1920s Headlines

2. FUNDAMENTALIST FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS ON THE TEAM THAT ARGUED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE TENNESSEE ANTI-EVOLUTION TEACHING LAW. FAMOUS TRIAL LAWYER, 70 YEAR OLD CLARENCE DARROW LED THE DEFENSE. THE TRIAL TURNED INTO A STRUGGLE OVER WHO WOULD DOMINATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. TRADITIONALISTS WHO THOUGHT OLD TIME VALUES WERE IN DANGER OR MODERNISTS WHO BELIEVED NEW IDEAS MUST PREDOMINATE. FUNDAMENTALIST FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS ON THE TEAM THAT ARGUED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE TENNESSEE ANTI-EVOLUTION TEACHING LAW. FAMOUS TRIAL LAWYER, 70 YEAR OLD CLARENCE DARROW LED THE DEFENSE. THE TRIAL TURNED INTO A STRUGGLE OVER WHO WOULD DOMINATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. TRADITIONALISTS WHO THOUGHT OLD TIME VALUES WERE IN DANGER OR MODERNISTS WHO BELIEVED NEW IDEAS MUST PREDOMINATE.

3. THE TRIAL WAS BASICALLY SET UP BY SEVERAL RESIDENTS OF DAYTON, TENNESSEE WHO WISHED TO GET PUBLICITY FOR THEIR TOWN IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH.THE TRIAL WAS BASICALLY SET UP BY SEVERAL RESIDENTS OF DAYTON, TENNESSEE WHO WISHED TO GET PUBLICITY FOR THEIR TOWN IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH.

5. LINDBERGH FLEW TO PARIS IN 33 1/2 HOURS, 1,000 MILES OF THE FLIGHT WAS THROUGH SNOW AND SLEET, MAY 21, 1927 LINDBERGH FLEW TO PARIS IN 33 1/2 HOURS, 1,000 MILES OF THE FLIGHT WAS THROUGH SNOW AND SLEET, MAY 21, 1927

9. BY 1933 THE VALUE OF STOCK ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE WAS LESS THAN A FIFTH OF WHAT IT HAD BEEN AT ITS PEAK IN 1929. BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSED THEIR DOORS, FACTORIES SHUT DOWN AND BANKS FAILED. FARM INCOME FELL SOME 50 PERCENT. BY 1932 APPROXIMATELY ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR AMERICANS WAS UNEMPLOYED. The core of the problem was the immense disparity between the country's productive capacity and the ability of people to consume. Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity of U.S. farmers and wage earners. The savings of the wealthy and middle class, increasing far beyond the possibilities of sound investment, had been drawn into frantic speculation in stocks or real estate. BY 1933 THE VALUE OF STOCK ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE WAS LESS THAN A FIFTH OF WHAT IT HAD BEEN AT ITS PEAK IN 1929. BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSED THEIR DOORS, FACTORIES SHUT DOWN AND BANKS FAILED. FARM INCOME FELL SOME 50 PERCENT. BY 1932 APPROXIMATELY ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR AMERICANS WAS UNEMPLOYED. The core of the problem was the immense disparity between the country's productive capacity and the ability of people to consume. Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity of U.S. farmers and wage earners. The savings of the wealthy and middle class, increasing far beyond the possibilities of sound investment, had been drawn into frantic speculation in stocks or real estate.

10. Review These are the major headlines for the 1920�s Lindbergh�s trans Continental flight has to be one of the biggest The Scopes Monkey trial showed that religion and science were not allowed to mix The number one had to be the 1928 failure of the Stock Market. In simple terms of lives that hung in the balance