Goal 9 Part s Culture and Business Practices under Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Main ideas:  _____________________  Believed in ________________________ ________________________ – leads to better American businesses

Impact of the ___________ (1920s) CHANGED everything! *The Automobile _______________________, increased mobility (vacation) Gave people the chance to work at jobs miles away from their home, resulting in _______________- (Cities grow in every direction)

“____________Twenties” Why ROARING???? VERY _________________________!!!!! People’s income rose more than 35%...more money…buy a bunch of junk! Businesses boomed! 1920’s = _______________will “catch up” to America __________________ causes the _________________________________________ ______of (1930s)

Buying Goods on ______________ “_______________” allows people to buy goods on “credit”, without putting a large amount of money down (superficial prosperity) Banks: ____________________ Economists: got worried!  Americans didn’t listen: Remember: War is over, we won…life is good…let’s spend money!!!!

Prohibition Experiment ______________________ Reminder: __________ – the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol was illegal Mainly supported by: _______________ People still want alcohol! SO….as a result = Speakeasies and Bootleggers, Organized Crime 18 th Amendment lasted until 1933, when it was repealed by the 21 st Amendment (taxed alcohol) PROHIBITION CAUSES THE CREATION OF (1) ___________ (2) _______ (3) _______________

Speakeasies & Bootleggers _________To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went to these secret underground bars Speak quietly…password ____________: liquor smugglers – got liquor from Cuba and Canada and snuck it into the U.S.

Organized Crime Prohibition generated a total “disrespect” for law = Organized Crime Al Capone  Chicago gangster & bootlegger  Literally killed his competition (522 people)

___________________ (Traditional vs. Modern lifestyles) ____________________: Protestants that believed in EVERY SINGLE WORD of the Bible; denoted scientific findings of the 1920s (rejection of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution) Biggest clash between Science and Religion = ____________________

Scopes Trial / ___________ (____) Tennessee passed a state law = if you teach evolution = CRIME! _________________*ACLU* - claims they will defend teachers that teach evolution in Tenn. Story: ____________– teacher that teaches evolution in Dayton, Tenn. Scopes was caught teaching evolution and arrested

Darrow vs. Bryan _______ hired ____________to serve as the defense lawyer William Jennings ________ (fundamentalist) served as the prosecutor Trial: July 10, 1925 Verdict: Butler Act until 1967 / Scopes is guilty and fined $100 Most Important : The two groups that clashed over the Scopes Trial (1925) would be (1) _______ (2) _________

The Twenties Woman THE “_____________________” an emancipated woman in the 1920s that embraced the new fashions of the 1920s / ______________________ _________________________

1920s Hero _________________  Small-town pilot who made the first nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean (from New York to Paris)  Paid $25,000  Plane: Spirit of the St. Louis

Entertainment and the Arts The Jazz Singer – 1 st movie with “sound” (ended the silent film era) – “TALKIES” Steamboat Willie – 1 st animated film with “sound” Georgia O’Keefe – painted landscapes of New York

Writers of the 1920s *These writers are important because they are writing about what is going on in America at the “TIME THEY ARE WRITING” (1) Sinclair Lewis : 1 st American to win the Nobel Prize  Famous Novel: Babbit – ridiculed Americans for their conformity! (2) F. Scott Fitzgerald: coined the phrase “JAZZ AGE” to describe the 1920s Famous Novel: The Great Gatsby – revealed the negative side of the 1920s period of freedom (3) Ernest Hemingway - A Sun Also Rises *Lost Generation* - authors that have rebelled Against what America has become AFTER WWI

T.Q. The passage of the 18 th Amendment was a victory for which group? A. Rural Protestants B. Catholic immigrants C. Urban residents D. Career criminals

Goal 9 Part 3 The Harlem Renaissance

Marcus Garvey and the UNIA Remember: “Back to Africa Movement” Founded the UNIA – (Universal Negro Improvement Association)=same goal as NAACP

Harlem Renaissance A literary and artistic movement celebrating the AFRICAN AMERICAN culture / the great “flowering” of African American artistic activity in the 1920s Most Famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance = Langston Hughes  Poems show the difficult life of “Working-class African Americans”

Which of the following caused the Harlem Renaissance to flower in the 1920s? A. Immigration and overcrowding in Harlem B. Great Migration and African American pride C. The NAACP D. Marcus Garvey’s UNIA organization Reasons: Racial discrimination in the South Campaigns for equality in the North