Traditionalists v. Modernists Chapter 29 Traditionalists v. Modernists

Warm up What new ideas, inventions, trends, events and legislation developed in the 1920s? Watch slideshow.

Mass production and the birth of advertising

Mass production the production of a large amount of standardized products

Advertising Communication designed to persuade the consumer to buy a product

Lost Generation a group of young Americans – including E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson – who established themselves as prominent postwar writers during the 1920s

Essential Question How did social, economic, and religious tensions divide Americans in the Roaring Twenties?

Modernist a person who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends Drinking, gambling, and going on casual dates 19 million people moved from farms to cities

Traditionalist a person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values saw the Bible as fundamental valued agricultural production

Equal rights amendment A proposed but ungratified Constitutional amendment first introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul for the purpose of guaranteeing equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender

Equal rights amendment Traditionalist View Minimum wage Limited work hours Union protection Women belong in the home Modernist View Jury service Owning property Guardianship over children Women should have economic independence

Discussion Questions 1) Would you vote to pass the ERA? Identify 2 arguments to support claim Identify 1 counterargument to reject opposing side.

Procedures Choose 1 presenter “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

Historical Outcome Not passed Critics argued the ERA would eliminate state and local laws protecting women

Volstead Act a law passed by Congress in 1919 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

Prohibition Traditionalist View Alcohol caused crime, violence, breakup of families Would curb beer drinking with immigrants Spend less wages at saloons and more time benefiting families Modernist View Argued that drinking was not a sin Government would need 250,000 agents to make it work People started brewing “bathtub gin”

2. Discussion Question If you lived in the 1920s, would you pass the Volstead Act? Identify 2 arguments to support claim Identify 1 counterargument

Procedures Choose 1 presenter “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

Historical Outcome As lawlessness, violence and corruption increased, many Americans believed that prohibition would do more harm than good 21st Amendment repealed prohibition

Scopes trial A criminal trial that tested the constitutionality of a law banning the theory of evolution in 1925 Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in public schools John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in his science class.

Scopes trial Traditionalist “If evolution wins, Christianity goes.” “Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.” Modernist View ACLU represented Scopes “violation of my academic freedom” “To teach the truth as guaranteed in our Constitution.”

“What would the verdict be?”

3. Discussion Question Does John Scopes have the Constitutional right to teach evolution in his science class? Identify 2 arguments to support claim Identify 1 counterargument

Procedures Choose 1 presenter “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

Historical Outcome John Scopes was found guilty. Judge fined him $100. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision. The separation of church and state still subject to debate.

Essential Question How did social, economic, and religious tensions divide Americans in the Roaring Twenties?