note page 34 the roaring 20’s intro video to 1920’s
TRANSCRIPT
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
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
Video Clips:• Advertisements
from the 1920’s• Silent Film Ads
from the 1920’s
Prosperity
Growth of advertising industry
Productivity increases
Buying on the installment plan increases consumption
Ford and Prosperity
-assembly line production
-workers as consumers
-$5 day plan
Video Clips:• Flappers – The
Roaring 20’s• Women in the
1920’s
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
Banned alcohol
Many people resented the new law that regulated
behavior
Gov’t never tried to really enforce the law
Speakeasies
drinking clubs
Bootleggers
-growth of organized crime
Al Capone
Prohibition
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 (defense)
- William J. Bryan (Pros.)
Link – NPR Remembering the Scopes Trial
American Experience Website
Link - music
Form presidential candidate William Jennings BryanWas called as a “professional” witness on the Bible,He would admit Bible could not be taken literally.Scopes would be found guilty but only pay a fine….
Breakthrough for Science in Public Schools!
The Roaring 20’s