Sit with a partner Please answer the following questions in your notes: What is fundamentalism? What is bootlegging? 1

Social Effects of the Roaring 20s… 2

The Roaring 20s (aka The Jazz Age) Day 2 Chapter 10 ss 3&4 Guiding Question: What factors spur economic and cultural growth in a society? 3

Standards USH.4.1 Understand the significance of the pro-business policies of President’s Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and the effect these policies had on the economy of the 1920s. USH.4.2 Identify new cultural movements of the 1920s and analyze how these movements reflected and changed American society. USH.4.4 Describe technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban America. 4

Clashing Values Learning Target: I can describe how increasing nativism and racism in the 1920s led to changes in immigration laws. 5

Vocabulary Please be able to explain the “who, what, when, where, why, and how is this relevant” of the following: Nativism Emergency Quota Act National Origins Act KKK Anarchist Sacco-Vanzetti Case Fundamentalism Evolution Creationism Speakeasy Prohibition 6

Nativism - The belief that one’s native land needs to be protected from immigrants. Cause Many blamed the social unrest after WWI on immigrants  Strikes, bombings, recession, unemployment, mob violence Fear of anarchists  The KKK rises again  Effect Emergency Quota Act (1921) - 3% limit National Origins Act (1924) – 2% limit (based on 1890 – 30 yr. gap; exempts Mexicans) Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1921) –Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of murder and executed on shaky evidence. William J. Simmons founds new KKK in Ga. (1915) (1920) Simmons uses advertising (1924) 4M members all over US 7

Flapper Style No Corsets Bobbed hair styles Short Skirts High Heals Rounded hats with almost no brim FREEDOM! 8

Women Changing roles New freedoms (19 th amendment in 1920) Changing views of marriage (romance/pleasure/friendship) Automobile (escape) Working (financial freedom) Fashion (changes in styles) hair/dress/Flappers Birth Control (1921) (breaking ties to home/family) 9

Fundamentalism – rejection of “new morality” Fundamental tenants of Fundamentalism: Christian belief system All morality derived from God (not society/nature) Bible literally true Creationism not evolution Revivals/Billy Sunday/highly emotional sermons Creationism v. Evolution (1925) TN outlaws teaching of Evolution ACLU advertises for teacher to be arrested for teaching evolution John T. Scopes volunteers Arrested & tried (William Jennings Bryan Prosecutes) Clarence Darrow Defends Convicted $100 fine Broadcast by radio (Darrow’s work hurts fundamentalist movement) 10

Prohibition – all social ills blamed on alcohol use (22:49) How did most Americans react to prohibition? WHY? (1920) 18 th Amendment outlaws Use and sale of Alcohol  socially motivated speakeasies 18 th Amendment gave Feds and States power to enforce = expansion of police powers Volstead Act makes U.S. Treasury responsible for enforcing 18 th Amendment Elliott Ness & Al Capone 450,000 arrests Organized crime – smuggling Bootlegging 11

Cultural Innovations Learning Target: I can describe how the arts and sports of the 1920s helped Americans embrace new ways of thinking. 12

Vocabulary Please be able to explain the “who, what, when, where, why, and how is this relevant” of the following: Bohemian Mass Media Modern American Art Ashcan Realists The Lost Generation Willa Cather Carl Sandburg Ernest Hemmingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Edith Wharton 13

Sports & the Media – the media makes sports superstars Mass Media Movies, Radio, Magazines, News Papers Professional Sports Baseball (Babe Ruth – 1 st mega star) Boxing (Jack Dempsey – Heavy Weight Champion) College Football (Red Grange Univ. of Illinois – “Galloping Ghost”) Golf (Bobby Jones – wins US and Brit open in same year) Tennis (Bill Tilden/Helen Willis – dominate world of tennis) Swimmer (Gertrude Ederle – swims English Channel) 14

Art & Literature – rooted in disillusionment Bohemian Lifestyles Unconventional, artistic, free-spirited Mass Media Movies, Radio, Magazines, News Papers Professional Sports Baseball (Babe Ruth – 1 st mega star) Boxing (Jack Dempsey – Heavy Weight Champion) College Football (Red Grange Univ. of Illinois – “Galloping Ghost”) Golf (Bobby Jones – wins US and Brit open in same year) Tennis (Bill Tilden/Helen Willis – dominate world of tennis) Swimmer (Gertrude Ederle – swims English Channel) Poets and Writers Carl Sandburg - glorified Midwest Willa Cather – life on the great plains F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby  the superficiality of modern society Ernst Hemmingway – heroic antiheros (flawed) Edith Wharton – humorous look at upper class pretentions and ignorance 15

Check Your Understanding What factors spur economic and cultural growth in a society? Describe how the arts and sports of the 1920s helped Americans embrace new ways of thinking. Describe how increasing nativism and racism in the 1920s led to changes in immigration laws. Identify the new cultural movements and economic ideas of the 1920s and analyze how these movements and ideas reflected and changed American society. Describe technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban America. 16

Day 2 Please sit at the desk with your Test on it. Finish working on the Primary Source Analysis project. You should be working with a partner (the person sitting next to you. (Yes…I know it may not be the same person you worked with last time.) 17

Primary Source Analysis – The Art 7 Literature of the Post WWI Era In groups of 2 (or 3) please read and analyze the information presented on the Art & Literature of the post WWI era. Complete the questions on the graphic organizer Be prepared to discuss your “findings”. 18