Chapter 12 Review A Prospering Society. The Automobile More than any other consumer item, the car defined the American of the 1920s.

Chapter 12 Review

A Prospering Society

The Automobile

• More than any other consumer item, the car defined the American of the 1920s

Advertising

• The idea of creating consumer demand

Advertising

Advertising

Flappers

The Jazz Age• Sports Heroes

Jazz Age• Charles Lindbergh – Solo flight across the

Atlantic

Jazz Age

• Louis Armstrong

The Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem, New York City– African American literary and artistic

movement• Writers, poets, artists

– “No longer accept second-class citizenship”

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural Conflicts• Power of Religion

– Fundamentalism = literal truth of the Bible– Migrant farmers to cities

Scopes Trial

• Religion vs. Science– Evolution in Schools

Failure of Prohibition

• Refusal of the middle-class

Failure of Prohibition

• Bootleggers

Failure of Prohibition

• Gangs – bought breweries and transported illegal alcohol

Ku Klux Klan

• Favored Prohibition

• Hatred for African Americans

Ku Klux Klan

• New enemies = Mexican Americans, Japanese and European immigrants, Jews, Catholics, French Canadiens

KKK & European Movements

• Stressed:– Nationalism– Racial Purity

• Attacked alien minority groups

• Disapproved of the urban culture

• Called for return to the past

The Challenge of Change

• Those in power– White, Protestant, and Male

• Still promoted small-town virtues, but the U.S. was rapidly changing into a modern, urban society