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18th Amendment
Once the amendment was passed an era known as the Prohibition era began. This was when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited. People still wanted alcohol so they created illegal, underground clubs known as speakeasies. Because alcohol was still allowed for medical and religious purposes, the amount of prescription alcohol and sales of sacramental wine skyrocketed. Bootleggers, people who smuggled alcohol in from Canada and Cuba, were common. -
Jazz Music
The jazz age was another name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz- a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime. The jazz age started in New Orleans and was spread north by musicians. Some famous jazz musicians included Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong. -
Flappers
In the 1920's women began to wear short skirts, bobbed hair styles, listened to Jazz music, and had flashy life styles. Flappers wished for more women equality and did what pleased them rather then what society deemed acceptable. the Flappers wore makeup, smoked, and liked to live in the moment. they are called Flappers because of their lose clothing ( unbuckled shoes called galoshes). -
Credit
credit was developed in 1921, it is ongoing and keeps advancing. credit caused poor people to be able to buy the same things that rich people could because they could pay in small increments until it was all payed off. which ended up being a bad thing because it put people in a lot of debt. -
The Scopes Trial
A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society. The trial became an overnight national sensation.
