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Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties?

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

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Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties?

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  1. Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties? Chapter 20: Section 1

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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Prohibition • 1917 more than half of the states prohibited alcohol • Al Capone • Speakeasies • Bootleggers

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