Women's suffrage
A long, intense struggle to secure voting rights for women.
What happened in the women's suffrage movement?
A severe, decade-long worldwide economic downturn starting in 1929.
What is the great depression?
The manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned in the United States.
What is prohibition?
A high school teacher.
Who is John Scopes?
One of the largest movements of people in United States history.
What is The Great Migration?
Began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and concluded with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920.
When did women's suffrage start and end?
Massive unemployment, with a peak of 25% in the U.S., and widespread poverty, homelessness, and hunger, leading to social unrest, family breakdowns, and even a rise in suicide.
A rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue.
What happened because of Prohibition in the 1920s?
While not a biology teacher, John Scopes agreed to be the defendant to help challenge the law, using the textbook "Hunter's Civic Biology" which included human evolution.
What was John Scopes' role?
To escape poor conditions in their original locations and to pursue economic opportunities in the cities.
Why people migrated in the 1920s?
The pursuit of natural rights and political equality, the belief that women's moral influence would improve public life, and the practical argument that women, as wage earners and citizens, were directly affected by laws and deserved a voice in their making.
The Great Depression was a severe, worldwide economic crisis that lasted from 1929 to 1939, characterized by mass unemployment, widespread poverty, and a drastic drop in industrial production and trade.
what happened in the great depression?
Questions often center on the temperance movement and the belief that alcohol was responsible for social ills like poverty, domestic violence, and declining morality
Why was Prohibition enacted?
Because he agreed to be a defendant in a test case to challenge Tennessee's Butler Act.
Why did John Scopes go to the trial?
Colorado, Kansas, Washington, Chicago, California and other states.
To which states did they migrate in the 1920s?