1. Changing Way of Life in the 1920s
13.1 & 13.2 notes

2. Great Social Change
The “Roaring 20’s” was a time of great social change
People were moving away from the small rural communities and into the urban cities
What Changes Does This Cause?

3. Change Racial and Economic groups merge
Cities are filled with new and exciting experiences that the people were either excited about or afraid of: Skyscrapers, cars, trolleys, movie theaters, museums, exhibits, sporting events, and night clubs
Drinking, Gambling, & Casual Dating

4. 18th Amendment was created
Prohibition – “prohibiting” the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol.
Franklin P. Adams wrote a poem about prohibition
Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
It's left a tail of graft and slime,
It didn't prohibit worth a dime,
It's filled our land with ice and crime,
Nevertheless,
We're for it
Why Prohibition?
Alcohol was seen as the cause of many of society’s problems.

5. Prohibition was impossible to enforce
18,700 miles of coast lines and borders
Doctor prescriptions
The production of “near-beer”
The production of Alcohol
Seriously under-staffed law enforcement corps
1920: 1,520 Agents
1930: 3,000 Agents

6. How do we know? Home Breweries: Home Production of Wine Hard Liquors
Malt & Hops sales increased dramatically
Predict that 700,000,000 gallons of beer was produced
Home Production of Wine
Dramatic increase in grape sales
Including dandalions and bricks of grape concentrate
Hard Liquors
Portable “stills” were made
“Bathtub” gin
Juniper Oil imports went up dramatically

7. How it was done Alcohol Production and Smuggling – Bootlegging
Places alcohol was consumed:
Homes
“Speakeasies” – high end bars
“Shock Houses” – low end bars
Many deaths and injuries from drinking tainted alcohol
After prohibition, there were more speakeasies and shock houses than legitimate bars

8. Consequences of Illegal Alcohol Consumption
Contributed to the beginnings of organized crime
1920s Gangsters sought to control the illicit alcohol market
Copied “Big Business” techniques of vertical monopolies
“St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” (1929)
“Bugs” Moran vs Al Capone
Increased widespread corruption. They would buy off police and public officials (prohibition agents)
This eventually led to the corruption of the entire legal system

9. Bye Bye Prohibition
18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 – 13 years

10. Critical Thinking Question
Why do people become so concerned about the teaching of evolution in schools?
What is your belief about the teaching of evolution in school?

11. Another Fundamentalist Religious Argument
Scopes Trial
Tennessee made it illegal for a teacher to teach evolution
So John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, teaches ideas from Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Two big time lawyers were hired for this case,
William Jennings Bryan – special prosecutor – and former Presidential canidate
Clarence Darrow – the most famous trial lawyer of that time, hired by the ACLU
Darrow puts Bryan on the stand as a Bible expert, and gets Bryan to admit that he himself does interpret everything in the bible literally
Scopes lost and was fined $100 – Supreme Court later overturned this ruling.

12. Discovery Education Video
Scopes Monkey Trial: Teaching Creationism or Evolution in School

13. Women of the 1920s
Flappers
Society was becoming more carefree and so were women
Changes were being made in women’s roles and appearance
Divorce rates grew
End of chaperoned dates being the status-quo
Women were held to a Double Standard
Casual dating became more of a standard and an expectation.
Women were required to observe stricter standards of sexual behavior than men

14. Margaret Sanger Was a very controversial figure of her time
She campaigned her entire life for spreading the knowledge and the use of contraceptives (birth control), even in 1922 up until her death in 1966
Came from a very progressive family
Her mother died after her 18th pregnancy.
She founded Planned Parenthood