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1920s The Age of Wonderful Nonsense Margaret Gorman Sacco Vanzetti Warren Harding St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 1927 Model T.

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2 1920s The Age of Wonderful Nonsense Margaret Gorman Sacco Vanzetti Warren Harding St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 1927 Model T

3 Prohibition Started in 1800s w/Temperance Movement Eighteenth Amendment (1919) Ban on alcohol Combat crime Family violence Poverty

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5 Prohibition Continued Negative Factors Bootlegging Criminal gangs Large cities controlled liquor sales − Al Capone Gang violence St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Positive Factors Decrease Alcoholism Alcohol related deaths decline Twenty-first Amendment

6 Youth Culture Flappers - Modern Woman Stylish Own career Social freedom Economic independence Bobbed short hair Drove cars Played sports Independent

7 Youth Culture College life Before Education ended after high school During Enrollments tripled New target group for advertising Movies Magazines

8 Youth Culture Leisure fun and fads Dance marathons -- 3 weeks long in 1928 Beauty contests Miss America Pageant Flagpole sitting

9 Mass Entertainment Paychecks More free time Radio 1929 − 800 stations − Over 10 million homes Broadcast − Church services − News − Music − Sporting events − Advertising

10 Mass Entertainment Movies Silent films Dramas Westerns Showed changes in morality and sexuality

11 Mass Entertainment Sports Professional Baseball Tennis Boxing Greyhound Racing Football College level Football Recreation Waterskiing invented Jim Thorpe Black Sox Scandal

12 Mass Entertainment Literature Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes Zora Neale Thurston

13 Celebrities and Heroes Media Influence Youth often copied behavior of their idols Heroes Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart − First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

14 Religion Era of Revivalism Declining moral standards Elaborate church messages Hollywood flare Fundamentalism Conservative Christian doctrine −A−Accepted without question Scopes Trial: challenged Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

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