Cultural Changes in America—Unit 8: Prosperity and Depression—Chp. 9-12

•  New Roles for Women

1.  New Opportunities

a. 

b. 

c. 

d. 

e. 

2.  New Family Roles

a. 

b. 

c. 

•  The Flapper

1.  One popular image that reflects changes for women in the Roaring Twenties was

2.  Flappers

a. 

b. 

c. 

d. 

3.  Other Women

a. 

b. 

c. 

4.  The flapper craze took hold mainly in

•  Conflicts over Values

1.  Americans lived in larger communities, which

2.  In the 1920s, many people

a.  Rural America represented

b.  Cities represented changes

3.  The Ku Klux Klan grew dramatically

a.  Members of the Klan continued

b.  In the 1920s, the Klan

c.  The Klan’s membership was

d.  The Klan’s peak membership

e.  Membership declined in the late 1920s

•  The Rise of Fundamentalism

  1. Billy Sunday

a.  Changing times caused

b.  One key religious figure

c.  Sunday condemned radicals

d.  Preached a simple message

e.  Sunday’s Christian beliefs were

  1. Aimee Semple McPherson

a.  Another fundamentalist

b.  Seemed to embrace the

c.  Her religion, however, was

d.  She was especially well known for

e.  Controversial figure—

  1. Scopes Trial

a.  Focused attention on

b.  Led to efforts to limit

·  Prohibition

1.  Groups like the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

2.  World War I helped the cause when

3.  Protestant religious groups and

4.  By 1917 more than half

c.  Prohibition in Practice

1.  Enforcing the new Prohibition law proved

2.  Prohibition gave rise to huge

3.  Federal officials estimated that

4.  Many people also made their own

5.  The illegal liquor business was

6.  Only 3,000 Prohibition agents

7.  Millions of Americans violated

•  Harlem Performers and Musicians

  1. The Harlem Renaissance helped create
  2. Performers
  3. Writers
  4. Musicians
•  Radio Drives Popular Culture
  1. During the 1920s, the radio
  2. Rise of the Radio
  3. Radio Station Boom
•  Movies
1.  Movies exploded in popularity
2.  New Film Techniques
a. 
b. 
c. 
d. 
3.  Talkies and Cartoons
a. 
b. 
c. 
4.  By the 1930s, Americans bought
5.  1920s Film Star Heroes
  1. The great popularity of movies in the 1920s gave rise to
  2. One of the brightest stars of the 1920s was
  3. Rudolph Valentino, a dashing leading man
  4. Clara Bow was
  5. Mary Pickford was

6.  1930s Hollywood Heroes

a.  Gary Cooper—

b.  Jimmy Stewart—

c.  Bette Davis—

d.  James Cagney—

e.  The Marx Brothers—

f.  Henry Fonda—

g.  John Ford—

h.  John Wayne—

i.  Gene Autry—

j.  Jack Benny—

k.  Frank Capra—

l.  George Burns & Gracie Allen—

•  Pilot Heroes of the Twenties

1.  Charles Lindbergh

a. 

b. 

c. 

d. 

2.  Amelia Earhart

a. 

b. 

c. 

•  Sports Heroes

  1. Radio helped inflame the public passion for sports, and
  2. Boxing—a means for the poor to get
  3. Jack Dempsey—
  4. James J. Braddock—
  5. Joe Louis—
  6. Football—growing fan base after 1900 as more
  7. Red Grange—
  8. Knute Rockne and Notre Dame—
  9. Jim Thorpe—
  10. Baseball—gained prominence in spite of
  1. Babe Ruth—
  2. Lou Gehrig—
  3. Walter Johnson—
  4. Rogers Hornsby & Dizzie Dean—
  5. New York became the center of
  6. Negro Leagues—

·  The Voice of the People

1.  Will Rogers

2.  Jimmie Rodgers
3.  Woody Guthrie