Rachel Fortumase
A Moment in History During the Roaring Twenties, many things changed in America that were culturally defining. Women began to wear shorter dresses and indulge in more promiscuous behavior. Young people enjoyed drinking and dancing and embracing aspects of the new consumer society, and the economy grew drastically as more people migrated to cities from rural areas of the country. These were all things that would have been out of the norm a decade before, when women wore long dresses that showed little to no skin, and most people earned a living by working the land and producing everything themselves. However, as the population of cities grew larger, many people spent more time in clubs smoking and drinking. When the 18th Amendment was passed in 1929 banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of consumable alcohol, people were ready to fight it.
When Woodrow Wilson was President in 1917, he instituted a temporary prohibition on grain to conserve it for growing food during the war. With much disagreement from conservative America, the 18th amendment was brought forward that same year. Two years later, …show more content…
People began to cause riots and revolt against law enforcement. Gang warfare dominated the streets of America’s large cities. One of the biggest acts of gang violence was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In 1929, ten years after The Prohibition Act was passed, seven men were gunned down in Chicago. The men who did the killing were dressed as police men and were part of a rivalry gang. The attack was supposedly led by the notorious gangster, Al Capone, who came to a rise by taking over the streets and selling illegal alcohol to people. No one was ever brought on trial for the murder of the seven men, because the only eyewitnesses were gunned down. This was not the only gang massacres and it certainly wasn’t the last. However, it became well known because the violence was rooted in
A Moment in History During the Roaring Twenties, many things changed in America that were culturally defining. Women began to wear shorter dresses and indulge in more promiscuous behavior. Young people enjoyed drinking and dancing and embracing aspects of the new consumer society, and the economy grew drastically as more people migrated to cities from rural areas of the country. These were all things that would have been out of the norm a decade before, when women wore long dresses that showed little to no skin, and most people earned a living by working the land and producing everything themselves. However, as the population of cities grew larger, many people spent more time in clubs smoking and drinking. When the 18th Amendment was passed in 1929 banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of consumable alcohol, people were ready to fight it.
When Woodrow Wilson was President in 1917, he instituted a temporary prohibition on grain to conserve it for growing food during the war. With much disagreement from conservative America, the 18th amendment was brought forward that same year. Two years later, …show more content…
People began to cause riots and revolt against law enforcement. Gang warfare dominated the streets of America’s large cities. One of the biggest acts of gang violence was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In 1929, ten years after The Prohibition Act was passed, seven men were gunned down in Chicago. The men who did the killing were dressed as police men and were part of a rivalry gang. The attack was supposedly led by the notorious gangster, Al Capone, who came to a rise by taking over the streets and selling illegal alcohol to people. No one was ever brought on trial for the murder of the seven men, because the only eyewitnesses were gunned down. This was not the only gang massacres and it certainly wasn’t the last. However, it became well known because the violence was rooted in