1. What you and your group did come up with, please write down
1920s Chart
What you and your group did come up with, please write down

2. Women 19th amendment—right to vote
New freedoms—fashion, makeup, jobs, activites
Flappers—rebellious young girls who wore short skirts, had bobbed hair, drank, smoked, and danced

3. Prohibition 18th amendment
Had the opposite effect—Americans drank more!
Speakeasies, bootlegging
Increase in crime—all centered around smuggling alcohol
Hard for law enforcement to enforce

4. Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration—African Americans move north to escape discrimination and for jobs in the cities
African American culture—Poetry, Langston Hughes, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Cotton Club, artists
Black pride and Nationalism

5. Consumerism People begin to spend more on wants than needs
Goods become cheaper due to mass production
Advertising to sell goods
Installment plans (credit)

6. Entertainment Radios become cheaper and most homes have one
Radios spread information and common culture
More free time—spend more money, need more entertainment
Sports, Movies, Radio
Rise of celebrities—Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth

7. Values Rural = conservative/traditional Urban = modern ideas
Fundamentalism—the Bible should be taken literally
Scopes “Monkey” trial—Tennessee teacher broke law and taught evolution in classroom
Clarence Darrow—modern lawyer fighting for evolution; William Jennings Bryan—fundamentalist defending the Bible and creationism