20:3 The Business of America

Calvin Coolidge

• “The chief business of the American people is business”~Coolidge

• Republican policies supported business growth– Taxes– Business loans

Automobile

• Roads, houses, gas stations, repair shops, motels, tourist camps, shopping centers, etc.

• Route 66• Urban Sprawl

Impact on lifestyles

• Rural families• Youth independence

Motor Cities

• Detroit• Akron

Status Symbol

• “I’ll go without food before I see us give up the car.”• Home• abroad

Airline Industry

• 1918 U.S. Post Office• Charles Lindberg• Amelia Earhart• 1927 Pan American Airways

Lindberg baby kidnappingTrial of the Century

Good Times

• Income rose• Spending rose

Electricity

• Powered factories• Spread to suburbs• Effect on factory production• Effect on women

Modern Advertising

• Psychological appeals• Slogans• Brand names

Buying on Credit

• Installment plans• Advantages• disadvantages

21:1 Changing Ways of Life

Prohibition

• 18th amendment• Liquor cause of corruption• Temperance organizations

Failure of the Volstead Act

• Funding• Borders• Home manufacture• Legally used

Speakeasy

• “Hidden” saloons

Bootleggers

• Smugglers• Cuba, West Indies, Canada

Organized Crime

• Al Capone/Scarface• Chicago Empire• St. Valentines Day massacre

1980s Scarface

Eliot Ness

• Department of Justice• “The Untouchables”• 1931 tax evasion

21st amendment

• Prohibition caused more problems than alcohol consumption– Crime– Illness– Chart pg. 643

American Fundamentalism

• Literal interpretation of the bible• All important imformation is in the bible• Religious movement-S & W

Darwin’s Origin of the Species

• Plants and animals evolved over millions of years• Rejected by Fundamentalists

Scopes “Monkey” Trial

• John T. Scopes arrested• Clarence Darrow-defense attorney (evolutionists)• William Jennings Bryan-prosecutor

(fundamentalists/creationists)• 24 hour day????