1. Just the Facts
Documentary

2. America Dries Up Help the poor by banning alcohol Jan 16, 1920 – 1933
Speakeasies were secret bars
Bootlegging – making illegal alcohol

3. “The Business of America is Business”
Gov’t was pro-business
Little or no gov’t interference
Ppl. invested in the stock market – on borrowed money

4. Highest Quality of Life
Natural gas, running water more available
Electricity – safer way to light your house
THE RADIO!
Cars – growth of suburbs

5. Progress for Women 19th Amendment under Pres. Wilson
Voted in first nat’l election in 1920
Social issues important – working conditions
Women going to school, graduating, working

6. “Flaming Youth” Distinct culture – movies, music and dance
Loose dresses and baggy pants for guys
Carefree youth

7. Leisure Time Movies – Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow
First movie with sound – 1927
College football very popular
Boxing exciting sport to listen to on radio

8. The Jazz Age Home of jazz – New Orleans
Danced to jazz music in clubs and speakeasies
Cotton Club – popular jazz club

9. Harlem Renaissance Movement in NY – literature and politics as well
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey - UNIA

10. Nativism Restrictive immigration law b/c of nativism
Whites who believed they had the rights to the land

11. The Red Scare Fear of Communism
Thought radicals would overthrow the gov’t

12. The Monkey Trial Called this by the press
Court sided with fundamentalists
Teacher fined for teaching evolution

13. Heroes, Villians, and Scandals
Newspapers LOVED scandals
Charles Lindbergh – first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Al Capone – controlled 10,000 speakeasies at one point

14. The Crash
October 29, 1929
Buying stocks on margin