Ch 13 Flashcards
Prohibition
manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages are banned
Alcohol=banned
how was alcohol and drugs smuggled ?
in jugs under the legs of dresses
bootleggers
people who smuggle alcohol into the US from foreign nations
speakeasies
underground places where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally
what did prohibition do ?
generated disrespect to law and increased crime
scopes trial
fight over evolution and role of science and religion in public schools and in society
bio teacher didnt want to teach fundamentalism so he taught charles darwins theory -> got arrested -> was fined and had to teach fundamentalism
inventions in the 1920s
automobiles->polution->$roads->glass&steel industry
radio
passenger airplane
electric refrigerator
why did the amount of students attending school increase by times 7?
because the gov passed a law saying it was amndatory to go to school from 1st grade till you were 16yrs old
summer off because we would work on farms and help harvest
flappers
what did they want?
what change was made?
one of the free thinking young women who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes
wanted more acceptance like men
cultural changes- less conservative, more social
double standard
granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
fundamentalism
couldnt teach evolution because of the source of science through the bible
great migration
movement of many african americans from the south to the northern cities
why did african americans move ?
looking for jobs, paid more in the north & had more rights, less discrimination, MORE FREEDOM
where did AA establish their own neighborhood ?
harlem - NY where other AA live -> familiar with culture was supported and then accepted by others
How did african a get others to accept them ?
wrote of own experiences in poetry about the South, success in harlem, unfairtreatment (discrimination)
