what was the eigteenth amendment and how did it affect the twenties?
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The eighteenth amendment was done away with; it was about the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.  Consequently, many people made their own beer and liquor, which was called bootlegging.
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Helping you out with your homework huh?  Well I will not make it 4 or five sentences long but will give you something to think about.  \nThe impact it has on the American history is it started the rebellion against taxation and the mother country.  The second thing is that Americans decided to govern themselves and form a new government.  It also lead to no one ruler will govern America, judicial system, legislative branch and the executive branch.  It lead to a revolt and to the rights of our civil liberties.
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C. personal freedom. People, especially women felt very liberated after the end of the Edwardian era. Short skirts, short hair, they could smoke in public, drink, and vote. All these things were unheard of before the 1920's.
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The 21st Amendment is the only amendment that directly repealed another Amendment - it shows that public opinion can drastically change in a relatively short period of time.  When the 18th Amendment was adopted, many people thought a serious social vice would be eliminated.  The Amendment, although it did reduce alcohol consumption, met with widespread resistance.  It also caused courts to have more cases of bootlegger prosecutions than they could handle and organized crime gained power and influence in many communities.  Then, during the Great Depression, Democrats thought the alcohol industry could be a source of employment and taxes.  Congress, fearing that the amendment wouldn't be ratified by conservative state legislatures, had the amendment voted on by special conventions within each state.
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Since the government could not control alcohol manufacturing and distribution under FDR, and saw huge profits to be made, prohibition was repealed. First, beer was legalized, to rousing editions of Happy Days are Here Again" being heard across the land. Payoffs to local officials, including the police, were common. Gambling too follows suit though most of the public opposed it in  their districts. There is a huge amount of money to made, and the goverment policy seems to be "if you can't beat them , join hem."
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By far the most important laws passed in the 1950s were written after the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the Court ruled that publis schools could NOT be segregated.  After that decision there were a plethora of cases and laws passed that opened the doors to integration in schools, movie theaters, universities, swimming pools, golf courses, mortuaries, bus stations, etc...\n\n\nIncidentally, women got the right to vote in 1920--NOT the 1950s.
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Women were not allowed to be in public office or vote in those days. The only powerful women in those days were the wives of the president, and not very powerful at that. \n\nAmerican women were not given the vote until 1920.
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August 26, 1920, The 19th Amendment went into effect, this amendment gave women the right to vote.
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Women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920. Some states had passed laws prior to 1920 giving women the right to vote, and some women had won election to public office before the 19th Amendment became law. Women in England did not win full voting rights until 1928, however.
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Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
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The 18th amendment proclaiming prohibition was repealed by the 21st. No other amendement has been repealed.
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Amendment XXII \n(Ratified in 1951.) \n\nSection 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. \n\nSection 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress\n\nIt was FDR broke with tradition
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Neither.\n\nThe genius of the founding fathers of the United States was not that they knew everything, but that they understood that they could not know everything. With that humble attitude, they included in the Constitution a feature which allows future generations to update the Constitution to fit the changing times.\n\nLook at all the amendments which have been added to the Constitution. Every amendment is a slight change to the Constitution to keep it updated with the times. \n\nThe 18th and 21st amendments are a perfect example. The 18th amendment was the prohibition of alcohol because people at that time thought that alcohol would destroy the country.\n\nWhen the people finally realized that the prohibition of alcohol gave rise to an even greater threat (gangsters like Al Capone), they decided to undo the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment. That's the Constitution changing with the times.
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this webpage describes it to great detail\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment
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means that the constitution has been changed.  For example the drinking of alcohol used to be illegal by the Prohibition Act.  But the Constititution was "amended" (21st Amendment) to make the consumption of alcohol legal again
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The world is different than it was when the Constitution was ratified in 1789, and this is a process to update it to the current standards. It is also a way to clarify some of the language that may be vague (as in the 11th Amendment).\n\nFor example, in Article I, Section 2, it use to state, "...which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons". This was amended by the 14 Amendment to be, "any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States". This was later changed with the 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) and the 26th Amendment (Voting Age Set to 18 Years).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution