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1920s Popular Culture
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1920s Popular Culture
Women in the 1920s
Prohibition
- women walked away from the normal Victorian roles that they had previously played and "new women" emerged
- In 1920, the 18th Amendment went into affect
+ made the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal
+ drinking alcohol was not illegal
-most prominent change was the increase of women in public
+ drove, placed sports, went to college
+ more job opportunities
~ teachers, nurses, social workers (with college degree)
~ factory laborers, office secretaries, store clerks
What can you tell about this picture? What may be the purpose of the sign?
- Flappers
+ voted
+ drank
+ danced
+ cut hair and wore make-up
+ wore provocative clothing.
- Supports felt it would promote morality and health
+ many women's groups supported
- More people did NOT support prohibition than people that did
Prohibition
Analyze the Primary Document
Question
- Many illegal ways around prohibition
+ doctors wrote perceptions
+ before law went into effect, people stocked up on alcohol
REFLECT
OBSERVE
- What do you wonder about...
+ Who?
+ What?
+ When?
+ Where?
+ Why?
+ How?
-Why do you think this image was made/taken?
-When do you think it was made/taken?
-Who do you think was the audience for this image?
-What can you learn from examining this image?
-If someone made this today, what would be different? What would be the same?
- Describe what you see.
+ What do you notice first?
+ What is the physical setting?
+ What people and objects are shown?
+ What words do you see?
+What other details can you see?
- New form of organize crime arose from gangsters
+ hired rumrunners to sneak in rum from the Carribean
+ hijack whiskey from Canada
+ buy from homemade distilleries
- Gangsters created secret bars called speakeasies
+ disguise with legal businesses
+ similar to today's clubs: jazz music and dancing
+ for every legal saloon before prohibition, there were 6 illegal saloons after
When you are done analyzing, write a caption that you thing would go along with each primary document.
- Al Capone
+ most famous gangster during the 1920s
+ began running Chicago's organized crime at the age of 26
+ killed dozens of people personally and hundreds through workers
+ In 1931, sentences to 11 years in prison for tax evasion
+ In 1939, Capone was let out of jail on parole
+ In 1947, died at his home of cardiac arrest
~ suffered from syphilis for many years
~ had a stroke before his death as well
- Prohibition repealed in 1933