the roaring life of the 1920s u.s. history chapter 13
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The Roaring Life of the 1920s
U.S. History Chapter 13
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Section 1 - Changing Ways of Life
• Many people were living in cities.• The New Urban Scene– Jobs – day. Movies, vaudeville theaters at night.– City life challenging, impersonal.
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The Prohibition Experience
• 18th Amendment – banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. Takes affect in January 1920.
• Was unenforceable.• Volstead Act – set up to enforce
Prohibition, underfunded.
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Hidden saloons and nightclubs – speakeasies.Bootleggers – smugglers of alcohol.
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Organized Crime
• Al Capone – Chicago - 6 years of gang warfare – bootlegging - $60 million/year.
• He killed off his competition while traveling around in his armor-plated car with bulletproof windows.
• “Public Enemy Number One” • Went to jail for tax evasion• Crime’s led to prostitution, gambling, drugs. Harassed
honest merchants in to paying them for protection from other gangs, or they would smash their stores.
• By 1930, the annual “take” for the underworld was between $12 to $18 billion/year.
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• By mid 20’s only 19% support Prohibition.• 1933 – repealed with the 21st Amendment.
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Science and Religion Clash
• Fundamentalism – protestant movement grounded in a literal interpretation of the Bible.
• Rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution• In the South – lots of revivals, led by people
like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson
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The Scopes Trial
• TN -crime to teach evolution. • ACLU – promised to defend any teacher who
wanted to protest it. – John Scopes– They hired Clarence Darrow as his lawyer. – William Jennings Bryan - prosecutor.
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• Scopes Trial – also called the Monkey Trial – role of science and religion in public schools and society.
• Bryan called to the stand as an expert on the Bible. On the stand Bryan admitted the Bible could be interpreted different ways.
• Scopes found guilty, fined $100. Later changed, but law teaching evolution remained in effect.
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Section 2 The Twenties Woman
• Women – independent, rejecting the values of the 19th century.
• The Flapper – liberated young women embracing new fashions and urban attitudes. Hats, short dresses, beads, short dyed hair. Smoked, drank, danced. Saw marriage as an equal partnership.
• Casual dating - more acceptable.
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Women Shed Old roles at Home and at Work
• New opportunities for women in the workplace– nurses, teachers, librarians, clerical work.
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The Changing Family
• Birthrate decreased. More birth control available. Margaret Sanger – founded American Birth Control League.
• Household life easier thanks to things that could be bought in stores.
• Working women jugglinghome and work.
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Section 3 Education and Popular Culture
• 1914 – 1 million attending high school• 1926 – 4 million attending high school • Why? High educational standards for
industrial jobs, offering more courses. Also states were requiring young people to remain in school until age 16 or 18.
• Literacy increased as education increased
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Radio Comes of Age
• November 1920 – Pittsburgh station KDKA broadcast the new of the Harding landslide. By late 1920s improvements had been made that allowed long-distance broadcasting possible.
• Created the experience of hearing the news together as it happened, like hearing the President speak, or sporting events like boxing or the World Series.
• Families gathered around the radio to listen to programming.
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America Chases New Heroes and Old Dreams
• 1929 - $4.5 billion spend on entertainment
• Babe Ruth• Andrew “Rube” Foster – founded
Negro National League• Helen Willis – tennis• Charles Lindbergh - “Spirit of St.
Louis” • Amelia Earhart
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Entertainment and the Arts• Movies popular – 1903 –
first movie – The Great Train Robbery.
• First full length movie – The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• First “talkie” – The Jazz Singer (1927)
• George Gershwin – concert musician
• Painters – Edward Hoper and Georgia O’Keeffe
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Writers of the 1920’s
• 1920’s – one of the richest eras in literary history
• Sinclair Lewis • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Ernest Hemingway• William Faulkner• Poetry – Ezra Pound and T.S.
Elliot
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Section Four – The Harlem Renaissance
• Marcus Garvey – Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)– Promote African
American businesses– Encouraged followers to
return to Africa• Convicted of mail fraud
and jailed
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The Harlem Renaissance
• A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
• Writers:– Claude McKay– Langston Hughes – poet
• Performers:– Paul Robeson – actor– Louis Armstrong – jazz– Duke Ellington – jazz pianist
and composer– Bessie Smith – blues singer