1. Ch. 21 Sect.1: Changing Ways of Life

2. Main Idea/Objectives
Americans experienced cultural conflicts as customs and values changed in the 1920s
1. Explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the values of traditional rural society.

3. What you will learn about…
Prohibition
Speakeasy
Bootlegger

4. Rural and Urban Differences
51% lived in communities with… …
Small town attitudes

5. The New Urban Scene NYC 5.6 million Chicago 3 million Philly 2 million
65 cities…
Chicago had…
City was a world of competition and change
Streets filled with…
Rural vs. urban

6. The Prohibition Experiment(PBS)
1/ th Amendment
Prime cause of corruption
Drinking led to…
Rural South and West gave most support
After WWI
Volstead Act
Prohibition Cartoons

8. Speakeasies and Bootleggers
Found in…
How did people get in?
Bootleggers—

10. Organized Crime Chicago and Al Capone How much did his business make?
522 gang killings
Mid-1920s, 19% US supported Prohibition
Ended 1933 with 21st Amendment

11. Ch.21 Sect.2: The Twenties Woman

12. Main Idea/Objectives
American women pursued new lifestyles and assumed new jobs and different roles in society during the 1920s.
1. Explain how the image of the flapper embodied the changing values and attitudes of young women in the 1920s.
2. Identify the causes and results of the changing roles of women in the 1920s.

13. What you will learn about…
Flapper
Double Standard

14. The Flapper Flapper— They wore… Hairstyle… Cigarettes, drinking, sex
Marriage attitude changed

15. The Double Standard Flapper was an image
Did it reflect values and attitudes of young people?
Churches and schools…
Casual dating
Double standard—

16. New Work Opportunities
Industrial economy…
After war, females replaced with males
“women’s professions”
Big business…
Mens jobs…
1930, 10 million working women
Discrimination and inequality established

17. The Changing Family Birthrate down Margaret Sanger
Social and tech innovations
Public agencies…
Equality in marriage
Children…
Work and family stress
Teens in the 1920s

18. Ch.21 Sect.3: Education and Popular Culture

19. Main Idea/Objectives
The mass media, movies, and sports played important roles in creating the popular culture of the 1920s.
1. Describe the popular culture of the 1920s.

20. What you will learn about…
Lindburgh
Gershwin
O’Keeffe
Fitzgerald
Hemingway

21. School Enrollments 1914 1 million high school students 1926 4 million
High schools in the 1920s
Challenge…
Taxes increased…
Total cost of education was 2.7 billion

22. Expanding News Coverage
Literacy was on the rise
Newspaper circulation rose
Magazines summarized…
Readers Digest
Time

23. Radio Most powerful medium “airwaves” “radio audience” “tune in”
Hear the news as it happened

24. New Heroes and Old Dreams
billion spent
Crossword puzzles and mahjong
King Tut
Professional sports events
Old School Baseball Game

25. Lindbergh’s Flight Charles A. Lindbergh What was the prize?
Name of plane…
How long?
What did he do when he got back to the US?
What did he stand for?
Amelia Earhart

26. Gertrude Ederle

27. Helen Wills

28. Andrew “Rube” Foster

29. Entertainment and the Arts
The Jazz Singer
Steamboat Willie
“talkies”
The Hairy Ape
George Gershwin
Edward Hopper
Georgia O’Keeffe

30. The Jazz Singer

31. Walt Disney

32. George Gershwin

37. Georgia O’Keeffe

38. Sinclair Lewis

39. F. Scott Fitzgerald

40. Dorothy Parker

41. Writers Edith Wharton F. Scott Fitzgerald (Movie Trailer)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lost Generation
Ernest Hemingway