Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) John T. Scopes High School Biology teacher in Tennessee Teaches evolution Clarence Darrow vs William Jennings Bryan “Do you think the Earth was created in 6 days?” Scopes still found guilty
Scopes Monkey Trial
Issues with Prohibition 18th Amendment Speakeasies Secret saloons and clubs Bootleggers Leads to NASCAR Organized Crime Al Capone Chicago Bootlegging Empire
Changes for Women Flappers Able to vote More jobs available to them “Liberated and free” Short hair Short skirts (for 1920s standards) Smoked and Drank Able to vote More jobs available to them Could live independently
Flappers
Art & Literature F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemmingway John Steinbeck Great Gatsby Zelda Fitzgerald Ernest Hemmingway A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath William Faulkner As I Lay Dying Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age Louis Armstrong Langston Hughes Jazz Poetry Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God, Every Tongue Got to Confess Marcus Garvey NAACP Separate society
Louis Armstrong
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
Mass Culture Affordable consumer goods Radio Movies Model T 1st commercial radio station started in 1920 Movies Charlie Chaplin Model T $260 in 1924 Service Stations
Charlie Chaplin