Lives of the People

-once isolated rural communities

tightly controlled values

high standards of religious morality

-migration of more people to urban areas changed moral values

less control over the whole community

-fast paced city life often intimidated or changed people

Sunday Driving Sunday Driving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4KrIMZpwCYv=S4KrIMZpwCY

Standard of Living : Americans owned 40% of the World’s Wealth -”business of America is

business”-Pres. Calvin Coolidge

-effects of the automobile

freedom to travel w/Paved roads, Liberated the rural fam.

urban sprawl: allowed workers to live away from work

* Famous Route 66, Launched gas Stations & shopping centers, 1/5

-airlines develop 1927 Pan AM

-electricity lights the whole nation

alternating current (Tesla)

-growth of the radio industry

Standard of Living

-”business of America is business”

-effects of the automobile

freedom to travel

urban sprawl

-airlines develop

-electricity lights the whole nation

alternating current (Tesla)

-growth of the radio industry

• Times focus on the Present- NOT the Times focus on the Present- NOT the futurefuture

• What could go wrong w/the 20s?What could go wrong w/the 20s?– Throw your cares to the WindThrow your cares to the Wind

Prosperity

-growth of advertising industry: hiring psychologist to study how to appeal to people’s desire for youthfulness, beauty & health

-productivity increases by 50%

-buying on the installment plan increases consumption (enabled people an extended period to buy goods, w/o having to put much $ down)

-Ford and Prosperity

-assembly line production

-workers as consumers

-$5 day plan

New Role of Independent Women

-Victorian Age view of women

-flapper was a young emancipated women of modern times

hair styles, dress, attitudes, behavior

-double standard of behavior

-clash of conservative values-moved to the cites where drinking, gambling & casual dating was considered

-Opportunities increase

-families change: marriage was considered an equal partnership

Margaret Sanger and birth control 1921

New Role of Women

-Victorian Age view of women

-flapper was a young women of modern times

hair styles, dress, attitudes, behavior

-double standard of behavior

-clash of conservative values

-Opportunities increase

-families change

Margaret Sanger and birth control

Prohibition Volstead Act

-banned alcohol Jan 1920

-many people resented the new law that regulated behavior

-gov’t never tried to really enforce the law

-speakeasies

drinking clubs: hidden night clubs- spoke easily

-bootleggers : people that smuggled liquor

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Prohibition

-speakeasies

drinking clubs

-bootleggers

-growth of organized crime

Al Capone: Notorious by Chicago’s standards, by 26 ran a network of 10,000 speakeasies, made over 60million in 1 yr

Science and Religion

-Fundamentalism

religious movement focusing on the truth/ literal meaning of the Bible- rejected evolution

-Billy Sunday preached against the evils of drinkning

-Aimee Semple McPherson : used Hollywood showmanship to preach the word

-Darwin’s Theory of Evolution : we evolved from Monkeys

-Scopes Trial

John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution Tenn. 1925

Clarence Darrow : defend Scopes

William J. Bryan: Lawyer against

Scopes Trial : fight over Evolution

& the role of science & religion in

Public schools

Science and Religion

-Fundamentalism

religious movement focusing on the truth of the Bible

-Billy Sunday

-Aimee Semple McPherson

-Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

-Scopes Trial

John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution

Clarence Darrow

William J. Bryan

Science and Religion

-Fundamentalism

religious movement focusing on the truth of the Bible

-Billy Sunday

-Aimee Semple McPherson

-Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

-Scopes Trial

John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution

Clarence Darrow

William J. Bryan