• Cities became “places to be, not to get away from.”– Urban Behaviors- drinking, gambling, casual dating.– Urban Relationships- Impersonal, No one set of rules.

• Prohibition- 18th Amendment– Ex. Of old values vs. new.

Charles Lindbergh

George Gershwin

Ernest Hemingway

The Middle Class materialismand discontent with the “American Dream”

The Twenties Woman• Rejected the values of the 19th Century.

• The Flapper• Drinking, Smoking, overt sexuality.• Not a reality for most women.

• Changing views of marriage• Partners- Equality

• The Double Standard – Casual dating increases but…

• Women are held to a higher standard of behavior than men.

• Men wanted to have casual relationships with women, but didn’t want to marry those girls.

What’s with those pants?...“pull your pants up?” sound familiar

• FUNDAMENTALISM- (protestant)– The belief in a literal, non symbolic interpretation of the

Bible.

– Mainly focused on fighting

– Scopes Monkey Trial • (The story).• Darrow and Bryan• The Length of a Day

– Still today…• George Bush’s main supporters were Fundamentalist Christians

in the South.

The Politics of the 1920’s

• President

_____________

experienced problems when members of his cabinet were implicated in the

________________ scandal.

Summarize what this scandal was:

Calvin Coolidge• “Cool Cal”

• Advocated the “Status Quo

• Conservative, Quiet, Contemplative, & Casual – not flashy like Harding

• Refused to allow the Federal Gov’t to get involved in the Economy, An Isolationist, Advocated Tax Cuts,

• < “Silent Cal”

Three trends that were the result of our desire to “return

to normalcy.”• 1.

• 2.

• 3.

 Palmer RaidsThese raids hunted down:

 – ___________________

– ___________________

 – ___________________ define this term:

 

The end result of these raids:NOTHING, but he became the Attorney General!!!

Nativists wanted to: