2. Birth Control Came about with increase in women’s rights
Pushed for increase in contraceptives
Birth rate declined 20% between

3. Divorce With increased women rights, increased freedom came
Clash between men and female roles

4. Divorce Rates

5. Prohibition The Eighteenth Amendment
As a result, many Americans turned to bootleggers, or suppliers of illegal alcohol. Bars that operated illegally, known as speakeasies, were either disguised as legitimate businesses or hidden in some way, often behind heavy gates.
Urban areas tended to ignore law with speakeasies

6. Organized Crime
The tremendous profit resulting from the sale of illegal liquor, as well as the complex organization involved, helped lead to the development of organized crime.
Successful bootlegging organizations often moved into other illegal activities as well, including gambling, prostitution, and racketeering. As rival groups fought for control in some American cities, gang wars and murders became commonplace.

7. Issues of Religion Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism supported traditional Christian ideas and argued for a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Evolution and the Scopes Trail
Fundamentalists worked to pass laws against teaching the theory of evolution in public schools. A science teacher named John T. Scopes agreed to challenge such a law in Tennessee.

8. An example of this clash of values was the tension between modernism and Christian fundamentalism in the 1920s.
Modernism emphasized science and secular values.
Fundamentalism emphasized religious values and taught the literal truth of the Christian Bible.

9. Education became a battleground for fundamentalist and modernist values in the 1925 Scopes Trial.
Tennessee made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools.
Biology teacher John Scopes challenged the law.
Defense attorney Clarence Darrow tried to use science to cast doubt on religious beliefs.

10. Attitudes toward education illustrate another difference between urban and rural perspectives.
Urban people saw formal education as essential to getting a good job.
In rural areas, “book learning” interfered with farm work and was less highly valued.