January 13-20

Entertainment - flagpole sitting, pez, dance marathons,football players, Charleston

Prohibition- 18th amendment, gangsters, black market, increased crime rate, 4 main reasons (national mood, practical, religious, moral), Al Capone in Chicago, Alcatraz, Died January 25, 1947.

Women- 1920's get right to vote, new woman, the traditionalists, and older generation, "New Morality", 19th amendment, WWI, Flappers, housewives, Women's Rights Movements, reform of property laws, new divorce laws, equal guardianship of children, political equality,improved working conditions, higher wages, access to higher education, Margaret Sanger founded American Birth Control League, Alice Paul

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