1. Tradition vs. modernism
Manroop kaur
Amanda mossberg
Lornea lopez
Cassandra Quijada

2. Scopes trial
In 1925, a Tennessee high school biology teacher, John Scopes, goes on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
It’s another example showing the difference between rural and urban culture and religion in the U.S.

3. Prohibition- eighteenth amendment and Volstead act
1920’s prohibition :the restriction of the production, sale, transportation, importation, and exportation of alcoholic beverages
Began when the 18th to the constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920
The Volstead act had been passed on October 28, enacted to enforce the 18th amendment; which was ratified on January 16, 1919

4. Bootleggers A person who created and/or obtained liquor
Liquor was outlawed in the USA during 1920’s
Could make liquor in bath tubs using simple ingredients
Often owned easy-speaks
Secret bars where customers hid from the authorities in order to drink the illegal liquor
Punishments-were sent to jail to serve a long sentence or had to pay fines and fees

5. 19th amendment During the 1920s, women were more liberated.
Women wanted same political and social rights as men
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote and gave them equal rights as men

6. Flappers
A fashionable young woman who drank, smoked, danced, wore makeup and was intent on enjoying herself
Before start of WW1, Gibson Girls(more conservative flappers) wore a long straight skirt with a high shirt collar and wore her hair long and loosely on top of her head
Feminine but played many sports
Waited for a proper man that had the best intentions with her (marriage)

7. Flappers Cont.
When the WW1 men returned home, they were expecting everything to be the same
When they got home, nothing was the same
Men acted differently
Made woman decide that they will live their lives and not wait around for a man
The “Younger Generation” was breaking away and more woman turned to be a “Flapper”

8. “lost generation”
American writers of the 1920s were called the lost generation because they didn’t have faith in the cultural ideas
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
T.S Eliot
Lead to famous novels and other forms of literature.