Question

(HURRY 25 POINTS!!1!)

How did Prohibition and the changing role of religion affect American life during the 1920s?

How did American society change in the 1920s?

What drew African Americans north during the Great Migration?

How did new economic policies lead to the rise of consumerism and credit in the 1920s?

How did the beginning of the Great Depression affect Americans’ lives?

What were the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl?

How did the New Deal address the problems of the Great Depression?

How did the Second New Deal attempt to lift the economy out of the Great Depression?

Answer 1

Question 1. and 2.) The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, and went into effect one year later, on January 17, 1920. The Eighteenth Amendment reflected the Progressives’ faith in the federal government’s ability to fix social problems. Because the law did not specifically outlaw the consumption of alcohol, however, many US citizens stockpiled personal reserves of beer, wine, and liquor before the ban took effect.

Though the advocates of prohibition had argued that banning sales of alcohol would reduce criminal activity, it in fact directly contributed to the rise of organized crime. After the Eighteenth Amendment went into force, bootlegging, or the illegal distillation and sale of alcoholic beverages, became widespread. Al Capone was the most notorious of the prohibition-era gangsters who made their fortunes from the illegal distillation and sale of alcohol. Many law enforcement agencies simply lacked the resources to consistently and effectively enforce prohibition.