Ch. 21 Sect.1: Changing Ways of Life

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… • 1922-1929… • 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) • 1/1920 18th 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 • Speakeasies— • 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 • 1929 4.5 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