Baltimore Polytechnic Institute March 17, 2015 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green

Students will be able to analyze to what extent technological innovations improved the lives of the American people.

Objectives: Students will: Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and normalcy following World War I. Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade. Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial. AP Focus Concerned about the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, the United States, Britain, and other nations send troops to participate in the Russian Civil War in the hope of toppling Lenin’s communist government. Domestically, a systematic effort to suppress Bolsheviks, or reds, is launched. A political cartoon in The American Pageant (13 th ed., p. 721/14 th ed., p. 771) makes it abundantly clear that leftists have no place in American life. Intolerance grows in the nation after World War I. A new and more virulent nativist strain emerges in the reborn Ku Klux Klan, which has expanded its influence across the nation. To shrink immigration from certain areas of the world, a quota system is put in place. That and the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduce eastern and southern European immigration.

CHAPTER THEMES A disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism, and the pleasures of prosperity. New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety, as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.

Test on March 31 and April 1over Unit 8 Regular 5QQ on Wednesday Decades Chart up to 1919 due today or tomorrow after school for the review

Identify the reasons the KKK expanded in membership during the 1920’s. Identify reasons for the Red Scare of Identify outcomes of increased immigration during the 1910s.

Increases in crime Speakeasies Organized crime Lindbergh baby

Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 John T. Scopes taught evolution, violating Tennessee state law Clarence Darrow-represented Scopes William Jennings Bryan-represented the Bible Challenged the literal interpretation of the Bible

Could American manufacturers find the mass markets for the goods they had developed? Advertising make Americans unhappy with their meager possessions. The Man Nobody Knows-Bruce Barton Sports Boxing Cars-Assembly line/Fordism/Scientific Management Buying on Credit vulnerable to disruptions of credit

Gasoline age Airplanes Radio Movies nickelodeons propaganda

1920-Most Americans living in urban areas Contraceptives Margaret Sanger Fundamentalists to the Modernists “Flappers” Dr. Sigmund Freud Marcus Garvey-UNIA Harlem Renaissance “New Negro”

Florida real estate 100’s of banks failed annually Buying on margin National debt increased Andrew Mellon rich invested in tax-exempt securities instead of factories lowered taxes-shift to middle-income groups decreased debt indirectly encourage bull market

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