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How Were Women’s Roles in the Household Glorified?

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How Were Women’s Roles in the Household Glorified?

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Stacy Lubin

The glorified the role of women as homemakers (raising children) was a result of the traditional work for women decreasing.

All family members in the home used to contribute but now the work was increasingly in factories and not in cottage industries. So it became a social status and expectation that women at home do less work and more traditional homemaking

Women’s popular literature in this period was full of advice and encouragement for proper housekeeping.

Implicit in this advice is the notion that by keeping a clean, neat, pious home and filling it with warmth and inviting smells, women are achieving their highest calling.

It was viewed as women's responsibility to raise virtuous children who would continue the legacy of republican values such as loyalty, honesty, freedom, etc

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Aly Pratico

In March of 1925, it was made illegal to teach the topic of evolution to students in Tennessee.

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, pledged to defend anyone in court who challenged this new law.

The name of the trial came from a biology teacher, John T. Scopes, who decided to challenge the law at his school in Dayton, Tennessee.

Scopes was arrested after his biology class read passages from Civic Biology.

Clarence Darrow, who was the most prominent trial lawyer at the time, was hired to defend Scopes in his trial set for July of 1925.

When his trial began on July 10, 1925, it was Scope and Darrow’s goal to fight the rule against the teaching of evolution in public schools.

In the trial, Darrow grilled the special prosecutor, Jennings Bryan, with questions about the Bible and creation stories.

By the end of the trial, Scopes was found guilt and had to pay a fine of $100, and the rule against teaching evolution still stood.

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Why Were Woman’s Roles in the Household Glorified? 

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Marielle Todd

Women in the 1920’s pushed the boundaries of their 19th century values—even rejected them—in the light of their newly discovered independence and freedom.

Many women embraced the new trend of being a “flapper,” or a free thinking woman who embraces the fashions and urban attitudes of  the 1920s.

Traditionalists in churches and schools where loudly against this acceptance of women in their newfound independent, rebellious attitudes. They fought hard against woman’s acceptance of smoking and drinking, and they especially emphasized the importance of the woman’s role in the household.

With the new groundbreaking technologies of the day, chores to be done around the house were much less work than previous generations were accustomed to dealing with. This contributed to women finding themselves with more time and more ambition.

In the workplace, traditionalists also pushed back against the rise in women’s careers. By 1930, 10 million women were earning wages. Yet, not many of those women had high ranking jobs, and they almost always earned less than men.

Men and traditionalists, not wanting more competition in the workplace, argued that women should just serve as temporary workers whose real job was at home. This set a new pattern for discrimination and inequality for women in the workplace that would withstand generations.

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Marialejandra Aponte

• Many people in the twenties did not approve of the scientific and societal advancements going on in the world, especially in the United States so they resorted to religious fundamentalism.
• Fundamentalism is a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true.
• They though that because the Bible was inspired by God, all its stories in there all their details were true.
•  They rejected the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin, a theory that stated that plant and animal species had developed and changed over millions of years. They said it was unbelievable that human beings had evolved from apes.
• Fundamentalism expressed itself in several ways. In the South and West, preachers led religious revivals based on the authority of the Scriptures. One of the most powerful revivalists was Billy Sunday, a baseball player turned preacher who staged emotional meetings across the South.
• Over the years, fundamentalism gained followers who began to call for laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

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Ashton Dilts

The 18th Amendment was passed in January 1920

The amendment banned manufacturing, selling, and transporting any form of alcoholic beverage

The amendment was passed because alcohol had been the main cause of corruption for a long time

This included: crime, woman and child abuse, accidents, and many other problems

Unfortunately enforcing the new amendment was extremely hard

Salons closed their doors

Many people, after WWI, wanted to relax and enjoy life so they were angry at the passing of this amendment

Many people became smart at getting around the law

They learned how to build their own stills to distill alcohol

Many people even bought alcohol by prescription and from churches

Bootleggers also became very popular

They were people who smuggled alcohol from different countries and brought it in their boots

Prohibition also caused crime rates in nearly every city to skyrocket

Only 19 percent of the American population supported Prohibition