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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.

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1 W O M E N

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3 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!

4 Women & Women

5 Traditional – soft-spoken, motherly, reserved. The Flapper – embraced new fashions and urban attitudes. The “emancipated” woman.

6 The Fox Trot

7 The Charleston

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9 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.

10 Religion: Protestantism

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12 Eighteenth Amendment – January 16 th, 1919 outlaws the sale, transportation, importation, exportation, of intoxicating liquors. Backed by:  Church: Protestant  Rural South & West  Women  KKK

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14 Resistance

15 Speakeasies – underground/hidden saloons and nightclubs for alcohol. Bootleggers – smugglers who brought alcohol from Canada, Cuba, West Indies.

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18 21 st Amendment – December 5, 1933 repeals the 18 th Amendment.


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