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W O M E N
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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!
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Women & Women
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Traditional – soft-spoken, motherly, reserved. The Flapper – embraced new fashions and urban attitudes. The “emancipated” woman.
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The Fox Trot
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The Charleston
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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.
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Religion: Protestantism
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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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Resistance
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Speakeasies – underground/hidden saloons and nightclubs for alcohol. Bootleggers – smugglers who brought alcohol from Canada, Cuba, West Indies.
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21 st Amendment – December 5, 1933 repeals the 18 th Amendment.
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