U5L2 Social Change

Question 1

Did the prohibition ban work?

Answer 1

In fact, the ban did have some positive effects. Alcoholism declined during Prohibition. However, in the end, the ban did not work.

Question 2

How did people get around the Prohibition ban?

Answer 2

Some people manufactured their own alcohol in homemade stills. Others smuggled in liquor from Canada and the Caribbean.

Question 3

Who were bootleggers? Why were they called that?

Answer 3

People who smuggled liquor
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Because these smugglers sometimes hid bottles of liquor in their boots, they became known as bootleggers.

Question 4

What were speakeasies?

Answer 4

Illegal bars

Question 5

Where were speakeasies?

Answer 5

in nearly every city and town

Question 6

What where the jobs of the “g-man”?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

How did prohibition give a huge boost to organized crime?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

True of False.

By the mid-1920s, almost half of all federal arrests were for Prohibition-related crimes.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

As the prohibition went on, what happened?

Answer 9

Gradually, more Americans began to think that Prohibition was a mistake.

Question 10

How did the 18th amendment, which banned alcohol, end?

Answer 10

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 In 1933, the states ratified the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.

Question 11

What did the 19th amendment do?

Answer 11

It gave woman the right to vote

Question 12

Woman did not vote in groups like some people expected, how did they vote?

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

What did Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National Woman Suffrage Association, set up?

Answer 13

The League of Woman Voters

Question 14

What did the League of Woman Voters do?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Who were the two first woman governors?

1924

Answer 15

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas

Question 16

Women in Puerto Rico asked if they now had the right to vote. They were told that they did not. What did the do?

Answer 16

Led by Ana Roqué de Duprey, an educator and writer, Puerto Rican women crusaded for the vote. In 1929, their crusade finally succeeded.

Question 17

Alice Paul, who had been a leading suffragist, pointed out that women still lacked many legal rights. What are some examples of some?

Answer 17

Many professional schools still barred women, and many states gave husbands legal control over their wives’ earnings

Question 18

What amendment did Alice Paul proposed?

Answer 18

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Question 19

What did the Equal Rights Amendment call for?

Answer 19

equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex

Question 20

Why were some woman against the ERA?

Answer 20

Some argued that women would lose legal safeguards, such as laws that protected them in factories.

Question 21

What did Paul’s efforts for the ERA do?

Answer 21

Paul worked hard for the ERA until her death in 1977. The amendment passed in Congress but was never ratified by the states.

Question 22

How did were woman jobs affected after WW1?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

How did life as home change for woman?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Which amendment banned alcohol in the United States?

Answer 24

the 18th Amendment

Question 25

Why did many Americans call for a repeal of Prohibition?

Answer 25

They believed it was a mistake because it never stopped drinking and undermined respect for the law.

Question 26

What were women first allowed to do in November 1920?

Answer 26

Vote

Question 27

What sparked the auto boom?

Answer 27

The low prices

Question 28

Why was the Model T significant?

Answer 28

It was the start in the car boom.
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By 1924, the cost of a Model T had dropped from $850 to $290. As a result, an American did not have to be rich to buy a car. Car prices fell because factories became more efficient.

Question 29

How was General Motors different from other car companies?

Answer 29

In 1927, General Motors passed Ford as the top automaker. Unlike Ford, General Motors sold cars in a variety of models and colors.

Question 30

Why did Ford change its model to be colored cars?

Answer 30

When General Motors introduced a low-priced car available in different colors, Ford lost many customers. Faced with the success of General Motors, he changed his mind. His next car, the Model A, came in different colors. Soon, car companies were offering new makes and models every year.

Question 31

How did car sales spur growth in other parts of the economy?

Answer 31

Tens of thousands of people worked in steel mills, producing metal used in cars. Others made tires, paint, and glass for cars. Some drilled for oil in the Southwest or worked in the oil refineries where crude petroleum was converted into usable gasoline.

Question 32

How did the car boom help cities?

Answer 32

States and cities paved more roads and built new highways. In 1925, the Bronx River Parkway in New York was the first of many highways in parklike settings. Gas stations, car dealers, motels, and roadside restaurants sprang up across the country to serve the millions who traveled by car.

Question 33

How did the car boom influence suburbs?

Answer 33

Many city dwellers wanted to escape crowded conditions. They moved to nearby towns in the country, which soon grew into suburbs. A suburb is a community located outside a city. With cars, suburban families could drive to the city even though it was many miles away.

Question 34

How did the car boom break a barrier between woman and men?

Answer 34

Another major shift came when suburban housewives refused to be confined to the passenger seat. Instead, they took their place behind the wheels of their own automobiles.

Question 35

How did cars help culture spread?

Answer 35

By making travel easier, cars helped Americans from different parts of the country learn more about one another. They played a role in creating a new national culture that crossed state lines.

Question 36

What is the definition of mass culture?

Answer 36

Mass culture is the set of values and practices that arise from watching the same movies, listening to the same music, and hearing the same news reports as others around the nation.

Question 37

What was the country’s first radio station?

Answer 37

KDKA

Question 38

What was “Roxy and His Gang” and “Jack Frost’s Melody Moments”.

Answer 38

Each night after dinner, families gathered around the radio to tune in to shows such as “Roxy and His Gang” or “Jack Frost’s Melody Moments.” Radio listeners enjoyed comedies and westerns, classical music and jazz, news reports and play-by-play sports broadcasts.

Question 39

How were movies different back then?

Answer 39

The first movies had no sound. Audiences followed the plot by reading “title cards” that appeared on the screen. A pianist played music that went with the action.

Question 40

How was the most popular actor in the 1900s?

Answer 40

The most popular star of all was comedian Charlie Chaplin, nicknamed “The Little Tramp.” In his tiny derby hat and baggy pants, Chaplin presented a comical figure. His attempts to triumph over the problems of everyday life moved audiences to both laughter and tears.

Question 41

What sparked the auto boom?

Answer 41

Low prices

Question 42

Where were people moving during the auto boom?

Answer 42

Suburbs

Question 43

What changes in the 1920s gave people more money and time for leisure activities?

Answer 43

rising wages and labor saving appliances