The Role Of Prohibition In The 1920's
The Great War was known after its participation in the conflagration, the american was ready to concentrate on domestic affairs (a “return to normalcy,” as 1920 presidential candidate Warren Harding called it) and to turn inward. During the 1920s until the Great Depression of the next decade private concerns preoccupied most americans. 1920s a decade of optimism and 1930s is a decade of depression.
American people were creating new way of living by thrusting forces in 1920s. Whereas stock market crashed initiated a long economic decline that accelerated into a world catastrophe the depression of 1930s. The hard-surfaced road and automobile produced mobility and a blurring of the traditional rural-urban split. The motion pictures and radio …show more content…
The adoption of prohibition in 1919 (with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment) had been a victory of Yankee moral values over those of immigrants, but now many of the great cities practically ignored the measure. In 1919-20 the russian revolution of 1917 and the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic sent a Red Scare Shivering through the country. During 1930s a new era commenced in American history, one in which a social democratic order similar to that of Western European countries appeared. The federal government experienced a vast expansion i its authority especially over the economy under Roosevelt. He had a strong sense of community. In addition, he distrusted unchecked individualism and sympathized with suffering people, he sought to save capitalism. Roosevelt’s first task was recovery. In the first New Deal (1933-35) he attempted to muster a spirit of emergency and rally all interests behind a common effort in which something was provided for everybody. For the collapse the excessive competition and production were blamed. Consequently, business owner and farmers were allowed to cooperate establishing prices that would provide them a profitable return and make an upward turn under the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment
American people were creating new way of living by thrusting forces in 1920s. Whereas stock market crashed initiated a long economic decline that accelerated into a world catastrophe the depression of 1930s. The hard-surfaced road and automobile produced mobility and a blurring of the traditional rural-urban split. The motion pictures and radio …show more content…
The adoption of prohibition in 1919 (with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment) had been a victory of Yankee moral values over those of immigrants, but now many of the great cities practically ignored the measure. In 1919-20 the russian revolution of 1917 and the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic sent a Red Scare Shivering through the country. During 1930s a new era commenced in American history, one in which a social democratic order similar to that of Western European countries appeared. The federal government experienced a vast expansion i its authority especially over the economy under Roosevelt. He had a strong sense of community. In addition, he distrusted unchecked individualism and sympathized with suffering people, he sought to save capitalism. Roosevelt’s first task was recovery. In the first New Deal (1933-35) he attempted to muster a spirit of emergency and rally all interests behind a common effort in which something was provided for everybody. For the collapse the excessive competition and production were blamed. Consequently, business owner and farmers were allowed to cooperate establishing prices that would provide them a profitable return and make an upward turn under the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment