1. Chapter 21 The Roaring Twenties

2. Population exploded in the cities  2 Million people were leaving small town American and moving to the cities every year  New York - 5.6 Million  Chicago - 3 Million  Philadelphia – 2 Million

3. 18 th Amendment  Prohibition  Selling  Manufacturing  Consumption  Transportation

4. Speakeasies  Dancing  Drinking  Women  Gambling

5. Organized Crime  Al Capone  Elliot Ness  Untouchables

6. Elliot Ness and the Untouchables

7. Science and Religion Clash

8. Fundamentalism  Skeptical of scientific knowledge  Important knowledge found in Bible  Rejected the theory of evolution  Believed God;s creation story from Bible

9. Scopes Trial  John T. Scopes – Biology teacher in Tennessee  Clarence Darrow  William Jennings Bryan  Evolution vs. Biblical  Social Darwinism

10. Women of the 1920’s  Flappers  Casual Dating  Swim Suits changed  Courtships Changed  Double Standard

11. A changing Culture  School enrollments went up  Mass Media Radio Broadcasts  News Coverage

12. American Heroes and Icons

13. Gertrude Ederle

14. James Herman Ruth “Babe” “Sultan of Swat”

15. Andrew “Rube” Foster Founder of the Negro National League

16. Helen Wills “Little Miss Poker Face”

17. Charles Lindberg First nonstop Transatlantic flight

18. George Gershwin Composer

19. Georgia O’Keeffe Painter

20. Sinclair Lewis Nobel peace prize winner

21. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

22. The Harlem Renaissance A literary and Artistic movement celebrating African America Culture

23. Harlem was a Bustling town

24. Langston Hughes

25. Louis B. Armstrong

26. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

27. Bessie Smith