A Look at the Moral Crisis of the 1920s - Specifically: Prohibition, Fundamentalism, and the New Women Known as "Flappers"

After World War One was over, everyone was happy that they could go back to their country in peace. Everyone was spending, people were working, almost everyone was (relatively) happy. However, there were people that were not so happy. There were those who wanted to stop funding the Germans with the proceeds from their beer. There were those wanted the opportunity to tell differing views on creation in their classrooms. Also, most notably, there were women who were tired of being forced to be housewives and demanded to be treated as equals among the men. The crisis in values that occurred during the 1920's, as insignificant as it might seem today, forced Americans to reshape their way of thinking and make changes that left important effects on the years to come.…