Chapter+14-2

Chapter 14-2: Life in the Twenties

Key Terms/People
 * Volstead Act: to enforce amendment
 * Al Capone: ruled Chicago's under world with his small army of mobsters
 * Eliot Ness: special agent hired to organize a squad of men to go after gangsters
 * Untouchables: what Ness and his group were called
 * Flappers: young women who adapted to the new style
 * Cecil B. DeMille: movie director, introduced a new style of film making marked by epic plots and complex characters
 * Jim Thorpe: first competitor to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon
 * Charles Lindbergh: biggest celebrity of the 1920s
 * Amelia Earhart: became first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
 * Aimee Semple McPherson: one of the most popular revivalists
 * Fundamentalism: a protestant movement
 * Clarence Darrow: famous criminal Lawyer from chicago
 * Scopes Trial: exposed a deep division in American society between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of thought

Key Events: Prohibition Youth Culture Mass Entertainment Religion in the 1920s
 * most disruptive issue was the prohibition of sale and distribution
 * some regions alcohol consumption was declined
 * in large cities criminal gangs controlled liquor sales
 * A special group was formed to go after gangste's
 * new style formed in dress and behavior
 * the "new" women was adventurous, independent, and often career-minded
 * Americans formal education didn't pass high school however between 1900 and 1930 college enrollment tripled
 * most Americans had bigger paychecks as a reaction to the economic boom
 * Commercial radios came about in the early 1920s
 * in 1920s America turned to movies for entertainment
 * in 1920s, Americans turned to sports for entertainment also
 * Aimee Semple McPherson: one of the most popular revivalists
 * Fundamentalism: a protestant movement
 * Clarence Darrow: famous criminal Lawyer from Chicago