1920's (4)
Women
Scropes-Monkey trial
economic changes
social changes
Farming
Before ww1 middle class women
restricted lives
wear very restricted cloothes
behave polite
not to wear make up
relationships were strictly controlled
did not take part in sports
no smoking in public
most states could not vote
expected to be housewives
lower-paid jobs
cleaning
dress making
secretarial work
General change
1920s things changed
especially for urban women and middle-class women
USA entering the war
some women were taken into the war industries
experience of skilled factory work
1920 they got the vote in all states
liberating effects of the car
domestic work was easier, vacuum cleaners and washing machines
women wore more daring clothing
smoked in public
drank with men
kissed in public
in urban areas more women took jobs, particularly middle-class women
jobs created by new industry
10 million women in jobs in 1929
24% more than in 1920
limitations
paid less with the same job
cheaper employess
did not reach equality with me
did not give them access to political power
became the focus of ill-feeling between rural and urban USA
urban people
rural people
believed in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
over millions of years human beings evolved from ape-like ancestors
disagreed with the theory
religious ppl
mostly protestants
fundamentalists
believed in the bible
took Gods teachings literally
strong in the "Bible Belt" in Tennessee
in schools
children were taught evolution
fundamentalists felt that this was undermining their own religion
USA's abandoning traditional values in the headlong rush to modernise in the 1920a
in 6 states, the fundamentalists managed to pass a law banning the teaching of evolution
led by Willian Jennings Bryan
John Scopes (trial)
deliberately broke the law to be arrested and put his case against fundamentalism
the trial captured public immagination
Scopes was convicted of breaking the law
Americans Fundamentalism itself was on trial, and lost
anti-evolutionists were subjected to great mockery
after the trial, the anti-evolution lobby never recovered