Talk:US History/Roaring Twenties and Prohibition

Did the suffragists play a role in the prohibition law?

Suffrage and the 1920s
I disagree with the placement of the Women's Suffrage movement in the chapter beginning in 1920 because the Nineteenth Amendment (which is all the section about women currently covers here) was officially ratified with Tennessee in June of 1920. I believe this section should be placed in the last chapter (which spans the primary period of the movement), or, at the very least, put the official ratification at the very beginning of the section on women in this chapter.

The big deal about many, though not most, women in the 1920s was the flapper. They began a revolution among women, and I believe that should be covered far more than the suffrage movement in this chapter.

-- Lord Mardicia

There's too much material about Germany
Why is there so much information about Germany here? It's American history, not the "History Channel". Too many history buffs are closet Nazis. If there's any German content to add, it's about the German-American ethnic community, it's relation to the Midwest, and Americanization policies. That relates to the rise of the KKK and African Americans. The 1920s was the Great Migration, when African Americans migrated from the South to the North and West, to escape the poverty of sharecropping and oppression of Jim Crow. There was also a tide of anti-Asian nativism that culminated in stopping of immigration from Asia. There should also be a discussion of isolationism after WW1

Also, the Prohibition movement and the Suffrage movement were related - leading Suffragists were leaders in the Prohibition movement, and they allied with secular womens' groups. There was a huge morality movement, and it was led by women. How can one discuss prohibition without the WCTU?

The Henry Ford stuff should be expanded. The development of the assembly line was a significant change. Until Ford, cars were produced by groups of workers acting as craftsmen. Ford reduced the skill required to assemble the car, and hired less skilled farm boys to work in the factories.

The Roaring 20s were not only a period of prosperity and technology -- it was also the formation of a bubble economy built on speculation and overvalued real estate and easy credit, and this led to the Great Depression.

Re: Revivalism
This was actually a long-ranging topic. The Five Fundamentals (the basis for Fundamentalism) were formulated in the 1890s. Amee Semple MacPherson and Billy Sunday had begun their careers in the Teens. It's possible that tabloids and radio increased the visibility of the revival movement (and tent meetings gained electric lighting and amplification), but there was actually a decline in activity. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 14:14, 8 November 2014 (UTC)