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What you and your group did come up with, please write down
1920s Chart What you and your group did come up with, please write down
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Women 19th amendment—right to vote
New freedoms—fashion, makeup, jobs, activites Flappers—rebellious young girls who wore short skirts, had bobbed hair, drank, smoked, and danced
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Prohibition 18th amendment
Had the opposite effect—Americans drank more! Speakeasies, bootlegging Increase in crime—all centered around smuggling alcohol Hard for law enforcement to enforce
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Harlem Renaissance Great Migration—African Americans move north to escape discrimination and for jobs in the cities African American culture—Poetry, Langston Hughes, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Cotton Club, artists Black pride and Nationalism
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Consumerism People begin to spend more on wants than needs
Goods become cheaper due to mass production Advertising to sell goods Installment plans (credit)
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Entertainment Radios become cheaper and most homes have one
Radios spread information and common culture More free time—spend more money, need more entertainment Sports, Movies, Radio Rise of celebrities—Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth
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Values Rural = conservative/traditional Urban = modern ideas
Fundamentalism—the Bible should be taken literally Scopes “Monkey” trial—Tennessee teacher broke law and taught evolution in classroom Clarence Darrow—modern lawyer fighting for evolution; William Jennings Bryan—fundamentalist defending the Bible and creationism
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