1. ROARING TWENTIES

2. CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION

3. FLAPPERS

4. U NDERGROUND DRINKING

5. O RGANIZED C RIME By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business Organized crime came to control distribution of liquor & violent gang feuds started Al Capone For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!

6. RURAL LIFE Fundamentalists People that tried to preserve old values Anti-new (Baptist, Methodist)

7. S COPES T RIAL (M ONKEY T RIAL ) 1925 Tennessee teacher was arrested and found guilty for teaching evolution in school

8. C ITY LIFE RECREATION

9. 1920’ S FAST FACTS

10. 106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% Life expectancy: Male 53.6, Female 54.6 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) Average annual earnings $1236; Teacher's salary $970 Dow Jones High 100 Low 67 Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the population. Gangland crime included murder, swindles, racketeering It took 13 days to reach California from New York There were 387,000 miles of paved road.

11. 1920’ S S LANG

12. W ARREN G. H ARDING Believed in less government control of business Raised tariffs to highest level ever Presidency tarnished by scandal Secretary of Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserve to private companies Harding dies of a stroke

13. C ALVIN C OOLIDGE Continues Harding’s laissez-faire policies Economy booms

14. B OOMING E CONOMY GNP Model T; black Airplanes, plastics, appliances

15. P OST - WAR F ARMING Loss of European markets Blacks move north, looking for jobs