1. Twenties Urban Lifestyle

2. Automobile Changes America's landscape Paved roads Liberated isolated rural family Urban Sprawl: cities spread in all directions Ex. Raleigh v. European Cities Economic Underpinning of Cities Akron, Ohio Detroit, Michigan Pontiac, Michigan Symbol of Status: wealth "rather let the kids starve than sell the car"

3. Airplanes & Electrical Conveniences Carry mail for government Disastrous, but gets better Navigation & Weather Forecasting Passenger Planes (Ford) Electrical Conveniences: Radio Washing Machine Refrigerator Sewing Machines Vacuum Toaster Modern Advertising!

4. Prosperity? America is prospering Believe it will last forever (Good Times) We all know what happens next… Preview of Why/How Installment Plan: enables people to buy goods over extended period of time without having to put much money down Ex. Layaway (Wal-mart/K-Mart) Americans are living in the present. No care for the future (Scarlett O'Hara)

5. Rural vs. Urban Rural: –Safe, welcoming, neighborly greetings Small towns & communities Church = important (moral teachings) Urban: Busy, competitive, impersonal & frightening NYC: 5.6 million people Chicago: 3 million people Philadelphia: 2 million people

6. Prohibition New Ideas Alcohol is part of new “city life” Enforcement is lacking. Speakeasies – secret bars Bootleggers- smugglers Leads to organized crime Ex: Al Capone of Chicago Old Ideas Alcohol is the root of social problems 18th Amendment created Prohibition. (No sale, transport or consumption of alcohol)

8. Science v. Religion (Scopes Trial) New Ideas Science: Darwin’s evolution theory should be taught Scopes is a teacher who teaches evolution in TN. (1925) Gains world wide attention. Clarence Darrow defends evolution. Old Ideas Religion: creationism should be taught from the Bible Wm. Jennings Bryan defends creationism. Scopes found guilty and fined

9. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, 1925

10. Clarence Darrow Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan (the Populist Guy!)

11. Clashing Values Role of Women New Ideas clothes New jobs 19th Amend / voting rights changes in attitudes & norms Old Ideas rural areas don’t change women have household duties give up jobs for men double standard still exists

12. Famous People of the 20s Babe Ruth: New York Yankee Slugger 60 homeruns in 1 season Jack Dempsey: Heavyweight boxing champion Defeated by Gene Tunney Red Grange: "Galloping Ghost" - Fighting Irish aka Notre Dame Knute Rockne: Norwegian-American Football Player/Coach Gertrude Ederle: 1st female to swim across English Channel Charles Lindbergh: flew the 1st solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean & became America's hero

13. Famous People of the 20s Charlie Chaplin: famous movie star of the time George Gershwin: combined Jazz with classical music F. Scott Fitzgerald: wrote of the negative aspects of 1920s Sinclair Lewis: 1st American to win Nobel Prize in literature Took am @ shallow, stifling existence of middle-class America Ernest Hemingway: Lost Generation of writers Best-known expatriate author