The 1920's was a time of great change, because the economy boomed, but for more Americans prices fell, resulting in a higher standard of living and dramatic increase in consumer consumption. Although most women's lives were not radically transformed by "Labor saving" young Americans women change the way they dressed those changes were encouraged by the new mass media that included radio and motions pictures.
The 1920's were filled with hardship for immigrants, these years brought legislation changes and showcased the racism and hatred of people and F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrated this in his novel "The Great Gatsby" Between 1880 and 1920 more than 25 million foreigners immigrated to America. These people were know as the new immigrated to America such as Italian, Jews and Slavs however, not too many of them stayed mainly the young men immigrated in hopes that they could earn more money that they would in their own country. Between 50% and 80% of the immigrants ended up moving back to their homeland. Only the Irish and the Jewish stayed due to religious persecution, political oppression, and economic privation that was occurring at their homeland. Quote # 1 - The immigration make a great change in the culture in America because it make that many people from different countries come to America to stablished with his families and make fortune in the land of opportunities even in the actuality the land of opportunity is known for many people who want to immigrated to America and obtain a opportunity to establish here. And made a little of fortune like the people that came in the 20's.
During the prohibition, the manufactured, transportation, import and export and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, to reduce social problems, and lower taxes, they needed to support prisons and poor houses, and to improve health in America. Instead, alcohol became more dangerous to consume, courts and prisons systems became overloaded;
On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for their first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right. And the campaign was not easy. Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. On August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, all American women and declaring for the first time that they like men deserve all the rights, responsibilities of citizenship. The campaign for women suffrage began in the earnest in the decades before before the Civil War. Many American women were beginning to chafe against what historians have called the "Cult Of True Womanhood" that was the idea that the only "True" woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family.
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