RURAL VS. URBAN
Scope’s Trial - “monkey trial” Evolution or Science??
PROHIBITION – 18 th Amendment thanks to the WCTU No producing, making or selling of alcoholic beverages
Al Capone- Bootlegger & Gangster
21 st Amendment Prohibition Created a huge increase in crime 1933 – 21 st Amendment is passed finally the 18 th Amendment is repealed.
SPEAKEASIES & the Charleston click photo below
Carrie Chapman Catt NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association President
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns Created the NWP --National Women’s Party Jailed and beat Their movement catapulted women’s suffrage to the forefront!
Women’s Suffrage 19 th Amendment
Flappers
CLARA BOW “IT GIRL” of the 1920’s Click picture below
MARGARET SANGER Created the first Birth Control Clinic Jailed many times. Click photo for video
Jeanette Rankin First female to become a House of Representatives member. From Montana
Charles Lindberg Click above photo
Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance occurred during the 1920’s in Harlem, a part of NYC, New York. It included, many famous African American singers, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and entertainers.
Louis Armstrong Click on image below
W.E.B. DuBois He held 4 Degrees Professor of Economics and History at University of Atlanta 1909 he helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Claude McKay (1889– May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet.
Marcus Garvey Created the UNIA Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association) “Black is Beautiful”
James Weldon Johnson POET & LAWYER Tries to get Anti-Lynching Laws passed
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Writer and editor who crusaded to stop Lynching
Langston Hughes American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist.
Bessie Smith “EMPRESS of the BLUES” Click on photo to the right. Click on photo To the right For Norah Jones song on Bessie Smith
SCOTT JOPLIN Composer of: “The Entertainer” “The Maple Leaf Rag” Click on photo to right
Ballyhoo Insignificant events blown way out of proportion by the media!
Athletics Jack Dempsey Knute Rockne Red Grange
BABE RUTH
Charlie Chaplin Click photo to the right
Al JOLSON Click photo to left
Materialism F. Scott Fitzgerald The GREAT GATSBY
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A Farewell to Arms
Literature T.S. ElliotThe Waste LandSinclair Lewis
Talkies From Silent film to Movies with sound!
The Cotton Club Click photo to the left
1920’s New Inventions Refrigerators Electric irons Radios Washing MachinesautomobilesSweepers