Chapter 21 The Roaring Twenties
Population exploded in the cities 2 Million people were leaving small town American and moving to the cities every year New York Million Chicago - 3 Million Philadelphia – 2 Million
18 th Amendment Prohibition Selling Manufacturing Consumption Transportation
Speakeasies Dancing Drinking Women Gambling
Organized Crime AAl Capone EElliot Ness UUntouchables PUBLIC ENEMY # 1
Elliot Ness and the Untouchables
Science and Religion Clash
Fundamentalism Skeptical of scientific knowledge Important knowledge found in Bible Rejected the theory of evolution Believed God’s creation story from Bible
Scopes Trial John T. Scopes – Biology teacher in Tennessee Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan Evolution vs. Biblical Social Darwinism
Women of the 1920’s Flappers Casual Dating Swim Suits changed Courtships Changed Double Standard
A Changing Culture School enrollments went up Mass Media Radio Broadcasts News Coverage
American Heroes and Icons
Gertrude Ederle
George Herman Ruth “Babe” “Sultan of Swat”
Andrew “Rube” Foster Founder of the Negro National League
Helen Wills “Little Miss Poker Face”
Charles LindbergH First nonstop Transatlantic flight MAY 1927
George Gershwi n Compos er
Georgia O’Keeffe Painter
Sinclair Lewis Nobel Peace Prize Winner
F. Scott Fitzgerald AUTHOR OF The Great Gatsby
Harlem was a Bustling Town
Langsto n Hughes
Louis B. Armstrong
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
Bessie Smith