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Automobile•Changes America's landscape
• Paved roads• Liberated isolated rural
family
•Urban Sprawl: cities spread in all directions
• Ex. Raleigh v. European Cities
•Economic Underpinning of Cities
• Akron, Ohio• Detroit, Michigan• Pontiac, Michigan
• Symbol of Status: wealth• "rather let the kids starve
than sell the car"
Airplanes & Electrical Conveniences
• Carry mail for government• Disastrous, but gets better
• Navigation & Weather Forecasting
• Passenger Planes (Ford)
• Electrical Conveniences: • Radio• Washing Machine• Refrigerator• Sewing Machines• Vacuum • Toaster
Modern Advertising!
Prosperity?• America is prospering
• Believe it will last forever (Good Times)
• We all know what happens next…
• Preview of Why/How• Installment Plan: enables people
to buy goods over extended period of time without having to put much money down
• Ex. Layaway (Wal-mart/K-Mart)
• Americans are living in the present.• No care for the future
• (Scarlett O'Hara)
Rural vs. Urban• Rural:
– Safe, welcoming, neighborly greetings
• Small towns & communities
• Church = important (moral teachings)
• Urban: • Busy, competitive, impersonal & frightening• NYC: 5.6 million people• Chicago: 3 million people• Philadelphia: 2 million people
ProhibitionNew Ideas
Alcohol is part of new “city life”
Enforcement is lacking.
Speakeasies – secret bars
Bootleggers- smugglersLeads to organized
crime
Ex: Al Capone of Chicago
Old IdeasAlcohol is the root of social problems
18th Amendment created
Prohibition.(No sale, transport or consumption of
alcohol)
Science v. Religion(Scopes Trial)
New Ideas
Science: Darwin’s evolution theory should be taught
Scopes is a teacher who teaches evolution in
TN. (1925)
Gains world wide attention.
Clarence Darrow defends evolution.
Old IdeasReligion:
creationism should be taught from the Bible
Wm. Jennings Bryan defends creationism.
Scopes found guilty and fined
Clashing Values
Role of Women
New Ideas
•clothes
• New jobs
• 19th Amend / voting rights
•changes in attitudes & norms
Old Ideas
•rural areas don’t change• women have household duties• give up jobs for men• double standard still exists
Famous People of the 20s
• Babe Ruth: New York Yankee Slugger• 60 homeruns in 1 season
• Jack Dempsey: Heavyweight boxing champion
• Defeated by Gene Tunney • Red Grange: "Galloping Ghost" - Fighting
Irish aka Notre Dame• Knute Rockne: Norwegian-American
Football Player/Coach• Gertrude Ederle: 1st female to swim across
English Channel • Charles Lindbergh: flew the 1st solo flight
across the Atlantic Ocean & became America's hero
Famous People of the 20s
• Charlie Chaplin: famous movie star of the time• George Gershwin: combined Jazz with classical music• F. Scott Fitzgerald: wrote of the negative aspects of 1920s• Sinclair Lewis: 1st American to win Nobel Prize in literature
• Took am @ shallow, stifling existence of middle-class America• Ernest Hemingway: Lost Generation of writers
• Best-known expatriate author