Thursday, December 4, 2014
• Take your seat
• Take out your notebook
• Quietly answer you essential questions
Essential Questions:
EQ 1: How did domestic and foreign policy
change direction under Harding and Coolidge?
Ch. 7-2
EQ2: How did the booming economy of the
1920’s lead to changes in American life?
Must be 1 paragraph each. Include 2 specific
examples with explanation.
Ch. 7-1
Today Agenda
• Essential Questions
• FN: “Social and Cultural Tensions”
• Homework:
• Prepare for Vocab. Quiz
• Finish EQ
Fabulous Friday, December 5, 2014
• Take your seat
• Take out your notebook
• Quietly Review for your Vocab Quiz
Quiz on Ch. 7 Sec. 1 and 2
Please cross out Ch. 5 Sec. 3&4 and
replace it with Ch. 7 Sec. 1&2
Today Agenda
• Vocabulary Quiz
• FN Discussion: “Social and Cultural
Tensions”
• Homework:
• Read Mark and annotate Documents
• Work on any incomplete assignments in
your ntoebook
Social and Cultural Tensions
EQ: How did Americans differ on major social and
cultural issues?
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Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
• Modernism
• old North-South division of the nation was
replaced by a new urban-rural division
• new emphasis on science and non-religious
values
• Was strongest in cities
• Fundamentalism
• emphasized Protestant teachings especially
that the Bible is the literal word of God
• skeptical of the modernists faith in science
to solve society’s problems
• was strongest in rural areas
• Billy Sunday crusaded against alcohol, communism,
gambling, dancing, promiscuity
• he believed that Prohibition would end all sin
• Why was modernism stronger in the cities and
Fundamentalism stronger in rural areas?
• What issues will these opposing view pointes create? Why?
Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
• Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
• TN made it illegal to teach
evolution, which John Scopes
did
• the trial became a battle
between modernism and
fundamentalism
• Clarence Darrow of the ACLU defended
Scopes
• William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution
Why does this trial become the “show down”
between fundamentalists and modernism?
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Nativism – The “Red Scare”
• Palmer Raids, 1919-1920
• A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General)
created the FBI with J. Edgar Hoover to
search for Communists
• mail bombs exploded in 8 cities in the same hour, one
blew off the hands of a maid in Palmer’s home
• 4,000 - 10,000 were arrested, beaten or deported
• the government ignored the Bill of Rights in
favor of getting rid of the “Reds”
Why did communism scare the U.S. so much?
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Nativism & Immigration: The Quota System
• a set number of people that are
allowed to immigrate in one
year
• Italian immigration plummeted from
200,000 to 4,000 per year
• the Emergency Quota Act, 1921
-limited immigration to 3% of
the nationality in the US in 1910
• the National Origins Act, 1924 limited immigration to 2% of
the nationality in the US in 1890
• banned all Asian
immigrants but not Latin
Americans
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•
Why do you think there was such as serge of nativism in
the 1920’s?
Do we still see nativism in today’s society?
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Nativism & Racism
• Ku Klux Klan, 1915
• “defenders of
WASP values”
• blamed Jews,
blacks, Catholics,
immigrants for
everything
• had over 5
million members
before the group
collapsed in late
1920s
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Combating Nativism
• American Civil Liberties Union,
1920
• formed to protect the rights of
accused communists
• uses law suits and Congress to
protect people’s basic freedoms
• Anti-Defamation League, 1913
• formed to protect the rights of
Jewish People
• more broadly it fights against
bigotry and prejudice for all
people
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•
How effective do you think these type of organizations are in
helping minorities in the United States?
Do we still need organizations like this today? If so what issues do
you think they should focus on in order to improve American lives?
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Nativism (video)
• Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, Don’t
1921
Copy
• two Italians accused of
murder
• the evidence was thin but
they were anarchists and
had dodged the draft in
WWI
• judge declared their guilt
before the trial began
and they were
electrocuted in 1927
• anti-foreign sentiment made
their trial a farce
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Prohibition
• Eighteenth
Amendment, 1919
• changed alcohol laws
from state to federal
authority
• Volstead Act, 1919
• banned sale,
transportation, and
manufacture of alcohol
• allowed less than 3%
alcohol content and had
a religious exception
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Prohibition
Prohibition’s Legacy
• alcohol was smuggled into
the US from Canada and
Mexico
• organized crime grew in
wealth and power
• political officials and law
enforcement were bribed
 Attorney General sold liquor
licenses
 Harding drank at parties in
the White House
• more acceptable for women
to drink in public
• combination of speakeasies and
flapper culture
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Prohibition
• Al Capone
• most famous mafia leader based in
Chicago
• controlled bootlegging from Canada to
Florida
• over 10,000 Chicago speakeasies
• jailed in 1932 for tax evasion and was
put in Alcatraz
• died in 1950
• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1929
• public outrage led to more pressure on
organized crime
• Capone tried to wipe out his rival Bugsy Moran
• Murray the Hump, Jack “Machine Gun”
McGurn
• 7 men were shot to death in the middle of the day
by mafia dressed up like the police
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•
What were the arguments for and against
prohibition? Do they share any similarities? (229-230)
Why did prohibition lead to the development of so
much crime?
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