The Role Of Popular Culture In The 1920s
The 1920s are often described as a period that saw the expansion and shift of various cultures in the US. Popular culture blended into business culture which adopted the innovations of technological culture and so on. The end of the Great War saw most Americans wanting to return to normalcy. You can never go back, but that didn’t stop America from trying. The United States resumed its isolationist policies, going through the technological revolution and all while having fun at the same time. In 1921, to slow the flow of immigrants from war devastated Europe, Congress implemented the Emergency Quota Act and passed the Immigration Act of 1921. This reduced the overall numbers of immigrants permitted to enter the US, especially from Southern Europe. Fear of communism and the horrors of what happened in the Russian Revolution saw a witch hunt against people with
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A very vocal minority managed to achieve the near impossible and push through an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The 18th Amendment prohibited sale and manufacture of alcohol. The amendment had public popular support by churches and women and also in the South and West, where it was associated with the debauchery of Saloon life. It was a difficult law to enforce, as underpaid law enforcement were often subject to bribes or coercion. It was not a popular law with the general public so it became easy to smuggle in from Canada and American being inventive just started making their own homemade recreational beverages at home. The hay day of the Gangster came during Prohibition. Proving that Prohibition only creates demand and demand creates a market and someone will fill that market illegally or otherwise. The death toll surrounding prohibition sounds like a small war with over five hundred mobsters killed in Chicago alone. Leading much of the crime world from relative security was the popular Al
A very vocal minority managed to achieve the near impossible and push through an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The 18th Amendment prohibited sale and manufacture of alcohol. The amendment had public popular support by churches and women and also in the South and West, where it was associated with the debauchery of Saloon life. It was a difficult law to enforce, as underpaid law enforcement were often subject to bribes or coercion. It was not a popular law with the general public so it became easy to smuggle in from Canada and American being inventive just started making their own homemade recreational beverages at home. The hay day of the Gangster came during Prohibition. Proving that Prohibition only creates demand and demand creates a market and someone will fill that market illegally or otherwise. The death toll surrounding prohibition sounds like a small war with over five hundred mobsters killed in Chicago alone. Leading much of the crime world from relative security was the popular Al