2) Some major Innovations:
● Radio and motion picture
● Assembly line methods used by Ford
● Cheap, readily available energy sources (coal, oil) made expansion affordable ● national magazines
● Destruction of European economies during World War I left the U.S. as the only major industrial nation
● Technology allowed for expansion, particularly in the auto industry
● Fundamentalist Christians, stressing literal biblical interpretation, opposed any scientific teaching that cast doubt on veracity of scripture, particularly Genesis
● Prohibition--authorized by passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919
3)What Women gained
● Right to vote
● woman suffrage
● led to increase in women jobs and and women in college
4) 3 major events 1922
● The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made
●
Ulysses
, by
James Joyce
, is published in Paris
● Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between the United States,
United Kingdom,
Japan
,
France
and
Italy
.
● first radio
● Teapot Dome scandal
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● stock market crash
5) 18th amendment
● banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
● started the prohibition
● led to increased rate of crime
● speakseasies
● ended up getting abloished due to causing more harm than helped
6) Prohibition

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(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub. also called a blind pig or blind tiger were numerous and popular during the
Prohibition
years. it was illegal to sell, transport or manufacture "intoxicating" beverages forconsumption in the United States.
● But Prohibition didn't stop drinking; it simply pushed the consumption of booze underground. By 1925, there were thousands of speakeasy clubs
7) 3 Characteristics
● He never smoked tobacco or drank alcohol
● wit was amazing
● ability to read character
7 cont.) Jobs
● made the smuggling of uncut diamonds and narcotics a side enterprise.
● He operated one of the largest bail bond businesses in New York
● bankrolled many bootleggers and provided them with trucks and drivers to transport their illegal cargo.
● He provided money and manpower and protection
● arranged corruption – for a price. And, if things went wrong, Rothstein was ready to provide bail and attorneys
● put crime on a corporate basis when the proceeds of crime became large enough to warrant it.”
8) Elements of a Flapper, Louisse Brooks,
● showing skin with shorter skirts
● wearing shorter hair and makeup
● having a boyish figure which was stylish at the time
● drink, smoke, curse, dance, participate in petting parties, etc.
● Loisse brooks was a flapper
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