1. Rural & Urban Life
1922-1930—Two million people moved to the cities.
Once isolated rural communities reached by
automobiles.
Migration of more people to urban areas.
Changed of Moral Values:
1. Scientific values
2. Social Values (drinking, gambling, etc,)
Fast past city life often intimidated or changed
people.

2. Standard of Living
“Business of America is Business” Slogan by Calvin
Coolidge?
People were making money, enjoying a descent living.
Effects of the Automobile.
Henry Ford develops the Model T.
1. Paid workers $5.00 per hour.
2. Assembly lines grew.
Freedom to travel.
Cars started urban sprawl. (cities grew)
Airlines developed.
Electricity lights the whole nation.
Alternating Current (Batteries)

3. Standard of Living
-”business of America is business”
-effects of the automobile
freedom to travel
urban sprawl
-airlines develop
-electricity lights the whole nation
alternating current (Tesla)
-growth of the radio industry

4. Prosperity
Growth of advertising industries in Magazines &
Newspapers.
Productivity Increases because of the Assembly
Lines.
Buying on the Installment Plan increases
consumption.

5. New Role of Women
Victorian Age of Women became outdated.
Flappers—young women of modern times. They wore
dresses just below their knees. They encouraged
the Bob Haircut.
Behavior Attitude: dancing, smoking & drinking.
Double Standard of Behavior:
1. Tradition values v. New Standard of Living.
Sexual Freedom for men & women. Clashed of
Conservative Values.
Women worked as nurses, teachers, secretaries,
etc.
Family Life Changed.
Margaret Sanger opened the 1st
Birth Control Clinic
in 1916. (Jailed for opening clinic).
Comstock Law—illegal to pass out any information
pertaining to birth control Last until the 1960s.

6. New Role of Women
-Victorian Age view of women
-flapper was a young women of modern times
hair styles, dress, attitudes, behavior
-double standard of behavior
-clash of conservative values

7. New Role of Women
-Opportunities increase
-families change
Margaret Sanger and birth control

8. Prohibition
18th
Amendment bans alcohol.
Many people resented the new law that regulated
behavior.
Government never tried to really enforce the law.
Speakeasies—hidden saloons, drinking clubs.
Bootleggers—carrying liquor in the legs of boots.
Growth of organized crimes began.
Al Capone—leader of criminal empire in Chicago.
Capone ran a network of 10,000 speakeasies mainly
from Chicago through New York City.

9. Prohibition
-banned alcohol
-many people resented the new law that regulated
behavior
-gov’t never tried to really enforce the law
-speakeasies
drinking clubs
-bootleggers
-growth of organized crime
Al Capone

10. Science and Religion
Fundamentalism is a religious movement focusing on
the truth in the Bible.
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: man evolved from a
lower being.
Scopes Trial—John Scopes arrested for teaching
evolution in a high school
Clarence Darrow was the atheist lawyer to defend
Scopes.
William Jennings Bryan was the Fundamentalist
lawyer for the government.
Case was thrown out on a technicality.
New Social Changes: prohibition, evolution and urban
scene.

11. Science and Religion
-Fundamentalism
religious movement focusing on the truth of the
Bible
-Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
-Scopes Trial
John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution
Clarence Darrow
William J. Bryan

12. Science and Religion
-Fundamentalism
religious movement focusing on the truth of the
Bible
-Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
-Scopes Trial
John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution
Clarence Darrow
William J. Bryan