Dbq Essay On The 1920s

Picture it: New York, 1920, automobiles filled with flappers and Jazz music flooding the streets, a new age is here. Now this setting did not always occur in the country. The women would wear modest clothing, every daily task was done by hand, social standards were set no matter your race, and drinking became a serious problem despite your age or gender. However this all came to an end during the American’s Golden Age. The 1920s was a time in the country’s history where gender was defined, industries boomed, and political problems arose. The Roaring Twenties came with a new perspective on the men and the women of the time. During the this time women chose to reinvent themselves and men took that as an advantage. Women were seen dancing on

Irregardless of the women having jobs or not, products were still being used by women of the age. Flappers have been seen having a conversation with new products and various objects in the room as if they were having a normal everyday conversation (Doc 1). At the bottom of the advertisement, it is shown that Westinghouse Electric is selling various products like the Westinghouse Iron and the Westinghouse Bell Ringer. Many different all for different uses that they feel the wealthy community can benefit from; only the Americans that have wealth can afford all of these various merchandising. Companies also made new products to reduce the amount of work for the housewives that stayed home and did housework. In Document 2, they highlight the words “Evolution,” “It is absolutely safe,” also having a large arrow point across the add with the words “SEE THAT ENGINE” written in a bubble. With the image of the motor and the faded images of how women would wash the clothes in the past and the word “Evolution” written on the advertising, persuades an individual to to buy the machine. Housewives of the time would wash clothes on a scrub board and then hang them on a clothes wire to dry, but when this washing machine was made and gave women more time to do other chores around the house while the clothes would wash themselves. Industries had the community’s best interest at heart to make machines

Prohibition was a big problem in the 1920s, so big that the people in the U.S. started comparing alcohol to water. “WATER & ALCOHOL ALIKE IN APPEARANCE DIFFERENT IN EFFECT” as well was “WATER: Necessary to Life, Benefits the Body” and “ALCOHOL: Unnecessary to Life, Injures the Body” (Doc 13). The list goes on and on, based off of the polar opposite effects alcohol has on a person's life compared to water, proving that it can only damage the human body and the environment rather than build it up. Many people in the country were opposed to the 18th amendment that supported Prohibition and its use of alcohol to people of all ages. Document 10 contains a flapper holding a sign that states “IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 18th AMENDMENT NO INTOXICATION LIQUOR ALLOWED ON THE PREMISES” with both men and women around the announcement and lighting the corners on fire with matches and lighters, along with various alcohol bottles on the table. In the act of the Prohibition Laws, people made clubs and secret societies to trafficking illegal substances throughout the country. There is still debate today on water vs alcohol and how bad it is for an individual, but they always seem to be referring to the Prohibition law crisis in the