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 AAl Capone EElliot Ness UUntouchables PUBLIC ENEMY # 1

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. George 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 LindbergH First nonstop Transatlantic flight MAY 1927

18. George Gershwi n Compos er

19. Georgia O’Keeffe Painter

20. Sinclair Lewis Nobel Peace Prize Winner

21. F. Scott Fitzgerald AUTHOR OF The Great Gatsby

23. Harlem was a Bustling Town

26. Langsto n Hughes

28. Louis B. Armstrong

29. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

30. Bessie Smith