Presentation that intends to introduce the topic to the students and promote the discussion around the main features of this amazing decade in the US

1. Prof. Ernesto Correa
Colegio Seminario

2. Why “Roaring Twenties”?

3. The 18th Amendment to the
Constitution banned the
manufacture and sale of
alcohol with more than
0,5%. This made liquor trade
illegal and controlled by
organized crimes figures
such as Al Capone.

4. The most familar symbol is probably the flapper, a young woman with
bobbed hair and short skirts who was expected to drink, smoke and speak in
a manner which was thought to be “unladylike”. In addition those women
were more sexually liberated than previous generations.

5.  Consumer goods such as clothes and home
appliances like electric refrigerators and
radios were seeked by many. The first
commercial radio came in 1920 and three
years later there were more than 500
stations. By 1929 more than 12 million homes
had a radio.
 Movies also became very popular and three
quarters of american population went to the
cinema every week.
 By 1929 four out of five families owned a car.

6. Evolutionist versus Creationists
Butler Act 1925 – “unlawful to teach
any theory that denies the Bible”
Theory of Evolution – Charles Darwin
John Scopes – American Civil
Liberties Union
 “ A Civic Biology”
 William Jennings Bryan

8. Sacco and Vanzetti will became
icons in the Red Scare
phenomenon that will be part of
the Roaring Twenties.
Immigration and xenophobia