvement Association
(UNIA) and promoted
pride and unity among
African-Americans
 He also encouraged
African –Americans to resettle in a new nation in
Africa.
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