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ROARING TWENTIES
CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION
Harlem Renaissance
JAZZ
UNDERGROUND DRINKING
ORGANIZED CRIME
• By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business
•Organized crime came to control distribution of liquor & violent gang feuds started
Al Capone
For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!
RURAL LIFE
Fundamentalists People that tried to preserve old
values Anti-new (Baptist, Methodist)
SCOPES TRIAL (MONKEY TRIAL) 1925
Tennessee teacher was arrested and found guilty for teaching evolution in school
CITY LIFE RECREATION
1920’S FAST FACTS
106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% Life expectancy: Male 53.6, Female 54.6 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in
1919) Average annual earnings $1236; Teacher's salary
$970 Dow Jones High 100 Low 67 Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the
population. Gangland crime included murder, swindles,
racketeering It took 13 days to reach California from New York
There were 387,000 miles of paved road.
1920’S SLANG
WARREN G. HARDING
Believed in less government control of business
Raised tariffs to highest level ever
Presidency tarnished by scandal Secretary of Interior leases
Teapot Dome oil reserve to private companies
Harding dies of a stroke
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Continues Harding’s laissez-faire policies
Economy booms
BOOMING ECONOMY
GNP Model T; black Airplanes, plastics, appliances
POST-WAR FARMING
Loss of European markets Blacks move north, looking for jobs