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Date Posted: 20:44:25 02/04/03 Tue
Author: Beth
Subject: ch 24 rest of section

Consumerism
A. Growing Mass Consumption
1. The U. S. was creation of a mass consumer culture
a. Many could afford more than they needed
i. Not just for need but pleasure
2. The middle class families could afford appliances
a. Like electric refrigerators, washing machines, electric irons and vacuum cleaners
b. This revolutionized housework and had a dramatic impact on the lives of women
3. Men and women wore wristwatches and smoked cigarettes
a. Cosmetics and fashions coming in
4. American had bought automobiles
a. 30 million
B. Social Impact of the Automobile
1. Easier way to stay in touch with friends and family
a. Drive quicker in to town
2. Cars + extra time + extra money = vacation
a. Weekend drive through the countryside became a must

Changing the Ideas of Motherhood
A. “Companionate Marriages”
1. Their roles as wives and companions
a. The middle class wife shared increasingly in her husband’s social life
b. More attention to cosmetics and clothing
2. Many women now saw sexual relationships with their husbands as pleasure than procreation
a. Culmination of romantic love
B. Birth Control
1. The pioneer of birth control was Margaret Sanger
a. Sanger began career promoting the diaphragm and other birth control devices
b. Believed the large family helped caused poverty and distress in poor communities
2. Birth control devices began to find a large marker among middle-class women

The Decline of the “Self-Made Man”
A. Importance of a education
1. Changes in American society: the gradual disappearance of the reality and to some degree even of the ideal, of the “self-made –man”
a. Thought it was a myth
b. They didn’t believe that success could not be achieved without education and training
2. Losing control caused a crisis of self-identification
a. Men robbed of their masculinity
B. Charles Lindbergh
1. “Doom of the Self-Made Man”
a. The identity of three men who became the most widely admired heroes of the New Era: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Charles Lindbergh
2. Lindbergh was the first aviator to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
a. Became a national hero which the American people have never seen before
3. The three men represented the triumphs of the modern technological and industrial society
a. However they did not have the benefit of formal education

Religious Fundamentalism
A. The Place of religion in contemporary society
1. American Protestantism
a. The modernists
i. Mostly urban, middle-class people, teaching of modern science, secular society
b. Defenders of traditional faith
i. Provincial, rural men and women, fighting to maintain the religion in American life, also known as the “Fundamentalists”
ii. The opposed the teaching of Charles Darwin, evolution
2. Tennessee law made it illegal to teach any story that denies that the creation of man in the bible
B. Scopes Monkey Trial
1. The Tennessee law attracted the American Civil Liberties Union
a. Founded by Jane Adams, Norma Thomas, Helen Keller
b. Defend the freedom of speech and belief
2. John T. Scopes a 24 yr. Old biology teacher argued the law
a. With Charles Darrow as his attorney
b. And William Jennings Bryan arguing against them
3. Caused a media frenzy
4. Scopes lost and was fined $100
a. Darrow had a major victory for the modernist
By calling Bryan himself to the sand to testify as “expert on the Bible”

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