During the 1920s, women everywhere experienced extreme changes in standards: urban fashions emerged, public drinking and sexual conversation was engaged, attitudes toward marriage changed, and new jobs became available. Many women took advantage of these new freedoms and became flappers, however not all women shared the same view on the matter. Traditionalists in churches and schools protested the new casual dances and women’s acceptance of smoking or drinking, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was the group who pushed the hardest for Prohibition. Also in the 1920s, a large number of immigrant families began sending their children to school, increasing the number of literate Americans; however, these immigrants were highly discriminated against, getting paid less to work more than the average American and being forced to live in smaller, more dangerous communities than whites. Black Americans began voicing their pride in what was known as the Harlem Renaissance, revealing the richness of African American culture, however lynching still was not outlawed in the US and segregation separated white and black Americans in public.
The Incas built such a large road network stretching for 1000's of kilometers north and south of Cuzco, their capital, in what is now Peru, in order to keep the lines of communication open with their far flung empire, ie to convey messages to their local rulers, and probably for military purposes to have routes for their armies to follow in times of war. The roads were built by the ordinary people ie the men of a certain age would be subject to the mit'a or compulsory public service to build roads, temples and work in the mines.
This quote comes from the now famous Four Freedoms speech, delivered by Roosevelt as the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941. The international context was very negative. Hitler and his Axis allies were winning in Europe. Britain was greatly menaced and the Japanese were gearing up for all-out war in the Pacific and in Asia.
Roosevelt, aware that scientific progress had eliminated the physical advantage of the USA being separated from Europe and Asia by such vast expanses of water had been arming and funding the British for years and had also increased military spending and the Navy in order to keep Japan at bay.
He knew that once Hitler had conquered Europe and Japan had conquered the East, all the populations and resources of these vast reasons would be used to directly attack the USA, which would eventually find itself in numeric inferiority so in order to prevent such a dark future he chose to send weapons, supplies and money to the British.
<span>A constitution that established the first US government.</span>
