18th Amendment Ratification

Moral improvement occurred when reformers wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves by improving their moral behavior (Danzer 513). A women 's group from Cleveland, the Women 's Christian Temperance Union, believed that alcohol undermined morals and led to bad behavior (Fagnilli 29). They believed the way to complete the moral goal was to make the country a “dry” country. Another prohibitionist group was the Anti Saloon League. This group endorsed politicians who supported banning alcohol, and organized state reform to try to ban alcohol.

Explain the reasons for U.S. neutrality during the 1920s and 1930s. How did ideas about neutrality change during the period from the end of World War I to the passage of the Lend-Lease Act? Be sure to include any events, terms, or people that may support your response. One of the main reasons that the U.S. was practicing neutrality during the 1920s and 1930s was because they no longer wished to be involved in Foreign wars, such as WW1. They were hoping to "return to normalcy" under the taking of office from Harding.

She uses the foil to explore how Irene and Clare experience womanhood differently and connects it to the expectations of women in the 1920s. She mainly uses motherhood and marriage to exhibit these differences in their lives based on off race. She uses motherhood to show how Clare hates being a mother because of her fear of her husband finding out she’s black through her daughter’s skin tone. Irene appreciates being a mother even though she sacrifices her own desires for it; she understands the huge responsibility that comes with being a mother and embraces it. Marriage is used to portray Clare’s fear of her husband, and it shows Irene’s insecurity in her marriage when she suspects Clare and Brian are having an affair, yet her faith in her husband when she blames herself.

This is when congress ratified the 18th Amendment. The banning of Alcohol was thought to be a solution to most problems but made them worse. The effects

This tariff was established by President John Quincy Adams to help the economy in the United States. They said it violated the constitution so they nullified it. President Jackson tried to address this issue by revising the tariff, which was the Tariff of 1832, which the residents of South Carolina thought would help them, but did nothing for them. They again nullified this tariff. What President Jackson did was he made the Force Bill which stated that the president can deploy military forces into South Carolina.

Kevin claims that Dana is his wife; Rufus squeals and says, “Niggers can’t marry white people”, “It’s against the law” (Butler 60-61). The Deep South had banned interracial marriages until 1967. Although interracial marriage was unheard of, miscegenation was common but it “often led to complications in the South. Sometimes white men loved their black concubines more than they did their white wives” (Blassingame 84). Many of the white wives would file for divorce if this happened and they would also take out their anger on the black woman involved.

The dry Era of the U.S Prohibition during the 1920s lead to an increase in violence, crime activity and other illegal activities throughout the United States. Women played a strong role in prohibition. Women saw alcohol as a destructive force in their marriage and in their families. Prohibition was passed to stop crime and violence as well as to improve the health of Americans. Prohibition banned the production , consumption and distribution of alcohol (History).

After women’s influence spread outside of the home into the public eye the women then felt it was their duty to make the world a perfect place. One of the main reform movements started by the women was the Temperance Movement, designed to moderate the use of alcohol in America. The average alcohol consumption at this time was seven gallons of pure alcohol per person in the United States, and most of this consumption was mostly credited to the men. Drinking became excessive and in many cases dangerous to the women and the children inside the home. Many Americans, mostly women, signed a contract stating they would never drink again, and they were known as Teetotalers.

She advocated for universal suffrage for white and black women and later she opposed to Frederick Douglas, who signed the Declaration of Sentiments but did not support the universal suffrage and thought that it is less important than black male suffrage. Later she started to publish a weekly newspaper Revolution jointly with Anthony and Parker Pillsbury. The Revolution according to one Connecticut journalist “is edited by two old and ugly ladies men, Mr. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Parker Pillsbury, and published by Mr. Susan B. Anthony “(Robertson, 1992:33). Stanton and Anthony were one of founders of Woman’s State Temperance Society, proposing that drunkenness of men is sufficient reason for divorce. They got

The ASL consisted mostly of women, along with a few men. There was also the rise of evangelical Protestantism, where the church proclaimed saloons and liquor corrupt and ungodly. Another group that played a large part in Prohibition, the Women Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). These groups wanted to either try to moderate drinking or totally ban it. They ended up choosing the latter.