Rural and Urban Differences The New Urban Scene • 1920 census: 51.2% of Americans in communities of 2,500 or more • 1922–1929, nearly 2 million people leave farms, towns each year • Largest cities are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia - 65 other cities with 100,000 people or more • In 1920s, people caught between rural, urban cultures - close ties, hard work, strict morals of small towns - anonymous crowds, moneymaking, pleasure seeking of cities Changing Ways of Life 1 SECTION Ch. 21
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Rural and Urban Differences The New Urban Scene 1920 census: 51.2% of Americans in communities of 2,500 or more 1922–1929, nearly 2 million people leave.
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Rural and Urban Differences
The New Urban Scene• 1920 census: 51.2% of Americans in communities
of 2,500 or more• 1922–1929, nearly 2 million people leave farms,
towns each year• Largest cities are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
- 65 other cities with 100,000 people or more• In 1920s, people caught between rural, urban
cultures- close ties, hard work, strict morals of small towns- anonymous crowds, moneymaking, pleasure seeking of cities
Changing Ways of Life1SECTION
Ch. 21
Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice
Two “soft” drinks as rivals, but Devil = “hard” liquor
By the numbers: Soda’s rank among all beverages consumed in
U.S. = 1 Soda’s percentage by volume of all beverages
consumed in U.S. = 26% Ounces of soda consumed per person annually in
U.S. = 6,080 Part of a larger debate about “junk food”
taxes” and “fat taxes”, as well as other “sin taxes”
A tax of a penny per ounce would raise $15 billion in one year
CEO of Coca-Cola: “outrageous idea … it never works where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink”