Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s
Prohibition: 18th Amendment Goals:
Eliminate drunkenness Domestic Abuse
Get rid of saloons Prevent Absenteeism
Prohibition Problems Bootlegging
Selling booze illegally Speakeasies
Illegal Bars Stats:
Mass. before 1,000 bars Boston after 4,000 bars
Prohibition Problems Organized Crime
Bootlegging = $$$ Gangs fight for territory
Racketeering Bribing police to ignore
illegal activities then made businesses pay for protection
Prohibition Problems Al Capone
Most notorious gangster of 1920s
Chicago St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre Arrested for tax evasion
The “Red Scare”: Fear of Foreigners
Russian Revolution Sacco & Vanzetti J. Edgar Hoover A. Mitchell Palmer
Issues of Religion Fundamentalism
Traditional Christian ideas about Jesus
God inspired Bible, literally true
Billy Sunday
Issues of Religion Scopes Trial
John T. Scopes teaches evolution
William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow
Mass Media Clash of values
Roles Change: Women / Education 19th Amendment Flappers Increase in high
school and college enrollment.
Racial Tensions Violence against Blacks
1919, “Red Summer” Race Riots
Chicago (Worst) Omaha Tulsa Washington D.C.
Lynching Continue
Omaha Race Riot of 1919
Racial Tensions Revival of the KKK
Fuel by fear of foreigners
Against all “Un-American”
Membership 1922: 100,000 1924: 4 million 1927: Declines
Racial Tensions Fighting Discrimination
NAACP Anti-Lynching Laws Voting Rights
The Garvey Movement Marcus Garvey UNIA
Progress??? Harlem Renaissance Music / Art / Literature Based out of Harlem The Great Migration
Louis Armstrong
Besse Smith
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
People and things we know 1920’s Automobile Radio Washing Machine Refrigerator Vacuum Cleaner Sewing Machine Sound Movies Phonograph Shopping Malls - Credit
Babe Ruth “Rube” Foster G. Ederle C. Lindbergh F. Scott Fitzgerald E. Hemmingway J. Dempsey Gene Tunney Bobby Jones
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