1. “the Business of America is Business!”
1920s a Return to Normalcy
“the Business of America is Business!”

2. 1920’s The JAZZ AGE The 18th Amendment and passage of the Volstead Act
The 19th Amendment women’s suffrage .
Silent MOVIES Talkies
Big City vs Small Town
The Model T

3. Prohibition The moral law that created irreverence
If you get rid of alcohol you get rid of poverty, homelessness and domestic violence. But you can’t stop S&D

4. Demand for liquor creates Supply
Good quality alcohol shipped from Canada or Europe, or moonshine from the hills. The value was so great it needed tommy guns to protect it

5. The City girl … flapper vs the country girl family values and modesty

6. HERO’s moralist Conservative Charles Lindbergh Liberal Huey Long
The Rise of the KKK
Henry Ford & the Model T

7. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Booker T. Washington’s Accommodationism W.E.B. Dubois Civil Activism
Marcus Garvey’s BACK TO AFRICA Movement

8. Scopes Monkey Trial
ACLU employs Clarence Darrow to defend John Scopes. William Jennings Bryan helps Prosecution

9. Election of 1928
Hubert Hoover Popular millionaire philanthropist and secretary of commerce runs against AL Smith Cigar smoking Catholic antiprohibitionist