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Social and Cultural Tensions
Chapter 11 Section 3
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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
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Education Rural and Urban Americans differed on their views of formal education Rural America Three R’s Reading Writing Arithmetic Focused on farm tasks
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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Evolution Clarence Darrow, defense attorney, defended Scopes
Scopes was found guilty of breaking the law and was fined $100
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Immigration Quota System
Limited number of immigrants could enter the US from certain countries
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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
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Prohibition Banning of alcohol use 18th Amendment Volstead Act
Forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in US Volstead Act Enforced the Amendment
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