Notes (3/10/17) -

After World War I, prosperity and new ideas began changing life in America

New technologies helped create a mass culture shared by millions in the worlds

developed countries.

Labor saving devices freed women from time consuming household chores. Women

pursued careers in many arenas.

Radios brought news, music, and sports into homes throughout the western world. People

were listening to the same music and using the same slang.

Migrations from the rural south to the urban north. Jazz brought blacks and whites to the

same neighborhoods and clubs. Harlem, Renaissance elevated art, poetry, and music

created by African Americans.

Fashion was less conservative and rebellious young women became Flappers. Women

began demanding equality and the right to vote.

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18th and 21st Amendment - Conservative Americans were discouraged by clubs and

drinking that a Temperance lobbied to have drinking outlawed by the 18th Amendment,

Prohibition. 1920 - 33, until it was repealed with the 21st Amendment.

19th Amendment - Women are granted the right to vote 1920.

 The United States in the Postwar Era - The country emerged from WWI in excellent

shape.

The United States stayed out of the League of Nations, However, the nation took a

leading role in international diplomacy during the 1920s.

During a Red Stone in 1919 and 1920, police rounded up suspected foreign-born

radicals and expelled a number of them form the United States.

Notes (3/17/17) -

The country emerged from WWI in excellent shape. The United States stayed out of the

League of Nations. However, the nation took a leading role in international diplomacy

during the 1920s.

During a Red Scare in 1919 and 1920, police rounded up suspected foreign-born

radicals and expected a number of them from the United States.

Congress passed laws limiting immigrants from Europe.

The 1920 stock market crash shattered American prosperity.

President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal, a massive package of economic

and social programs to help combat the Great Depression.