Social Consequences Of Prohibition

The economic growth in home appliances like washing machines and vacuums directly affected women, who could become more independent and break gender barriers. Additionally, prohibition influenced gangs and smuggling, while the new innovations of the decade, mixed with black migration to the North, created culture-rich areas of music and racial pride. These social consequences began with the house innovations allowing women to have more independence, and the youth female group called the flappers suggested inappropriate suggestions that conservatives did not like. Meanwhile, women also were working for birth-control, like Margaret Sanger, and the National Women’s Party wanted to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. The …show more content…
Hard liquor was drunk by both men and women, and high alcoholic beverages were more prevalent, as well as home brew and bathtub gin for homemade alcoholic beverages. Not only did prohibition get a pushback from flappers and drinkers, but gangs also played a large role in smuggling and crime related to alcohol. Most Notoriously, in Chicago, Al Capone and his Valentine’s Day Massacre, there were murders of a rival gang. After gangsters kidnapped Charles Lindbergh’s son, the Lindbergh Law allowed the death penalty for certain interstate abductions. These outcomes represent the pull and push of conservative and radical forces as the roaring twenties continued. Lastly, the social changes for blacks occurred after many migrated to the North for the new opening jobs. There was still black american lynching, there was Jim Crow Laws, even effects in the North, but nonetheless the spread of their culture came to certain cities in the North. The jazz music from New Orleans spread to Harlem in New York City, known as the Harlem …show more content…
The social bias against immigration ended in stronger nativism after World War I, while tradition in religion was being questioned. The economic growth served as a significant segway towards communication and interconnection in America as well as women reform and independence. The prohibition movement influenced the creation of gangs and illegal alcohol creation, increasing the image of drinking and independence of the decade, and the black pride during this time conflicted against the old views of Jim Crow Laws and black suppression. Ultimately, the radical changes of the roaring twenties allowed for a split in social differences, resulting in new social standards for technology, race, gender, communication and