1. Changing Ways of Life p

2. Objectives
Explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the values of traditional rural society
Describe the controversy over the role of science and religion in American education and society in the 1920s

3. Rural and Urban Differences
The New Urban Scene
51.2% of Americans lived in larger communities
2,000,000 people were leaving the farms and small towns each year
“cities were the place to be, not to get away from”

4. Rural and Urban Differences
The New Urban Scene (cont.)
The Prohibition Experiment
65 other cities had populations of over 100,000
Faster
More educated
Competitive
Looser morals
City life
Prohibition
Manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was legally prohibited
18th Amendment
Alcohol seen as the prime source of corruption
The Volstead Act
Established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department
Poorly funded, near impossible job

5. Rural and Urban Differences
Speakeasies and Bootleggers
Organized Crime
Speakeasies
Underground hidden saloons and nightclubs
Presented a card or password
Bootleggers
Smugglers who brought in alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies
Al Capone
Gangster with a $60 million a year empire.
Chicago
Killed off his competition
522 gang related killings in Chicago
19% of Americans supported prohibition
18th Amendment repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment

6. Science and Religion Clash
American Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism
Movement grounded in a literal, or non-symbolic, interpretation of the bible
Skeptical of some scientific discoveries
Rejected Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Creation vs Evolution
Billy Sunday
Former baseball player
Used emotion to preach
Radio broadcasts
Called for prohibition of teaching evolution

7. Science and Religion Clash
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trail
A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
John T. Scopes
Biology teacher in Dayton, TN
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Clarence Darrow
ACLU hired lawyer, defended Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
Special prosecutor
Court was held outside to handle the number of Bryan supporters
Found guilty and fined $100

8. What was life like in cities during the 1920s
What was life like in cities during the 1920s? What were some of the causes and effects of Prohibition? What did fundamentalists believe about the biblical account of creation?