Rural vs. Urban

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Rural vs. Urban

• Rural conservative moral values slow-paced
  anti-change traditional roles views
• Urban modern views and roles lust for change
  new fast-paced
• FYI New York 5.6 mil Chicago
  3 mil
• Philadelphia 2 mil

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Trends on the Rise

• Isolationism pull away from world affairs
• Former foreign policy prior to WWI
• Nativism prejudice towards immigrants (again)
• KKK on rise again
• Limit immigration Emergency Quota Act of 1921
• ? fear paranoia of radicals diff. political
  groups urban ideas (change)

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Defining Events

• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• Sacco-Vanzetti
• The Scopes Trial
• Prohibition

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Prohibition 18th Amendment (1919)

• Cant mfg., sale, transport or consume alcohol
• Liquor MORAL corruption crime
• A progressive movement law
• Volstead Act (1919) enforce Prohibition
• Understaffed no epic fail

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Illegal Liquor, a.k.a. hooch

• Peeps tired of sacrifices from WWI lust for
  enjoyment of life
• Speakeasies secret bars/nightclubs that sold
  illegal liquor password protected
• Bootleggers smugglers of liquor from other
  countries (Can. Mex. huge suppliers)
• Make your own bathtub gin

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Organized Crime (The Mob)

• Political Machine evolved
• Used bribes violence to control 1920s major
  cities
• Al Capone Crime Boss
• Bootlegging criminal empire in Chicago
• Chicago notorious org. crime city in 20s
• Illegal corrupt

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Fads Trends

• Competitions
• Miss America Pageant
• Dancing (Fox Trot, Charleston, Tango)
• Obsessed w/Heroes
• NY Yankee Babe Ruth
  homerun hitter (60 in 1927)
• Charles Lindbergh - 1st solo
  non-stop
  flight across the
  Atlantic (1927)

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Entertainment

• Games/Sports crossword puzzles, mahjong,
  boxing, tennis, baseball
• Radio news, shows ads
• New medium added to shared culture
• Dramas The Shadow
• Comedies Amos Andy

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cont.

• Movies
• The Jazz Singer (1927) 1st movie w/sound
• Steamboat Willie (1928) 1st animated film
• Literature
• F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby negative
  side of 1920s
• Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises A
  Farewell to Arms criticized war

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Groucho Marx
Greta Garbo
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Rodolfo Valentino 1920s sex symbol
Mary Pickford - Americas Sweetheart
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Clara Bowa - Ultimate New Woman
Bella Lugosi
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Summarize

• Recap what you have learned about the changes
  conflicts occurring during the 1920s from the
  prev. slides.