Annual Salary: $39,000

Stock Market Prices Ford Motor Company – $8.82 per share John Deere – $145.77 per share General Electric – $6.97 per share Coca-Cola - $49.45 per share ExxonMobil - $77.78 per share Apple - $164.96 per share Disney – $111.99 per share

1927 “The Lexington” six- bedroom home: Velveeta cheese: $4.49/wk Rent: $166.10/mo. Buy: $57,958.42 Florence Home value: $24,172.90 Velveeta cheese: $4.49/wk Rayart dress - $94.94 Striped brown trousers with Broadcloth dress shirt - $78.07 Boysenberry, Butterfinger, Reeses, and Milky Way invented in 1923

1927 RCA Radiola - $6,890.37 Hoover Electric Vacuum - $542.18 Cathedral Style Radio value: $1,063.61 Hoover Electric Vacuum - $542.18 Air-Way Vacuum value: $349.90 Electric Washing Machine with Attached Dryer - $1,134.48 Crank-Style Washing Machine value: $985.05 Yankees win the World Series! Babe Ruth baseball card value: $13.81 1927

CONGRATULATIONS! Diapers - $5.61/wk Clothing: $25.86 Crib: $819.15 Teddy Bear: $13.41 Baby food: $1.29/wk

The New Morality The struggle between tradition and modernity

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The Rise of Nativism

Emergency Quota Act (1921): Restricted immigrants to 3% of their nationality’s U.S. population in 1910 National Origins Act of 1924: Restricted to 2% of the population from 1890 (before many New Immigrants arrived) Natives of the Western Hemisphere were excluded Immigration Issues

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Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti accused of robbery and murder Italian immigrants; militant anarchists Found guilty and executed Spurred violent demonstrations worldwide Trials generally seen as unfair, targeting radical immigrants, and holding opinion over evidence at trial April 15, 1920 two men shot and killed two employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Co. and robbed them of their $15,000 payroll. The investigation centered on local Italian anarchists, Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. While neither Sacco nor Vanzetti had a criminal record, the authorities knew them as radical militants. Police speculated that the robbers were motivated by the need to finance more bombings. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927. Violent demonstrations swept through many cities the next day, including Geneva, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. There is a highly politicized dispute over their guilt or innocence, as well as whether or not the trials were fair Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

The Birth of a Nation (1915) – A silent film by D. W The Birth of a Nation (1915) – A silent film by D.W. Griffith that chronicled the “true story” of the American Civil War, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. The first movie blockbuster and was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. “Like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

“Keep America American” Revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Caused by fears from WWI era Targets: Catholics, Jews, pacifists, communists, socialists, anarchists, bootleggers, gamblers, birth control activists, African Americans. Used the same methods of fear, intimidation, and lynching Over 5 million members, including prominent members of local, state, and the national government “Keep America American”

The “New Morality” A shift in the beliefs of many Americans on morality, culture, and values. Glorified youth and personal freedom and changed American society Causes: World War I Increasing role of women in politics Mass Media "Old" Culture "New" Culture Emphasized Production Emphasized Consumption Character Personality Scarcity Abundance Religion Science Idealized the Past Looked to the Future Local Culture Mass Culture Substance Image

Human Psychology Mental illness in America Believed that mental illnesses were untreatable Social stigma (eugenics) Causes for changes in mental health WWI vets suffering from “shell shock” Social conflicts increased fear and paranoia Sigmund Freud Conscious and unconscious mind Id, ego, superego Life and death instincts Defense mechanisms

The Fundamentalist Movement Fundamentalism: Believes the Bible is literally true and without error Rose out of fear that America was losing its traditional values Rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution Popularized by Billy Sunday

The Butler Act “It shall be unlawful for any teacher…to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

The Scopes Trial John Scopes (HS science teacher) arrested for violating the Butler Act Organized by ACLU Defense: Clarence Darrow; Prosecution: William Jennings Bryan Media circus, drew international attention Showed divide between tradition and modern; older and younger generations; Fundamentalists vs. Evolutionists He volunteered to be the test case from an ad placed by the ACLU