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Chapter 21
The Roaring Twenties
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
18th Amendment Prohibition Selling Manufacturing Consumption Transportation
Speakeasies
Dancing Drinking Women Gambling
Organized Crime
Al Capone Elliot Ness Untouchables
Elliot Ness and the Untouchables
Science and Religion Clash
Fundamentalism
Skeptical of scientific knowledge Important knowledge found in Bible Rejected the theory of evolution Believed God;s creation story from
Bible
Scopes Trial John T. Scopes –
Biology teacher in Tennessee
Clarence Darrow William Jennings
Bryan Evolution vs.
Biblical Social Darwinism
Women of the 1920’s
Flappers Casual Dating Swim Suits
changed Courtships
Changed Double Standard
A changing Culture
School enrollments went up Mass Media Radio Broadcasts News Coverage
American Heroes and Icons
Gertrude Ederle
James Herman
Ruth
“Babe”
“Sultan of Swat”
Andrew “Rube” Foster
Founder of the Negro National League
Helen Wills“Little Miss Poker Face”
Charles Lindberg
First nonstop Transatlantic
flight
George Gershwin
Composer
Georgia O’Keeffe
Painter
Sinclair LewisNobel peace prize winner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
The Harlem Renaissance
A literary and Artistic movement celebrating African America
Culture
Harlem was a Bustling town
Langston Hughes
Louis B. Armstrong
Edward Kennedy “Duke”
Ellington
Bessie Smith