PPT-Women’s Rights & Prohibition

Objective Explain the Temperance movement and how women won the right to vote Temperance Movement a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol During the industrial revolution workers would typically come to . Reasons for the prohibition are given along with suggestions for establishing or reviewing a policy Recommendations are given for properly wording a facial hair policy and the issue of facial hair on female workers is also addressed Figure 1 short O Katie Wood. Governance Coordinator,. Amnesty International. Australia. About Amnesty International. Global movement with 2.8 million supporters in more than 150 countries. We campaign to end grave abuses of human rights wherever they occur. 1920s economy. By 1924, the economy recovers and there is a lot less discontent in society. Canada enters a period of post-war prosperity. People begin to have money in their pockets again to spend on luxuries . The Jazz Age, The Harlem Renaissance and a Booming Economy. America after WWI . With American blood spilled, according to most Americans, at the fault of Europe, Americans focused their interests inward.. Padmini. Murthy MD,MPH,MS, CHES. Asst Prof Dept of Health Policy and Management. Asst Prof Dept Family and Community Medicine Global Health Program Director NYMC. Medical Women's International Association Representative to the United Nations . 1920-1933. Passed by the 18. th. Amendment. Growth of criminal organizations. America’s problems blamed on alcohol . Prohibition. 18. th. Amendment – January 17. th. , 1920. Section . 1..  After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.. Introductory Information for . The Great Gatsby. What is Prohibition?. The 18. th. Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.. The Volstead Act . (The law that accompanied the amendment.). Ratified on January 16, 1919. The U.S. went dry on January 17, 1920.. . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. USHC 6.2. Explain the causes and effects of the social change and conflict between traditional and modern culture that took place during the 1920s, including the role of women, the “Red Scare”, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial. . Introduction. Quote. : “American women were transformed after World War I. They seemed to embody the changes going on in the country itself. The United States went from a young industrial state that was accumulating the capital to build factories and railroads to a world power with a consumer economy that relied on its citizens to keep the boom going by borrowing money and buying homes and cars. Meanwhile, the celibate settlement house worker was replaced as a female prototype by the jazz-crazed flapper dancing the Charleston in a speakeasy. Everything that had anything to do with consumption was in style. That included drinking, smoking, and sex - for women as well as men.” -- 'America's Women, 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines' by Gail Collins. By: Jennifer, Cassandra, Viviana, and Vanesa . Ms. Madrid . Period. 2. 2-21-15. What is Prohibition?. Prohibition is a law or regulation forbidding something. In the 1920’s prohibition meant ban on the sale and production of alcohol beverages. Alcohol was a big problem during this time that caused abuse, ruined careers and ruined marriages. . read: “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors...is hereby prohibited”. EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION. Alcohol consumption went down ⅓. Alcohol related deaths declined . Decrease of arrests for drunkenness . . Prohibition . Era. “Why don’t they pass a Constitutional amendment prohibiting anyone from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on the Earth.”. “. The New Woman. ”. Women played an important role in jobs in WWI . – but they are forced out of their jobs after. “Flappers” represented changes in values. . Short hair, short skirts, heavier makeup, listened to jazz music, openly drank and smoked cigarettes. th. Amendment.. W.E.B. du Bois. W.E.B. du Bois was an African-American civil rights leader and author. A graduate of Harvard University, du Bois was a supporter of full equality for black Americans and was a co-founder of the largest civil rights organization in U.S. history – the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Unlike Booker T. Washington (another prominent leader o f the Progressive Era), who believed black should focus on .