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Life in the Roaring Twenties

• Chapter 13

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I.) Growth of the City

• Between 1922 and 1929 population shift to cities
• 1. Cities were the place to be, not to get away
  from
• 2. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia largest
  cities
• 3. Fast paced life w/ drinking, gambling,
  dancing, shows, dating

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• Women of the Twenties
• 1. Women begin to assert their freedom and
  demand equality w/men
• Result
• The Flapper- an emancipated young women
  who embraced the
• new
  fashions and attitudes of the day
• Disclaimer
• This DID NOT reflect the attitude and
  values of ALL young people

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• Role Changes at Home
• 1. new work opportunities emerge
• a. female colleges
• b. old stereotypes
• Result discrimination in the workplace
• emerge
• 2. the family and household changes
• a. birth control
• b. technological innovations for
• household labor family life
• c. greater equality in marriage
• d. teens become rebellious

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II.) The Prohibition Age

• 18th Amendment 1920 amendment banning of the
  manufacture,
• sale,
  and transportation of alcoholic beverages
• 1. Volstead Act of 1919- established a
  prohibition bureau to enforce
• 
  the amendment
• Results
• 1. Speakeasies underground nightclubs and
  salons where people
• went to obtain
  liquor illegally
• 2. Bootleggers people who smuggled alcohol
  illegally into the U.S.
• 3. Organized Crime gangsters who created
  bootlegging empires
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  committing various crimes along the way
• C. Outcome
• 1. Repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933

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III.) The Clash of Science vs. Religion

• Traditional and Modern values begin to clash in
  the 1920s
• (Religious Groups) (Secular Thinkers)
• 1. American Fundamentalism- protestant movement
  based on strict
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  interpretation of the Bible
• a. Billy Sunday- led religious revivals based
  on authority of Bible
• b. leads to laws against teaching of evolution
  in schools

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• B. The Scopes Monkey Trial
• 1. March 1925 TN passes law against teaching of
  evolution in school
• and John Scopes (biology teacher)
  arrested for teaching evolution
• a. Clarence Darrow- trial lawyer ACLU hires to
  defend Scopes
• b. William Jennings Bryan- served as prosecutor
  expert on Bible
• 2. Trial starts July 1925 (draws national
  attention)
• 3. Found guilty and fined 100 (ban remains in
  effect)