Section 2 Flashcards
For nearly a century, reformers like the woman’s Christian temperance Union had worked to what?
Ban alcoholic beverages.
What did the 18th amendment do?
Banned alcoholic beverages.
What is Prohibition?
A ban on the manufacture sale and transportation of liquor anywhere in United States.
Where did some people manufacture their own alcohol?
In bathtubs.
Who were bootleggers?
People who smuggled bottles of liquor in their boots across countries.
What were illegal bars called which opened in nearly every city in time the United States?
Speak-easies.
What did Prohibition give a boost?
Organized crime.
who forced speakeasy owners to buy liquor from them and use the profits to bribe police, public officials, judges?
Gangsters.
What is repeal?
Cancellation.
Since prohibition was undermining respect for the law, many Americans called for the what of prohibition?
Repeal.
What amendment repealed the 18th amendment?
The 21st amendment.
What did the 19th amendment to?
Gave women the right to vote.
Who set up the League of Women Voters?
Carrie Chapman Catt.
What did the League of Women Voters work towards?
Educating voters and giving women the right to seven juries
Who became the nation’s first women governors?
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, and Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas.
Who noted that women still lacked many legal rights?
Alice Paul.
In many states, husband still had control over their wives what?
Earnings.
What did Alice Paul propose which stated that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex?”
Equal rights amendment.
Many people feared that they ERA went too far and might cause woman to loose what?
Legal protections.
Was the ERA ratified?
No.
Poor and working-class woman had long worked outside the home as what?
Factory workers and maids.
In the 1920s, they were joined by middle-class women who went to work as what?
Teachers, typist, secretaries, and clerks.
Women began to buy ready-made what instead of selling for the family?
Clothes.
What made housework easier and encourage women to spend even more time on housework?
New electric appliances.
The model T Ford car dropped from $850 to what?
$290.
Did Americans have to be rich to buy a car?
No.
What other industries did car sales spur the growth of?
Steer, tires, paint, and oil.
States and towns paved roads and buillt what?
Highways.
What sprang up across the country due to the model T Ford car?
Gas stations, garages, car dealers, motels, and roadside restaurants.
What was a suburb?
Communities located outside of the city.
What else did women insist on doing?
Driving.
What did cars bring rural people closer to?
towns, shops, and movies.
The automobile played a role in creating a new national what?
Mass culture.
The automobile helped people from different parts the country do what?
Learn about one another.
What did rising wages and labor saving appliances give families?
More money to spend and more leisure time in which to spend it.
What was the country’s first radio station where did it broadcast?
The KDKA broadcasted in Pittsburgh.
Each night after dinner, families gathered together around the radio to listen to what?
Comedies, westerns, classical music, jazz, news reports, and sport broadcasts.
What was the movie capital of the world?
Hollywood.
What did movies contribute to?
Mass culture.
What types of movies did Americans go to once a week?
Westerns, romances, adventures, and comedies.
The first movies didn’t have sound so the audience followed the plot by reading what?
Title cards.
