1. Changing Ways of Life
Chapter 13
Section 1-2

2. Urban Scene 1920’s = Cities were the place to be
New York = 5.6 million people
Chicago = Industrial power house
Nightly entertainment
Movie theaters
Vaudeville Houses – Variety shows
Competition / Change
New social ideas
Drinking, gambling, casual dating
Behaviors = Shocking

3. 18th Amendment January 1920 Prohibition
Manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages legally prohibited
Liquor = prime cause of corruption
Support came from rural South and West areas
Protestants

4. Prohibition Saloons closed doors Arrests for drunkenness declined
Many Americans not happy
Wanted to enjoy life = not considered a sin
Socializing
Resentment
Government did not have funds to enforce

5. Prohibition Cont. Speakeasies
Drinkers went underground
Hidden saloons = found everywhere
Spoke quietly
Cards – Passwords
People learned to distill alcohol = build own stills
Bootleggers
Smugglers
Canada, Cuba, and West Indies
Became a national sport
Nascar

6. Organized Crime Bootlegging Empire - $60 million a yr.
Al Capone
Bootlegging Empire - $60 million a yr.
Controlled Chicago liquor business = Killed competition
1920’s = 522 gang killings

7. End of Prohibition 19% supported Prohibition Mid 1920’s
Rest wanted it repealed
Caused worse effect than initial
problems
Remained until 1933
Repealed by 21st Amendment

8. Fundamentalism Skeptical of scientific discoveries
Reject theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin
Religious Revivals
Called for laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution

9. Scopes Trial
ACLU = Clarence Darrow famous trial lawyer to defend Scopes
William Jennings Bryan = Prosecutor
Fight over evolution and role of science and religion
Found guilty = fined $100
Supreme Court later changed the verdict – law still remained in effect
March 1925
Tennessee = Crime to teach evolution
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Defend any teacher
John Scopes – Biology teacher
Arrested – Went to trial (July)

10. Twenties Woman
Chapter 13
Section 2

11. Rules Change “Wild Young People” Reject values of the 19th century
New World for Young Americans
“Wild Young People”
Women = assert independence
Reject values of the 19th century
Demand same freedoms as men

12. Flapper Flapper Emancipated young women
New fashions = attitudes (know two)
Close-fitting hats
Bright waistless dresses
Inch above the knee
Skin toned stockings
Sleek pumps
Strings of beads
Clipped long hair –bobs
Dyed jet black

13. Youth Rebellious Youth Double Standard Casual dating Smoking, Drinking
Fox Trot, Tango, Charleston
Double Standard
Principles granting more freedom to men than to women
Stricter behavior
Casual dating

14. Changing Family Technological inventions
1930
10 million women earning wages
Technological inventions
Ready made clothes, sliced bread, canned food
Children no longer working along side adults
Went to school