The Roaring 20’s Chapter 13
Get out your roaring 20’s packets Prohibition Women’s suffrage Life during the 1920’s Sports and 1920’s heroes Flappers 1920’s slang
The Scopes Monkey Trial Religious debates begin to play a large role in American politics In 1925 the Tennessee legislature makes it illegal to teach evolution John Scope defies the law Clarence Darrow leads the defense William Jennings Bryan leads the prosecution Event is turned into a spectacle Scopes is found guilty and fined $100 Conviction is later overturned by Supreme Court
Ku Klux Klan Rise in the growing dislike of immigrants leads to a revival of the KKK Grows from a few thousand in 1920 to 5 million by 1925 Used scare tactics, cross burnings, beatings, kidnappings, and murders to scare its victims
Key Players
1920’s Key Players (athletes) Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Ty Cobb “Rube” Foster “Red” Grange Bill Tilden Bobby Jones Jack Dempsey Johnny Weissmuller Gertrude Ederle
1920’s Key Players (Musicians/Actors) Louis Armstrong Scott Joplin George Gershwin Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton Greta Garbo Will Rogers Rudolph Valentino
1920’s Key Players (Presidents/Police) Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge J. Edgar Hoover Klu Klux Klan Mitchell Palmer “Izzy” Einstein “Moe” Smith Wayne Wheeler
1920’s Key Players (Pioneers) Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Carrie Nation Henry Ford