1. Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties?
Chapter 20: Section 1

2. The Main Idea
The United States experienced many social changes during the 1920s.

3. Ladies Nite New Opportunities for women Flappers shock society
Political office
More equality in the home
Flappers shock society
Women smoke, wear makeup, dance, hemlines rise
Flappers were a small minority of American women, but it represented a change in attitudes

4. Effects of Urbanization
1920’s more people live in cities than in rural areas for the first time
Farmers took a major hit after WWI
Cars brought the rural areas to the cites
For the first time in history more people lived in the city than in the country.
Education increased as some states passed laws on education.

5. Conflicts over Values
Americans lived in larger communities, which produced a shift in values, or a person’s key beliefs and ideas.
Ku Klux Klan grew dramatically in the 1920s

6. You’ve Got to Rise Up Fundamentalism
Bible is a literal statement of God’s will
Billy Sunday revivals are extremely popular, especially among white rural Americans
Aimee Semple McPherson was a well-known for healing the sick through prayer

7. Scopes Monkey Trial
Fundamentalists forbid teaching of Darwin’s evolution theory in Tennessee
William Jennings Bryant was prosecutor
Clarence Darrow, a famous attorney, represented Scopes

8. Prohibition 1917 more than half of the states prohibited alcohol
Al Capone
Speakeasies
Bootleggers