Chapter 21

• Rural and Urban Differences:– Immigration to cities:

– Shift to the cities: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia

Prohibition (1919) – 18th Amendment: the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol is prohibited

• Speakeasies –hidden saloons and nightclubs

Bootleggers – carrying liquor in the legs of boots!!

St. Valentines Day Massacre

Prohibition raid

Scopes Monkey Trial

•Fundamentalism – protestant movement interpreting the bible literally or nonsymbolically

• Scopes Trial – fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools

William Jenning Bryan

Checking For Understanding

• On a piece of paper explain the following:–How do the clash over

evolution, the prohibition experiment and the emerging urban scene exhibit changes and continuities over time?

Flappers of the1920’s doing the “Charleston”

Flappers – emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes

Changes: Women in the 1920’s

Lifestyles

JobsFamilies

High School Education quadrupled in the years between 1914-1926.

KDKA – (Pittsburg) was the first radio station on the air

Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey

Gertrude Ederle

Helen Wills

Historic Aviators

Amelia Earhart

Charles Lindberg

Entertainment and the Arts

Concert composer – George Gershwin

Georgia O’Keefe - artist

The Lost Generation – wrote about the greed and materials of America of 1920’s

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sinclair Lewis

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Other members of the Lost Generation of Writers

African-American Voices of the 1920’s

James Weldon – Poet ,lawyer and secretary for the organization

Harlem Renaissance – flowering of creativity, a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.

Claude McKay – poet and novelist

Langston Hughes

If We Must Die By: Claude McKayIf we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,Making their mock at our accursèd lot.If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Creole Jazz Band – Great trumpet player

Jazz Pianist & Composer played at the famed Cotton Club

Bessie Smith – Blues Singer

Cab Calloway – singer, dancer, drummer, saxophonist