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New Ways of Life

New Ways of Life. Chapter 24, Section 3. The Noble Experiment. Prohibition: a ban on making or selling alcohol anywhere in the U.S. Became law with the ratification of the 18 th Amendment Hoped ban on liquor would improve American life Alcoholism and liver disease caused by liquor declined.

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New Ways of Life

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  1. New Ways of Life Chapter 24, Section 3

  2. The Noble Experiment • Prohibition: a ban on making or selling alcohol anywhere in the U.S. • Became law with the ratification of the 18th Amendment • Hoped ban on liquor would improve American life • Alcoholism and liver disease caused by liquor declined

  3. Getting around the law • Some people made their own alcohol • Bootleggers: smuggled in millions of gallons of liquor from Canada and the Carribean • Speakeasies: illegal bars open in nearly every city • Welcomed women into their bars

  4. Gangsters • Prohibition gave a big boost to organized crime • Gangsters supplied speakeasies with liquor • Forced speakeasy owners to buy from them • Used profits to bribe police officers and judges

  5. Repeal • Every day millions of Americans broke the law to buy liquor • 1933 the 18th Amendment was repealed

  6. The New Woman • 19th Amendment: ratified in 1920 gave women the right to vote • 1920 votes helped Warren Harding win the Presidency • Carrie Chapman Catt: head of the National Women Suffrage Association set up the League of Women Voters • Women in Puerto Rico were told the new law did not apply to them • 1929 led by Ana Roque de Duprey won the right to vote

  7. Fighting for Equal Rights • Alice Paul called for an equal rights amendment. • ERA amendment states that equal rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex.” • The amendment was never passed

  8. New freedoms • During WWI women had worked outside the home for the first time • Forced to give up their jobs when the troops returned home • Life at home also changed • Electric appliances made housework easier • Women who worked outside the home found they had to do a 2nd shift after work • Husbands expected wives to cook, clean, and care for children

  9. The Movies • Families had more money, more time and were looking for new ways to have fun • Movie industry came of age • Southern California’s sunny warm climate allowed filming all year round • Hollywood became the movie capital of the world

  10. The Movies • The first movies had no sound • Audiences read title cards that appeared on screen • A pianist played music that went with the action • 1927 a talkie was produce: The Jazz Singer, a movie with a sound track

  11. A Mass Society • Movies helped create a new national culture

  12. Radio • The country’s first radio station started broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920 • 1929 more than 10 million families owned radios • Each night families gathered around the radio to tune into comedies, westerns, and mysteries as well as classical music and jazz

  13. A car culture • 1920’s Americans traveled to more places because of the automobile • City dwellers wanted to escape crowded cities so they moved to nearby town which became suburbs • Could drive to the city for school work or stores

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