THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The writings of Zora Neale Hurston.
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
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The KKK and nativists threatening African Americans and immigrants.
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Women fighting for and gaining the right to vote.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle-victory took decades of agitation and protest.
Detailed explanation-2: -The decade kicked off with passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave white women the vote. Women also joined the workforce in increasing numbers, participated actively in the nation’s new mass consumer culture, and enjoyed more freedom in their personal lives.
Detailed explanation-3: -What happened to the women’s rights movement of the 1920s after it earned the right to vote? It declined because it had achieved its main goal. What can an increase in the power of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s be attributed to?
Detailed explanation-4: -They also weren’t allowed to vote. By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists.