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Cultural Changes in the 1920s
How Did Women's Attitudes Change Society in the 1920s?
Women found their lives changed in more than appearance, however. Society now accepted that women could be independent and make choices for themselves in education, jobs, marital status, and careers. Women's spheres had broadened to include public as well as home life.
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A woman of 1920 would be surprised to know that she would be remembered as a “new woman.” Many changes would enter her life in the next ten years.
Significant changes for women took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education.
Some were the results of laws passed, many resulted from newly developed technologies, and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society.
Urban women found that electricity and plumbing made housework different, and often easier, with electrically run vacuum cleaners, irons, and washing machines.
Electricity meant that people could stay up later at night, because electric lights were more efficient than kerosene lamps and candles.
Indoor plumbing brought water inside and introduced a new room to clean-the bathroom.
Marilyn Monroe was a very famous icon during this years and she was an example of women having economic position and opportunities
How Did Banning Alcohol Affect Life in the 1920s?
Though the advocates of prohibition had argued that banning sales of alcohol would reduce criminal activity, it in fact directly contributed to the rise of organized crime. After the Eighteenth Amendment went into force, bootlegging, or the illegal distillation and sale of alcoholic beverages, became widespread.
Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919 and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce.
What Role Did the Harlem Renaissance Play in the Cultural Changes of the 1920s?
he movement is considered to have begun about 1918 and continued to 1937. Its most productive period was in the 1920s, as the movement's vitality suffered during the Great Depression (1929–39). Although the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance survived into the 1930s, Arna Bontemps's debut novel, God Sends Sunday (1931), is generally considered the last book of the movement.
He is an icon of this time , he sing the song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD which is one my favorite songs , he represent the harlem renassaince because have jazz in every note and he was reconogized to bring any race especially negros or black people of that time
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How Did Popular Culture Change During the 1920s?
Jazz music became wildly popular in the “Roaring Twenties,” a decade that witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the United States. Consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.
This movie will be an example of Us and Americans having changes during 1920, Tiana started to have her money and she constructed her own restaurant but also talking about Music JAZZ was sounding in every street which was New Orleans
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By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 17, 1920. On October 28, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
