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