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The Roaring 20s Read and Notes (784 – 793). The Automobile  Henry Ford Founder of Ford Motor Company Model T Assembly Line High worker pay “They can.

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1 The Roaring 20s Read and Notes (784 – 793)

2 The Automobile  Henry Ford Founder of Ford Motor Company Model T Assembly Line High worker pay “They can have any color as long as it is black”  Impacts Paved Roads Hotels Gas Stations / Service Centers Route 66

3 Commercialism and Thrift  Electrical Conveniences Washing Machine Washing Machine Radio Radio Vacuum Cleaner Vacuum Cleaner Sewing Machine Sewing Machine Refrigerator Refrigerator  Impacts Modern Advertising Modern Advertising Thrift Stores Thrift Stores Installments “Buying on Time” Installments “Buying on Time”

4 Radio’s growth

5 Advertising

6 Advertising

7 Advertising

8 Women Suffrage Prior to XIX Amendment  Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton First Women’s Movement Convention  Susan B. Anthony Attempts to vote in 1872 Gets Arrested Unfair trial is found guilty  Carrie Chapman Catt Applied Pressure to pass the 19 th Amendment in 1920 “No Taxation without representation”

9 Women’s Suffrage Resistance  Industrialists Paying women small wages Children working conditions  Men Women belong in the home Politics is messy they are to nice  Women Women should be subordinate it is what the Bible states Who will be taking care of children the family will break apart

10 Women’s Suffrage Passing the 19 th Amendment  1918 – Woodrow Wilson Announced his support  (Jan) Passed House  (Oct) Failed in Senate  National Women’s Party Called for the ousting of anti-suffrage senators in election of 1918  Congress Pro-suffrage Passes 1919  Thirty – Six States Ratify in 1919 and is law in 1920

11 Women’s Suffrage After the 19 th Amendment  Women first voted in Election of 1920  Warren Harding won the presidency  Young women also started a social change

12 The Flappers  Short Skirts (Up to Knees)  Smoked Cigs  Danced to Jazz  Hard Liquor  Slang  Bobbed Hair  Petting Parties

13 Why so difficult to enforce? 1.) The US is BIG -18,700 miles of coastline/border -Legal in neighboring nations

14 2.) Loop holes - “Medical” alcohol - “Sacramental” alcohol - “Near” Beer

15 This fascinating back-label for Lengfeld's Pharmacy in San Francisco has the doctor's name, the patient's name and address and the "article" is described as "wine." In the line for "Directions" it's written: "Wineglass as needed."

16 3.) Alcohol, key part of the immigrant culture -Italian-German-Irish

17 4.) Underfunding -Only 3000 agents -Agents salary was $2,500 -Led to bribes/mass corruption/organized crime

18 Elliot Ness -FBI agent -Chicago - “The Untouchables”

19 The Effects 1.)Bootlegging - making and smuggling alcohol

20 2.)Speakeasies = secret bars

21 3.) Organized crime and corruption -Large profits attract gangsters -Violence as gangs compete - Bribed police, judges and politicians St. Valentines Day Massacre 1929

22 Al “Scarface” Capone  Chicago  By 1927 earning $60 million a year from bootlegging.  Responsible for over 500 murders

23 Repeal 21 st Amendment  Repealed prohibition  Dec. 1932

24 ‘Today looks like a good day for a beer.’ - President Franklin D. Roosevelt


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