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Frances willard
The most outspoken voices of the temperance movement.
Significant contribution:she elected as president, Willard advocated women's right suffrage, prison reform for women's 8 hour workday and to improve conditions in to factories.
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Eighteenth amendment
prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
Significant contribution: the work of Willard and other reformers had created efficient pressure to persuade enough states, banning the sale of alcoholic drinks.
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Henry Ford
An engineer and early automobile manufacturer.
Significant contribution: model T introduced, the first car that many class Americans could buy.
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Prohibition
Who/what: protestant reformers often saw liquor as the cause of poverty and crime.
Significant contribution :many women's organizations championed an end alcoholic drinks, would protect families, women and children from the effects of alcohol abuse.
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Eugonic
Belief in the superiority at the anglo-saxon ''race'' was common in the period.
Significant contribution: speudo-scientific beleif that the human race could be improved by breeding that superior parent would have even better children.
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Flapper
Woman's clothing ware short dresses that revealed their body shapes as well as their legs and arms.
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Immigrant Act
Designed to keep out immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
Significant contribution: laws established quotas for each separate nationality based on Americans existing ethnic composition.
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Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human.
Significant contribution: nationwide attention for pitting older religious belief against new scientific theories.
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Clarence parrow
The ramed attorney, defended scopes.
Significant contribution: export on the bible, prohibiting to seeming contradiction in the bible text.
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Twenty-first amendment
United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol.
Significant contribution: