1. Chapter 24: The 1920’s Bring Social Change
Manners and Morals Change
Women Enjoy New Careers and Life Styles
A Black Renaissance Emerges
Education and Popular culture Change

2. Manners and Morals Change
Rural Life vs. Urban Life
Cities were Liberal
Rural were Conservative
1920’s Census
Urban excitement
Religion clashes with science
Scopes Trial – “Monkey Trial”
Clarence Darrow vs. William J. Bryan

3. Fundamentalism
The Protestant movement based on the literal interpretation of the Bible.
Were against science.
Were against the theory of evolution.
Evolution- Theory that animals evolve from one another.
Held religious revivals.

4. Scopes trial
Tennessee passed the first law which made it illegal to teach evolution.
John Scopes, a biology teacher, was arrested for teaching evolution.
Clarence Darrow was hired to defend Scopes.
William Jennings Bryan, a fundamentalist, was the prosecuting attorney.

5. Scopes trial (con’t)
The trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in the classroom.
Darrow called Bryan as an expert on the Bible.
Bryan admitted that he believed God did not create the earth in 6, 24 hour days.
Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.

6. Manners and Morals Change - continued
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Temperance Movement
Speakeasies
Bootlegging
Gangsters
Al Capone
St. Valentines Day Massacre

7. Prohibition
Banned to sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol.
18th Amendment: Made alcohol illegal.
Speakeasies: Hidden saloons and nightclubs where people went to drink alcohol illegally.

8. Bootleggers
Name of smugglers who brought alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies.
Some people made their own alcohol and sold it.
Alcohol used for religious services skyrocketed and so did prescriptions for alcohol.

9. Prohibition

10. Organized Crime
Chicago, home of Al Capone, who was a gangster with a bootlegging empire.
“Untouchables”
Capone killed his competition, literally.
522 gang killings happened b/c of Capone
Capone was worth $100 million.
He died of syphilis at 48.

11. Women Enjoy New Careers and Life Styles
Women Suffrage
19th Amendment
Carrie Chapman Catt
20’s Women
Liberation
Flappers
“bob” Hairstyle
Double Standards
New Work Opportunities
Changing Family Life-style

12. Flapper Young women who wore shorter dresses and urban attitudes.
They chopped their hair short into bobs.
Smoked, drank, and talked openly about sex in public- not what young ladies were supposed to do.
Had bad reputations.

13. Double standard
Set of principles granting sexual freedom to men rather than women.
Women have stricter rules for behavior than men do.

14. A Black Renaissance Emerges
Harlem Renaissance
The Great Migration
Paul Robeson (actor)
Louie Armstrong (jazz)
Bessie Smith (blues singer)
Duke Ellington (jazz)
Cotton Club

15. Harlem Renaissance
A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.
Writers:
Claude McKay wrote poems and novels.
Langston Hughes was a poet.

16. Famous African-Americans

17. Black Renaissance - continued
W.E.B. DuBois
Niagara Movement
N.A.A.C.P.
Marcus Garvey
“Black is Beautiful”
Jim Crow Laws
James Weldon Johnson
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

18. New Goals NAACP founded in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois
James Weldon Johnson helped the NAACP fight for laws to be passed to protect African Americans.
Tried to pass antilynching laws, but none of them passed.

19. Education and Popular Culture Change
Increasing Enrollment
Property Taxes
Educating Immigrants
News Coverage
Tabloids
Ballyhoo
Weekly Magazines
Radio

20. Hereos Charles A. Lindbergh George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Harold “Red” Grange
Knute Rockne
Jack Dempsey
Big Bill Tilden
Bobby Jones

21. Heroes

22. Popular Culture Hollywood Yiddish Theatre Broadway Composers
Charlie Chaplin
Al Jolson
Yiddish Theatre
Broadway
The Great White Way
Eugene O’Neill
Composers
George Gershwin

23. Popular Culture Writers Materialism F. Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis
This Side of Paradise
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gentry
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land

24. Famous Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Edna St. Vincent Millay: wrote poetry celebrating life of independence & freedom.
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

25. Writers