U5L2 Social Change Flashcards
Did the prohibition ban work?
In fact, the ban did have some positive effects. Alcoholism declined during Prohibition. However, in the end, the ban did not work.
How did people get around the Prohibition ban?
Some people manufactured their own alcohol in homemade stills. Others smuggled in liquor from Canada and the Caribbean.
Who were bootleggers? Why were they called that?
People who smuggled liquor
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Because these smugglers sometimes hid bottles of liquor in their boots, they became known as bootleggers.
What were speakeasies?
Illegal bars
Where were speakeasies?
in nearly every city and town
What where the jobs of the “g-man”?
To enforce the ban, the government sent out federal Prohibition agents. These “g-men” traveled across the United States, shutting down speakeasies, breaking up illegal stills, and stopping smugglers.
How did prohibition give a huge boost to organized crime?
Every speakeasy needed a steady supply of liquor. Professional criminals, or gangsters, took over the job of meeting this need. As bootleggers earned big profits, crime became a big business. Gangsters divided up cities and forced speakeasy owners in their “territories” to buy liquor from them. Sometimes, gangsters used some of their profits to bribe police officers, public officials, and judges.
True of False.
By the mid-1920s, almost half of all federal arrests were for Prohibition-related crimes.
True
As the prohibition went on, what happened?
Gradually, more Americans began to think that Prohibition was a mistake.
How did the 18th amendment, which banned alcohol, end?
By the end of the decade, many Americans were calling for the repeal, or ending, of Prohibition. In 1933, the states ratified the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
What did the 19th amendment do?
It gave woman the right to vote
Woman did not vote in groups like some people expected, how did they vote?
Like normal people?-
What the book says:
Women did not vote as a group, however, as some people had predicted. Like men, some women voted for Republicans, and some for Democrats, and many did not vote at all.
What did Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National Woman Suffrage Association, set up?
The League of Woman Voters
What did the League of Woman Voters do?
The organization worked to educate voters, as it does today. It also worked to guarantee other rights, such as the right of women to serve on juries.
Who were the two first woman governors?
1924
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas
Women in Puerto Rico asked if they now had the right to vote. They were told that they did not. What did the do?
Led by Ana Roqué de Duprey, an educator and writer, Puerto Rican women crusaded for the vote. In 1929, their crusade finally succeeded.
Alice Paul, who had been a leading suffragist, pointed out that women still lacked many legal rights. What are some examples of some?
Many professional schools still barred women, and many states gave husbands legal control over their wives’ earnings
What amendment did Alice Paul proposed?
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
What did the Equal Rights Amendment call for?
equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex
Why were some woman against the ERA?
Some argued that women would lose legal safeguards, such as laws that protected them in factories.
What did Paul’s efforts for the ERA do?
Paul worked hard for the ERA until her death in 1977. The amendment passed in Congress but was never ratified by the states.
How did were woman jobs affected after WW1?
During World War I, thousands of women had worked outside the home for the first time. They filled the jobs of men who had gone off to war. When the troops came home, many women were forced to give up their jobs. Still, some remained in the workforce. For some women, working outside the home was nothing new. Poor women and working-class women had been cooks, servants, and seamstresses for many years. In the 1920s, they were joined by middle-class women who worked as teachers, typists, secretaries, and store clerks. A few women even managed to become doctors and lawyers despite discrimination.
How did life as home change for woman?
More of them bought ready-made clothes than sewed for the whole family as they had done in the past. Electric appliances such as refrigerators, washers, irons, and vacuum cleaners made housework easier. On the other hand, such conveniences also encouraged some women to spend even more time on housework. Women who worked outside the home found that they had to work a second shift when they came home. Most husbands expected their wives to cook, clean, and care for children even if they held full-time jobs.
Which amendment banned alcohol in the United States?
the 18th Amendment
