Chapter 14 Section 2

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Chapter 14 Section 2 Life in the Twenties
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• Prohibition
• ban on distribution of alcohol
• 2. 18th Amendment ratified in 1919
• 3. Volstead Act passed in October to enforce
  Amendment.
• 4. Speakeasies- clubs where alcohol was sold
  illegally

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• 5. Bootlegging became profitable business
• Gangs controlled liquor sales in cities
• Al Scarface Capone ruled Chicago underworld
• Gang war peaked w/ St. Valentines Day Massacre in
  1929

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• Eliot Ness special agent in charge of a group
  to end corruption
• a. Nicknamed The Untouchables

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• 1931 Capone arrested for tax evasion
• 21st Amendment ratified in 1933
• Think. . .
• What were the positive and negative effects of
  prohibition?
• The_Rise_of_Prohibition_asf.asf

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• Youth Culture rejected previous generations
• 1. The New Woman
• a. womens dress and behavior changed
• b. the new woman was stylish,
  independent, and career minded
• c. flappers- defied traditional style of
  female behavior

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• College Life
• a. 1900-1930 college enrollment tripled
• b. Influenced pop culture and fashion

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• Leisure, Fun and Fads
• a. Dance marathons lasted days
• b. Beauty contests Miss America began in
  Atlantic City, NJ in 1921
• c. flagpole sitting drew crowds

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• Mass Entertainment leisure activities,
  spectator sports, and entertainment became big
  business
• 1. Radio quartz crystals made broadcasts
  more precise
• a. Dr. Frank Conrad of Westinghouse
  Electric and Manuf. Co. had twice- weekly
  broadcasts
• b. 8ZZ (KDKA) in Pittsburgh was first
  station

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• Fall of 1921, 1st World Series Broadcast
• ATT sent out first commercial
• Soon had National Broadcasting Company, and
  Columbia Broadcasting System
• - Kimberly Clark developed disposable
  handkerchief

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• Movies
• a. Cecil B. DeMille made The Ten
  Commandments
• b. 1927 The Jazz Singer was first talkie
• c. News reels summed up news of the day
• d. Changing sexuality troubled Americans
• e. Hays Code was created to set regulations

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• Sports
• a. With technology, sports became mass
  entertainment
• b. Red Grange football player
• c. Shoeless Joe, Chicago Black Sox scandal,
  accused of accepting money to lose world series
• d. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gerhig
  attracted new fans

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• 4. Books and Magazines
• a. Colliers and Saturday Evening Post drew
  readersb. Readers Digest designed for busy
  Americans with reprinted Articles in
  shortened form
• D. Celebrities and Heroes
• 1. Charles Lindberg biggest celeb of
  20s -flew non stop from NY to Paris in Spirit of
  St. Louis
• 2. Amelia Earhart first woman to fly across
  Atlantic

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• Lindberg.flv
• Lindberg TransAtlantic.flv

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Charles Lindberg The Spirit of St. Louis
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• E. Scopes Trial
• 1. TN outlawed Darwins theory of evolution
• 2. tested by ACLU

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• 3. John Scopes defended by Clarence Darrow
• 4. William Jennings Bryan was prosecutor
• known as Scopes Monkey Trial found guilty and
  fined 100
• Fundamentalism - accepting the Bible (religious
  text) as truth

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• Section 3 A Creative Era
• Music
• Jazz originated among African American musicians
  in the south, which also led to the blues.
• 2. Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
  were popular Jazz musicians

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• B. The Harlem Renaissance
• 1. Harlem, NY witnessed a burst of creativity in
  the 1920s
• 2. The movement instilled pride and interest in
  African culture.