Chapter Nine

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Chapter Nine

• More of the Twenties

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Growth of the Middle Class

• Better wages, less hours, more time for leisure
  activities and family.
• Raise in standards of living autos, debt,
  advertising, freedom, suburbs, and movies.
• Poverty for farmers, coal workers, and cotton
  workers.
• Fashion for young people Flappers!

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Idols and Heroes

• Sports Babe Ruth, Oscar Charleston, Jack
  Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle.
• Charles Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis
• Literature Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
  Faulkner.
• Harlem Renaissance African-Americans express
  identity, anger, and find a voice.
• Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, and Claude McCay.

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Cultural Conflicts

• The Scopes Trail directly testing the Butler
  Act.
• Immigration Act of 1921 (3 of 1910) and the
  National Origins Act of 1924 (2 of 1890).
• Fundamentalism Literal meaning of the bible. A
  rural religious movement. Non-protestants are
  heathens. An eye for an eye.
• Ku Klux Klan revival small towns,
  fundamentalists movement.
• Nationalism, racial purity, white supremacy
• David Stephenson Indiana KKK leader I am the
  law in Indiana