1. Chapter 12 Review
A Prospering Society

2. The Automobile
More than any other consumer item, the car defined the American of the 1920s

3. Advertising
The idea of creating consumer demand

4. Advertising

5. Advertising

6. Flappers

7. The Jazz Age
Sports Heroes

8. Jazz Age
Charles Lindbergh – Solo flight across the Atlantic

9. Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong

10. The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem, New York City
African American literary and artistic movement
Writers, poets, artists
“No longer accept second-class citizenship”

11. Harlem Renaissance

12. Cultural Conflicts Power of Religion
Fundamentalism = literal truth of the Bible
Migrant farmers to cities

13. Scopes Trial
Religion vs. Science
Evolution in Schools

14. Failure of Prohibition
Refusal of the middle-class

15. Failure of Prohibition
Bootleggers

16. Failure of Prohibition
Gangs – bought breweries and transported illegal alcohol

17. Ku Klux Klan
Favored Prohibition
Hatred for African Americans

18. Ku Klux Klan
New enemies = Mexican Americans, Japanese and European immigrants, Jews, Catholics, French Canadiens

19. KKK & European Movements
Stressed:
Nationalism
Racial Purity
Attacked alien minority groups
Disapproved of the urban culture
Called for return to the past

20. The Challenge of Change
Those in power
White, Protestant, and Male
Still promoted small-town virtues, but the U.S. was rapidly changing into a modern, urban society