1 / 9

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.

shelly
Download Presentation

1920s a Return to Normalcy

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  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

More Related