1. Social Movements

2. Prohibition 18th Amendment(1920)
banned the making or selling of alcohol

3. Why did prohibition fail?
Some people made their own illegal liquor known as moonshine.

4. Moonshine still, 1920’s

5. A man stands next to a still looking at the contents of a glass
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.

6. Why did prohibition fail?
Rum Runners smuggled in liquor from Canada and the Caribbean.

7. Why did prohibition fail?
Speakeasies, or illegal bars, opened throughout the nation.
Bootleggers carried flasks of alcohol in their boots

9. Why did prohibition fail?
Prohibition encouraged gangsters, such as Al Capone, to smuggle liquor.

10. Why did Prohibition fail?
The Twenty-first Amendment repealed prohibition in 1933.

11. Women's Rights 19th Amendment (1920) gave women the right to vote.
Huge success for the Progressives & Muckrakers:
Journalists who wrote exposed the evils in American Society.

12. Women’s Rights Women increasingly worked outside of the home.
They also pushed social standards
Refused to marry
Sought higher education
Drank
Smoked
Wore revealing clothes
flappers

13. Women’s Rights
Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared her independence from traditional rules.

14. Women’s Rights 1) short, bobbed hair 2) bright-red lipstick
3) short skirts

15. Video: Flappers – 1920’s
(6:24)

16. Harlem Renaissance

17. Harlem Renaissance Very influential in Harlem, New York
Flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
Poetry
Music
Art
Fashion
Dancing

18. Jazz Age
Jazz music was created by African- Americans and combined African rhythms and European harmonies.
Ex.) Louis Armstrong was one of the first famous jazz musicians of the 1920’s.

19. Harlem Renaissance .
For some African- Americans 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 re- settle in a new nation in Africa.