APUSH
Mr. BOOTHBY
2/23/2017
The Learning Target
: American Life in the “Roaring 20s” II
Gangsters/ Al Capone/ Scopes Monkey Trial/ BUYING ON CREDIT???
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REACTION: On Prohibition & GANGS…
Does outlawing “stuff” like drugs make gangs more prevalent?
DISCUSSION ONLY…”IF”
On-Task and working with a partner!
*They started banning their records and they sold like CRAZY!
Ok, not exactly the 1920’s!
Silently Read Pages 736-740
1) What were “rival gangs” trying to control? What other “illicit” profitable
activities did gangs move into? What act made interstate kidnapping a deathpenalty offense?
2) Who was John Scopes and what was his “Monkey Trial” about? What theory
did scopes embrace (Hint: It concerns the Origin of the Human Species)? What
were the final results of the trial?
3) How did buying on credit lead to changes in the American way of life? How do
you think Americans purchased products prior to credit cards and loans? Which
do you feel is better and why???
4) Who was Henry Ford and what did he do? How did he get the idea to make an
automobile assembly line (Hint: Think “The Jungle”)?
Continue: PROHIBITION boom TO bust!
Tonight Read 740-752
TOMORROW FUN STUFF AND ENTERTAINMENT!!!
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1) What were “rival gangs” trying to control? What other “illicit”
profitable activities did gangs move into? What act made interstate
kidnapping a death-penalty offense?
Violent wars broke out in the big cities between rival gangs, who sought
control of the illegal booze market. In Chicago, "Scarface" Al Capone, a
murderous booze distributor, began 6 years of gang warfare that
generated millions of dollars. Capone was eventually tried and
convicted of income-tax evasion and sent to prison for 11 years.
Gangsters began to move into other profitable and illicit activities:
prostitution, gambling, narcotics, and kidnapping for ransom. After the
son of Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnapped for ransom and then
murdered, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law in 1932, making
interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense.
2) Who was John Scopes and what was his “Monkey Trial”
about? What theory did scopes embrace (Hint: It concerns the
Origin of the Human Species)? What were the final results of the
trial?
In the 1920s, states started to put a larger focus on education.
Professor John Dewey set forth the principles of "learning by doing"
that formed the foundation of so-called progressive education. He
taught the Darwinian theory that humans came from rocks over billions
of years without any divine intervention or forces…
Fundamentalists, old-time religionists, claimed that the teaching of
Darwinism evolution was destroying faith in God and the Bible, while
contributing to the moral breakdown of youth. In 1925, John T. Scopes
was indicted in Tennessee for teaching evolution. At the "Monkey
Trial," Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, while former
presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan prosecuted him. Scopes
was found guilty and fined $100.
3) How did buying on credit lead to changes in the American way
of life? How do you think American bought stuff before credit
cards and loans? Which do you feel is better and why???
Buying in credit was another new feature of the postwar economy.
Prosperity thus led to increased personal debt, and the economy
became increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure.
4) Who was Henry Ford and what did he do? How did he get the
idea to make an automobile assembly line (Hint: Think “The
Jungle”)?
The automobile industry started an industrial revolution in the 1920s. It
created a new industrial system based on assembly-line methods and
mass-production techniques. Detroit became the motorcar capital of
the world. Henry Ford, father of the moving assembly line (Fordism),
created the Model T. By 1930, more than 20 million Model Ts were
being driven in the country.