1. Traditionalists v. Modernists
Chapter 29
Traditionalists v. Modernists

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

3. Mass production and the birth of advertising

4. Mass production
the production of a large amount of standardized products

5. Advertising
Communication designed to persuade the consumer to buy a product

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

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

17. 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”

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

19. 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

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21st Amendment repealed prohibition

21. 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.

22. 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.”

23. “What would the verdict be?”

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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.

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