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U. S. HISTORY. AMERICAN LIFE CHANGES NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN Cultural Changes! New Opportunities: voting, running for office, changes in the workplace New.

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1 U. S. HISTORY

2 AMERICAN LIFE CHANGES NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN Cultural Changes! New Opportunities: voting, running for office, changes in the workplace New Family Roles: more women sought equality with men The Flapper: young women who defied traditional ideas of dress & behavior

3 EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION 1920’s time of great economic prosperity Distances between rural and urban areas “shrank” with cars, education, population, communication

4 CONFLICTS OVER VALLUES VALUES: key ideas and beliefs one holds Different “values” between urban and rural America Rise of Fundamentalism (literal interpretation of the Bible): Billy Sunday, Aimee McPherson SCOPES TRIAL: regarding teaching evolution

5 PROHIBITION Always important in American history – drive to outlaw alcohol grew in early 1900’s 18 th Amendment (1919): making, transporting, selling alcohol illegal VOLSTEAD ACT: law to enforce amendment Smuggling, bootleggers, crime

6 HARLEM RENAISSANCE Many blacks migrated to Harlem, New York (also to Chicago, Detroit, other urban areas) Racial tensions high, even in North Deadly riots

7 IMPORTANT BLACK AMERICANS In the 1920’s… W. E. B. DuBois: helped found NAACP Marcus Garvey: founded Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Other Harlem writers, poets, artists, performers, musicians: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith

8 NEW POPULAR CULTURE BORN MASS ENTERTAINMENT in the 1920’s: Radio Movies ERA OF HEROES: Film Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Valentino Pilots: Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart Sports: Red Grange, Babe Ruth Arts: F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin

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