Post on 08-Jan-2016
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Ladies Nite
• New Opportunities for women– Political office– More equality in the home
• Flappers shock society– Women smoke, wear makeup,
dance, hemlines rise– Flappers were a small minority
of American women, but it represented a change in attitudes
Effects of Urbanization
• 1920’s more people live in cities than in rural areas for the first time
• Farmers took a major hit after WWI
• Cars brought the rural areas to the cites
• For the first time in history more people lived in the city than in the country.
• Education increased as some states passed laws on education.
Conflicts over Values
• Americans lived in larger communities, which produced a shift in values, or a person’s key beliefs and ideas.
• Ku Klux Klan grew dramatically in the 1920s
You’ve Got to Rise Up
• Fundamentalism– Bible is a literal statement
of God’s will
– Billy Sunday revivals are extremely popular, especially among white rural Americans
– Aimee Semple McPherson was a well-known for healing the sick through prayer
Scopes Monkey Trial
• Fundamentalists forbid teaching of Darwin’s evolution theory in Tennessee– William Jennings
Bryant was prosecutor
– Clarence Darrow, a famous attorney, represented Scopes