W O M E N
August 26, 1920 – Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote. July, 1848 – Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. 72 years!
Women & Women
Traditional – soft-spoken, motherly, reserved. The Flapper – embraced new fashions and urban attitudes. The “emancipated” woman.
The Fox Trot
The Charleston
Double standard – a set of principles granting greater freedom to men than to women. Traditionalists in churches and schools protest against the corruption of youth.
Religion: Protestantism
Eighteenth Amendment – January 16 th, 1919 outlaws the sale, transportation, importation, exportation, of intoxicating liquors. Backed by: Church: Protestant Rural South & West Women KKK
Resistance
Speakeasies – underground/hidden saloons and nightclubs for alcohol. Bootleggers – smugglers who brought alcohol from Canada, Cuba, West Indies.
21 st Amendment – December 5, 1933 repeals the 18 th Amendment.