The Roaring Twenties

  1. Material Culture
    1. Consumer Culture characterized the 1920s
      1. The impact of the automobile
    2. Forces which fueled consumerism
    3. Revolution in morals and manners & beliefs
      1. flapper
      2. Scopes Monkey Trial (1925: Dayton, TN)
        1. William Jennings Bryan (fundamentalist) vs.
        2. Clarence Darrow (agnostic)
    4. Prohibition
      1. Progressivism reached its zenith w/ prohibition crusade
      2. Mass Disobedience
        1. speakeasies/blind pigs
        2. introduction of organized crime
  2. Democracy
    1. Question of who is allowed to share in prosperity of society
    2. African-American & Urbanization
      1. Revival of Klan & spread into north
      2. Impact of shift from a southern rural society to a northern urban one
    3. Red Scare
      1. Wilson fought WWI for demo, but excluded many groups
        1. pacifists & conscientious objectors
        2. socialists & wobblies who opposed capitalist war
          1. Eugene Debs imprisons
          2. Emma Goldman & other immigrants exiled
        3. immigrants
        4. women don't have vote
        5. Native Americans aren't citizens
        6. growing racial tensions
      2. Palmer Raids
        1. January 1920: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
          1. J. Edgar Hoover
          2. violation of civil liberties & constitutional rights
      3. Sacco and Vanzetti