Women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment opening up an array of opportunities for them.
Although the Crusades are popularly viewed as religiously inspired campaigns to recapture the Holy Land, students should recognize them as a result of the social and economic events in Europe between 1000 and 1200. Religious and secular leaders seeking to end the fighting among feudal lords seized upon the Crusades as a means of redirecting that aggression. Feudal knights who would not be inheriting their family properties eagerly enlisted in the Crusades as a way to win wealth or status. The idea of the pilgrimage was a powerful one, and the Crusades were basically armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The various Crusades ultimately failed. The sack of Constantinople was a fitting denouement to the whole concept. The interaction with the East brought to Europe not only Arabic translations of Greek texts, but also original Arabic and Iranian scientific and philosophical works.
Great Awakening was when people woke up to the need of religion in their lives, and it embraced the downtrodden such as farmers, the blacks and the slaves. On the other hand, Enlightenment remained in the hands of the intellectuals and the scientists.
It had a very positive impact because the 1920's was when many new technologies were introduced, one example being the the assembly line, which made many industries more productive and profitable.
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