1920s Clash of Values

-Wanted to preserve T____________________ values

-Feared ‘new morality’ was taking over and changing traditional ways of behavior

-New morality – glorified Y_______________ and P______________ F________________

Women’s Rights

-19th amendment = ______________________________________

-Women wanted to break free from traditional roles and behaviors

-A___________________________ allowed young women to go on dates outside of home

-Some women got j_______ to break away from parental authority and become financially independent

Women’s Fashion

-Fashion for women changed

-F________________________ – smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited alcohol, wore make-up, and

sleeveless dresses with short skirts

-Women began shortening hair and changing style to copy m__________ s_________ looks

Women As Professionals

-Women who attended c__________________ were encouraged to pursue careers and to challenge

traditional ideas about women’s roles in society

-Professional women made contributions in s_____________, medicine, l_________ and literature

-Margaret Sanger – believed families could improve standard of living by limiting how many c_______________ they had

– Founded Birth Control League to promote knowledge of birth control

– This became P________________ P_____________________ in the 1940s

Fundamentalism

-Fundamentalists believed that the B_________________ was literally true

-Rejected Darwin’s theory of E____________________ – belief that human beings developed from

lower forms of life

-Only believed in C____________________ – belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

Scopes Trial

-Tennessee outlawed any teaching other than C_____________________

-ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union advertised for a teacher willing to be arrested for teaching E____________ -John Scopes a biology teacher in Dayton, TN volunteered, taught E _______________, and was a_______________

-William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor who represented creationists

-Clarence D______________________ defended Scopes

-Scopes found ______________

-Trial broadcast over r_____________ and people heard tough cross examination by Darrow that hurt the Fundamentalist cause

Prohibition

-Support for Prohibition causes:

– Religious reasons

– Thought would reduce unemployment, domestic violence, and poverty

-__________________________________________ – banned alcohol

-V_____________ A________ – made the US Treasury responsible for enforcing Prohibition

Problems of Prohibition

-Americans blatantly ignore law

-S________________________ – secret bars where you could purchase alcohol

-B____________________________ – illegal distribution of liquor was common in rural areas

-Organized crime thrived on the illegal trade of alcohol

-Al Capone was most notorious g_________________________

– Had police, judges and other officials on payroll

– Eventually brought to justice by Eliot Ness and found guilty of t____ e_______________