EOC Test Preparation: Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
Jan 02, 2016
New Scientific Ideas and Discoveries
• Charles Darwin: evolution– “higher criticism” stated
that the Bible should be studied as a piece of literature to decide its validity
• Issues arising between traditionalists/fundamentalists and these new ideals.
New Scientific Ideas and Discoveries
• The “Monkey Trial”– Scopes Trial• John Scopes, TN high school
teacher that taught evolution instead of creationism• William Jennings Bryan was
the prosecutor • Clarence Darrow
represented Scopes• Bryan admitted that he did
not interpret the Bible literally, yet Scopes still lost
New Scientific Ideas and Discoveries
• New Technology– Henry Ford• Model T car
and mass production
– Wright brothers• First airplane
flights
New Scientific Ideas and Discoveries
• New technology– Household appliances– Nightlife– Mass media• Radio • Movies
Consumerism
• Consumer society: not a want, but a need– Ppl measure their
social status by what they buy and own
• Installment plan– Buy now, pay later
Women
• More women entering workforce– Still not getting leadership roles– Single women wanted, not married women
• Dress and attitude changed– Flappers
Intellectual Responses
• The Lost Generation– Writers who disagreed with moral corruption and
greed• F. Scott Fitzgerald• Ernest Hemingway
Art in the 1920s• Jazz
– African American culture but reached a wide audience
– Louis Armstrong-trumpeter and singer
• Poetry and literature– Langston Hughes– Zora Neal Hurston
• Harlem Renaissance
Social Conflicts
• Red Scare– Communism
• Palmer Raids• Sacco and Vanzetti– Italian immigrants – Accused anarchists and
murderers– Little evidence, put to
death in 1927
Social Conflicts
• Immigration– Nativism– Quotas
• KKK– Attacked blacks, Jews, Catholics, immigrants
• Prohibition– 18th, 21st Amendments– Organized crime
The Great Depression
• Causes:– Speculation– Buying on margin/credit– Farmers• Overproduction• Dust Bowl
The Great Depression
• Black Tuesday– Oct. 29, 1929• Stock market crashed
• 25% unemployed• Hoovervilles– Homeless communities • Shantytowns