1. Social and Cultural Tensions
Chapter 11 Section 3

2. Modernism
Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion
Traditionalists tended to embrace more traditional views of religion, science, and culture

3. Education
Rural and Urban Americans differed on their views of formal education
Rural America
Three R’s
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Focused on farm tasks

4. Education Urban America By 1930 Mental ability, not muscle Mastery of
Mathematics
Language
By 1930
More American teens graduated from high school
More Americans went to college

5. Religion Many Americans believed Christianity was under attack
Fundamentalism
Attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles
Answer to every important moral and scientific question was in the holy book

6. Evolution
Fundamentalism and Modernism clashed in the Scopes Trial of 1925
Issue of theory of evolution
Charles Darwin believed that human beings, had developed gradually from a simpler form of life
The theory clashed with the description of creation in the Bible

7. Evolution
1925, Tennessee passed a law making it illegal to teach Darwin’s theory in public school
John Scopes wanted to fight the law and taught evolution in his classroom in Dayton, Tennessee
The trial was called the “monkey trial”

8. Evolution Clarence Darrow, defense attorney, defended Scopes
Scopes was found guilty of breaking the law and was fined $100

9. Immigration Quota System
Limited number of immigrants could enter the US from certain countries

10. Ku Klux Klan
1915, on Stone Mountain in Georgia, a group of men revived the KKK
Promoted hatred for all kinds
Jews, Catholics, and immigrants

11. Prohibition Banning of alcohol use 18th Amendment Volstead Act
Forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in US
Volstead Act
Enforced the Amendment