CHANGING SOCIETY

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CHANGING SOCIETY
in the 1920s
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Conflicting Ideas
A Clash of Thought and the Generations
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1. Unions and Strikes

• ? formed because of poor working conditions
• ? support immigrant workers fighting for rights
• opposition management and owners who
• blamed radicals

Steel Strike of 1919
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Political Cartoons in Response to Strikes of 1919
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2. The Red Scare
? fear of a Communist revolution in the U.S. ?
support A. Mitchell Palmer raided radicals ?
opposition ACLU felt it hurt civil liberties
IWW headquarters afrter raid
Pull them out and keep them out!
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As Gag-Rullers supporters Of Sedition
Laws would have it!
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Red Scare and Anti-Strike Ideas
Red communist
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3. Prohibition (1920-1933)

• ? banned alcohol under the 18th Amendment
• ? support Anti-Saloon League, rural areas
• opposition Urban areas, liquor lobby
• led to bootlegging, speakeasies, mafia
  violence

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Violence of Valentines Day Massacre
Chicago Speakeasies
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Minneapolis Speak Easy The 5-8 Club
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4. The Scopes Trial (1925)

• ? decided it was illegal to teach evolution
• support fundamentalists with a strict
• interpretation of the Bible
• ? opposition modernists ACLU

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Opposing Views on The Scopes Trial
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VOCABULARY REVIEW I

• WORDS
• UNIONS STRIKES
• RED SCARE
• PROHIIBITION
• BOOTLEGGERS
• SPEAKEASIES
• SCOPES TRIAL
• EVOLUTION
• FUNDAMENTALISTS

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Changing Life
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1. Consumerism and Advertising

• encouraged people
• buy products to
• improve their lives
• installment plans
• Buy now, pay later
• Impact more sales,
• more debt, easier life

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Ads Used Radio and Movies Too
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2. The Car Fords Assembly Line

• assembly line makes cars affordable for
• masses
• Impact less isolation, roads, suburbs,
• economic boom

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3. Harlem Renaissance Jazz

• African American achievement in literature,
  music,
• the arts
• jazz developed in South, spread across nation
• Impact A.A. literature, music, art recognized

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Harlem as the Night spot in the 1920s
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4. Leisure Time
? movies, radio, sports become popular ?
impact a popular culture is created
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VOCABULARY REVIEW II

• WORDS
• CONSUMERISM
• ADVERTSING
• INSTALLMENT PLANS
• ASSEMBLY LINE
• HARLEM RENAISSANCE
• JAZZ
• FLAPPERS
• TALKIES