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1920s a Return to Normalcy

1920s a Return to Normalcy. “the Business of America is Business!”. 1920’s The JAZZ AGE. The 18 th Amendment and passage of the Volstead Act The 19 th Amendment women’s suffrage . Silent MOVIES Talkies Big City vs Small Town The Model T.

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1920s a Return to Normalcy

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  1. 1920s a Return to Normalcy “the Business of America is Business!”

  2. 1920’s The JAZZ AGE • The 18th Amendment and passage of the Volstead Act • The 19th Amendment women’s suffrage . • Silent MOVIES Talkies • Big City vs Small Town • The Model T

  3. Prohibition The moral law that created irreverence • If you get rid of alcohol you get rid of poverty, homelessness and domestic violence. But you can’t stop S&D

  4. Demand for liquor creates Supply • Good quality alcohol shipped from Canada or Europe, or moonshine from the hills. The value was so great it needed tommy guns to protect it

  5. The City girl … flapper vs the country girl family values and modesty

  6. HERO’s moralist • Conservative Charles Lindbergh • Liberal Huey Long • The Rise of the KKK • Henry Ford & the Model T

  7. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST • Booker T. Washington’s Accommodationism W.E.B. Dubois Civil Activism • Marcus Garvey’s BACK TO AFRICA Movement

  8. Scopes Monkey Trial • ACLU employs Clarence Darrow to defend John Scopes. William Jennings Bryan helps Prosecution

  9. Election of 1928 • Hubert Hoover Popular millionaire philanthropist and secretary of commerce runs against AL Smith Cigar smoking Catholic antiprohibitionist

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