1. Misleading Prosperity Production increases, causes Income Gap, farmers suffer greatly. Goods bought on credit. – Installment Plan (Pay as you Enjoy) – Huge potential for Problems…why?

2. 20’s Continued

3. The 20’s Woman Flappers: Emancipated Women that embraced new fashions and urban attitudes. – Women become more assertive, less of a secondary role. – Morals began to loosen. – Still a Double Standard for Women.

4. Women Shed Old Roles Work Opportunities – Women Fired after WWI – Pink Collar Jobs:Nurse, Teachers, Secretaries, etc. – Women still didn’t rise in workplace.

5. Changing Family Decline in Birthrate. Less time spent on Housework. Romantic marriages. Children in School. Teens spent less time w/ families.

6. Science vs. Religion Fundamentalism: Rejection of Scientific Teaching (Evolution) claim all important info is found in bible. Scopes Trial – John Scopes teaches evolution. – Darrow vs. Bryan in debate over what to teach students. – Scopes loses, but begins a tense and heated debate that continues today.

7. Rural vs. Urban More People living in the cities. – Crowded, Sophisticated, dangerous, fast paced places to live. Prohibition: 18 th Amendment – Enforced by Volstead Act Organized Crime Rises (Led by Al Capone) – Speakeasy: Hidden Saloon – Bootlegger: Booze Smugglers

8. 20’s Pop Culture

9. Shaping Culture School Enrollment up. – College popular. Larger Newspaper and Magazine circulation. – Small Newspapers bought out. Radio Programs

10. New Heroes Babe Ruth of Baseball Charles Lindbergh’s Flying First Movie with Sound, The Jazz Singer First cartoon with sound, Steamboat Willie

11. Literature Known as the “Lost Generation” – Fought in WWI, many left America Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, ridiculed Americans for conformity. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, icon of twenties, coined “Jazz Age” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, criticized the romanticizing of war.