Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties?

Chapter 20: Section 1

The Main Idea

The United States experienced many social changes during the 1920s.

Ladies Nite

• New Opportunities for women– Political office– More equality in the home

• Flappers shock society– Women smoke, wear makeup,

dance, hemlines rise– Flappers were a small minority

of American women, but it represented a change in attitudes

Effects of Urbanization

• 1920’s more people live in cities than in rural areas for the first time

• Farmers took a major hit after WWI

• Cars brought the rural areas to the cites

• For the first time in history more people lived in the city than in the country.

• Education increased as some states passed laws on education.

Conflicts over Values

• Americans lived in larger communities, which produced a shift in values, or a person’s key beliefs and ideas.

• Ku Klux Klan grew dramatically in the 1920s

You’ve Got to Rise Up

• Fundamentalism– Bible is a literal statement

of God’s will

– Billy Sunday revivals are extremely popular, especially among white rural Americans

– Aimee Semple McPherson was a well-known for healing the sick through prayer

Scopes Monkey Trial

• Fundamentalists forbid teaching of Darwin’s evolution theory in Tennessee– William Jennings

Bryant was prosecutor

– Clarence Darrow, a famous attorney, represented Scopes

Prohibition

• 1917 more than half of the states prohibited alcohol

• Al Capone

• Speakeasies

• Bootleggers