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RURAL VS. URBAN
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Scope’s Trial - “monkey trial” Evolution or Science??
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PROHIBITION – 18 th Amendment thanks to the WCTU No producing, making or selling of alcoholic beverages 1920-1933
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Al Capone- Bootlegger & Gangster
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21 st Amendment Prohibition Created a huge increase in crime 1933 – 21 st Amendment is passed finally the 18 th Amendment is repealed.
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SPEAKEASIES & the Charleston click photo below
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Carrie Chapman Catt NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association President
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Alice Paul & Lucy Burns Created the NWP --National Women’s Party Jailed and beat Their movement catapulted women’s suffrage to the forefront!
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Women’s Suffrage 19 th Amendment
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Flappers
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CLARA BOW “IT GIRL” of the 1920’s Click picture below
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MARGARET SANGER Created the first Birth Control Clinic Jailed many times. Click photo for video
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Jeanette Rankin First female to become a House of Representatives member. From Montana
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Charles Lindberg Click above photo
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Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance occurred during the 1920’s in Harlem, a part of NYC, New York. It included, many famous African American singers, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and entertainers.
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Louis Armstrong Click on image below
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W.E.B. DuBois He held 4 Degrees Professor of Economics and History at University of Atlanta 1909 he helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Claude McKay (1889– May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet.
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Marcus Garvey Created the UNIA Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association) “Black is Beautiful”
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James Weldon Johnson POET & LAWYER Tries to get Anti-Lynching Laws passed
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett Writer and editor who crusaded to stop Lynching
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Langston Hughes American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist.
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Bessie Smith “EMPRESS of the BLUES” Click on photo to the right. Click on photo To the right For Norah Jones song on Bessie Smith
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SCOTT JOPLIN Composer of: “The Entertainer” “The Maple Leaf Rag” Click on photo to right
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Ballyhoo Insignificant events blown way out of proportion by the media!
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Athletics Jack Dempsey Knute Rockne Red Grange
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BABE RUTH
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Charlie Chaplin Click photo to the right
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Al JOLSON Click photo to left
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Materialism F. Scott Fitzgerald The GREAT GATSBY
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY A Farewell to Arms
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Literature T.S. ElliotThe Waste LandSinclair Lewis
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Talkies From Silent film to Movies with sound!
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The Cotton Club Click photo to the left
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1920’s New Inventions Refrigerators Electric irons Radios Washing MachinesautomobilesSweepers
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