1. POP QUIZ! 1919 1.) Explain why prices of goods increased
following the war.
2.) Why were feelings of nativism on the
increasing in 1919?
3.) What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of?
4.) Why is A. Mitchell Palmer historically
significant?
5.) Briefly, why do Americans fear communism?

2. WARM-UP 1.) How do you think surviving a war would
effect the way you thought about things?

3. 1920s: CLASH IN VALUES 1.) Describe the clash in values in the 1920s
- There will people called the Fundamentalist and people called the New Morality. They had different beliefs and values.
2.) Provide 3 examples of the New Morality and the Fundamentalists clashing.

5. New Morality
All about living life and personal freedom.
Young, energetic, modern.
Worked and spent money on music, fashion, and other entertainment
Urban (cities is where the action is)

6. Fundamentalists
Did not like the New Morality: thought they were out of control and had no morals.
Very Religious: they believed that the Bible was 100% correct and that god created man.
Sometimes older generation
Lived in rural areas (farms/Midwest)

7. Alcohol is causing all the issues in society
Disagreement 1: How do we restore American values?
Yeah!
Alcohol is causing all the issues in society
Yeah!
Prohibition Jan. 16, 1920 = 18th Amendment
To enforce the 18th Amendment government passed the Volstead Act
-Police Powers = ability to take control of
people and property in the interest of public
safety.
- Secret bars = Speakeasies
- Increased crime Bootleggers & the Mob
(Al Capone)
By 1933 government passed the
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th Am. =
liquor was legal again

8. 1920s popular dance the Charleston
Disagreement 2: How should women behave?
New Morality
These new independent women are called flappers
Women should vote, work, dance, drink etc.
1920s popular dance
the Charleston
Fundamentalists
Saw these women as sinful, out of control.
Women’s place is in the home.

9. OR We should discuss all ideas! Disagreement 3: How was “man” created?
In 1925: Tennessee passed the Butler Act = outlawed teaching evolution or any ideas that were anti-”Bible” theories of how man was created (creationism)
John T. Scopes was hired to go into a TN school and teach evolution. Purpose = get arrested and get the story into the media.
Today = “separation of church and state”

10. POP QUIZ GRADE!
1.) Describe who the New Morality is and summarize their post-war beliefs.
2.) Same as question 1, but focus on the Fundamentalists.
3.) Explain the goals of Prohibition. Which group supported this belief and why?
4.) Explain the Scopes Trial. Which group would have supported Scopes and why?
5.) How did women’s roles change in the 1920s Why did this happen?

11. Icons for the New morality

12. Why would a female athlete
be a role model to young
women in the 1920s?
Suzanne Lenglen
Tennis player

13. Louise Brooks
movie star

14. For Men?
Oxford Bags
= men’s pants

16. NOW
THEN
THEN
NOW
NOW

17. The New Morality of the Fundamentalists
Who would listen to…
The New Morality of the Fundamentalists