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1920s

Sacco. Margaret Gorman. 1920s. Vanzetti. The Age of Wonderful Nonsense. 1927 Model T. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Warren Harding. Prohibition. Started in 1800s w/Temperance Movement Eighteenth Amendment (1919) Ban on alcohol Combat crime Family violence Poverty.

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1920s

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  1. Sacco Margaret Gorman 1920s Vanzetti The Age of Wonderful Nonsense 1927 Model T St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Warren Harding

  2. Prohibition • Started in 1800s w/Temperance Movement • Eighteenth Amendment (1919) • Ban on alcohol • Combat crime • Family violence • Poverty

  3. Prohibition Continued Negative Factors Positive Factors Decrease Alcoholism Alcohol related deaths decline Twenty-first Amendment • Bootlegging • Criminal gangs • Large cities controlled liquor sales • Al Capone • Gang violence • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  4. Youth Culture • Flappers - Modern Woman • Stylish • Own career • Social freedom • Economic independence • Bobbed short hair • Drove cars • Played sports • Independent

  5. Youth Culture • College life • Before • Education ended after high school • During • Enrollments tripled • New target group for advertising • Movies • Magazines

  6. Youth Culture • Leisure fun and fads • Dance marathons -- 3 weeks long in 1928 • Beauty contests • Miss America Pageant • Flagpole sitting

  7. Mass Entertainment • Paychecks • More free time • Radio • 1929 • 800 stations • Over 10 million homes • Broadcast • Church services • News • Music • Sporting events • Advertising

  8. Mass Entertainment • Movies • Silent films • Dramas • Westerns • Showed changes in morality and sexuality

  9. Mass Entertainment • Sports • Professional • Baseball • Tennis • Boxing • Greyhound Racing • Football • College level • Football • Recreation • Waterskiing invented Black Sox Scandal Jim Thorpe

  10. Mass Entertainment • Literature • Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes Zora Neale Thurston

  11. Celebrities and Heroes • Media Influence • Youth often copied behavior of their idols • Heroes • Babe Ruth • Charles Lindbergh • Amelia Earhart • First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

  12. Religion • Era of Revivalism • Declining moral standards • Elaborate church messages • Hollywood flare • Fundamentalism • Conservative • Christian doctrine • Accepted without question • Scopes Trial: challenged Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

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