1 / 7

The Roaring Twenties!!

The Roaring Twenties!!. Roaring???. Historians refer to as the “Roaring 20s because there was a lot of change especially in how people behaved (socially). Prohibition.

nickolas-macris
Download Presentation

The Roaring Twenties!!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Roaring Twenties!!

  2. Roaring??? Historians refer to as the “Roaring 20s because there was a lot of change especially in how people behaved (socially).

  3. Prohibition In 1920, the 18th Amendment went into effect. The amendment basically outlawed the sale and consumption of any alcoholic drink. Many Temperance organizations had fought for years for prohibition believing it would solve many of the nation’s ills.

  4. Of course, Prohibition ended causing more problems. If you wanted a drink you just went to a speak easy (an unadvertised bar). Bootlegging of liquor and criminal gangs became a major problem. Bootlegging was big business and gangsters like Al Capone in Chicago would pay off elected officials and the police.

  5. The Red Scare With the communist takeover in Russia (now the USSR) many Americans became even more fearful of American supporters of communism. Supporters of communism became known as “reds”. In a famous courtroom case, defendants Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder even though evidence pointed to their innocence. More than likely the jury found them guilty do to their political leanings, both were proclaimed anarchists. The governor of Mass appointed a commission to truly see if they should receive clemency. In the end both were electrocuted to death.

  6. The Scopes (Monkey) Trial John Scopes was a biology teacher in Tennessee. He was charged with teaching evolution. The trial was really viewed as a trial between the new generation of the roaring twenties vs. the older more conservative generation. William Jennings Bryan (representing the county and Clarence Darrow (representing Scopes) dueled in the “Trial of the Century”. In the end, Darrow actually asked Bryan to go on the stand to defend his argument against evolution. While on the stand Darrow made Bryan look like a befuddled old man. In the end Darrow actually asked the jury to find his defendant guilty so that the case could be appealed. Scopes was found guilty & fined $100.00 .

  7. The Radio There was no TV back then, but the Scopes Trial

More Related