Kris Howell
His 202 – 200
Essay 2
6-22-2014

In the mid nineteen twenty’s was another new era of American History where people started to live in urban areas(City’s) before that most had lived in rural areas (Country) this is because major changes were restructuring the world. There where assembly lines made popular by Henry Ford that produced a lot of new thing like electrical products, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and fan and razors. Tons of advertising fallowed shit cultivating mass demand for the products of mass consumption. As for the middle and upper class the automobile was redly available from (ford). There where mass circulation of magazines and Hollywood cinema was very popular because of the start of celebrity culture. The biggest thing was broadcast radio (NBC) and (CBS) where some of the first nation stations these are main source of entertainment in the roaring twenty’s. Fundamentalism played a big role in religion as they insisted on the Bible’s inerrancy and literal truths, including the genesis accounts of creation. They also targeted Darwin’s theory of evolution some states refused to teach it to the school children. Now the (ACLU) offered to defend any willing to challenge the law passed by Tennessee’s legislation and one man did named John Scopes he was arrested for teaching evolution to his class and his trial was known as the Scopes Trial it was broadcast on the radio. Other things taking place was probation where alcoholic beverage was outlawed but people still found ways to get what they wanted in speakeasy’s or private bars the still sold boozes ran by the mob or organized crime.

Blacks in the nineteen twenty’s started moving up north and out west to get jobs that where available because of world war one and began to expectance a new type of freedom that was sort lived this was not a easy transition as they were meet with some hardships from the KKK and other non-blacks as they still felt they only belonged in