AMERICAS GRADUAL BUT STEADY GROWTH SINCE 1865-1929 (MKN)

  • 14th Ammendment

    14th Ammendment
    Citizenship rights and equal protection for all
  • womens suffrage

    womens suffrage
    Susan. B. Anthony and Alice Paul among others rose in fight for women's right to vote. The congress later came to pass the 19th amendment which prohibited voters’ discrimination on basis of sex
  • progressivism

    progressivism
    Progressives believed that it was only through the democratic system of Government that the citizens needs could be addressed and their voice be heard
  • movies

    movies
    Americans got more time after World War 1 to engage in other leisure activities such as going to the movie theaters. As a result, in 1920s the movie industry grew fast moving from New York to a small village in Hollywood, Southern California
  • permissive era

    permissive era
    with the new culture of jazz music, young men and women became more permissive in the dressings and behavior leading to popularization of contraception.
  • 13th ammendment

    13th ammendment
    slavery is abolished