Postwar Social Change

1. Postwar Social Change Chapter 20

2. Women’s Changing Roles • Flapper Image • Young • Energetic • Rebellious • Fun loving • Bold • Confident

3. Working Voting Only 35 % of registered voters voted 11 % did not vote due to lack of interest It would take time before women made voting a habit • Many jobs refused to hire women • Would not let women advance past entry level positions • Expected to quit if they became pregnant

4. American Heroes “Lucky Lindy” Amelia Earhart First women to fly across Atlantic in 1928 Attempted to fly around the world Disappeared in the Pacific 2/3 of the way there • Charles Lindbergh • Flew from New York to Paris in 33 ½ hours in 1927 • Showed American innovation

5. “The Spirit of St. Louis”

6. Heroes cont. Jim Thorpe George “Babe” Ruth 714 homeruns 60 homeruns in 154 game season • Won decathlon • Pentathlon • Played pro baseball • 1st president of what became known as the NFL

7. Mass Media • U.S is a large collection of regional cultures • Most Americans simply did not understand what went on in other parts of the country

8. Media Newspapers Movies Movie attendance increases from 40 million per week to 80 million 100 % increase Films switched from silent to sound • Between 1920 and 1929 newspaper sales grew from 27 million to 40 million • 42% increase • Began focusing on tabloids (fashion, sports, crime, scandal)

9. Radio • 1920 – 1929 households with radio’s increase from 60,000 to 10,250,000 • Increase of 16,983 % • The country began listening to the same news, jokes, stories, and commercials

10. Prohibition (18th amendment) • Bootlegging • Alcohol could no longer be produced • This created a new type of criminal • Speakeasies • Bars that operated illegally • 4,000 in Boston • 700 in D.C

11. Organized Crime • Rival gangs began fighting for control of territory • Cities became battlegrounds for: • Gambling • Prostitution • Racketeering (Paying police for protection) • Bootlegging

12. Al Capone • Ran the largest gangster organization in the U.S (Chicago) • 1925 Scarface made 60 million from bootlegging • Sentenced to prison in 1931 for tax evasion

13. Capone (Mugshot) St. Valentines Day Massacre

14. Fundamentalism Evolution Creationism Religious belief that some sort of supernatural being created Human life Earth The universe • Life was created from organisms that evolved into what they are today

15. Racial Tensions (1920’s) • Great Migration brings African Americans to the Northeast, they find violence there • Summer of 1919 known as “Red Summer” for racial violence in D.C, Tulsa, and Chicago • 537 wounded in Chicago

16. Revival of KKK (Ku Klux Klan) • In 1922 membership is at 100,000 • In 1924 it is 4 million • Vowed to defend white Protestant culture, not just blacks that seemed to them un – American • Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others

17. KKK by definition • Several different past and present groups that use hate crimes and intimidation to protect the rights and further the interest of white Americans • Record of using violence by murdering African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, and other minority groups

18. Propaganda Rally (1923)