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Section 2
Youth in the 1920s -Many started rebelling -Wanted “fun and freedom” -New fashions, attitudes -More went to college
Women -Some women saw the 1920s as a time of change -Clothing -Shorter skirts, panty hose -“Flappers” -Short dresses, wore makeup -Drove, played sports, smoked -Work -More started working outside the home -Miss America Contest -Margaret Sangeràmother of birth control -More went to college -19th Amendment -1924à2 women elected governors
Prohibition -Conservative values and the “good old days” disappearing -Many people still clung to religion, family, neighbors -Cheek to cheek dancing was immoral -Prohibition -Reformers wanted prohibition (alcohol was evil) -During WWI, reformers told people that breweries were owned by Germans -January 1919àmaking, selling, transporting alcohol illegal -October 1919àVolstead Act -Law that allowed gov’t to enforce prohibition -Enforcement was sporadic -Some saw prohibition as a nuisance, not a law -BootleggingàAl Caponeàgangs -Seakeasiesàillegal bar -Alcoholism did decline
Changes for African Americans -During the 1920s, 800K moved North -About 2.5m living in the North (doubled in 20 years) -Detroit, Chicago, NYC, St. Louis -Racial tensions broke out -Chicago (1919) -White man threw rocks at an Afr. Am. boy who was swimmingàboy drowned -Riots for a week -38 dead, 500+ wounded -NAACP mounted campaign for equal rights -Black Nationalism-Marcus GarveyàFounder of Universal Negro Improvement Assoc. -African Americans could never achieve equality in the United Statesàneed nation of their own -Establish black-owned businesses -Create homeland in Africa -Never worked out
A Divided Society -Fundamentalism-Every word in the Bible is true and should be taken literally -Did not like theory of evolution -Scopes Monkey Trial (TN) (1925) -Can you teach evolution in school? -TN passed law outlawing evolution in school -John Scopes (Bio. Teacher) went to trial -Jury found Scopes guilty -KKK-Distrust by native-born Protestant Americans -Restarted at Stone Mountain, GA -KKK not limited to the Southàall over country -Not just blacks -Radicals, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, divorcees -Up to 5m. members but declined to about 9K in 1930
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