1. Annual Salary: $39,000

2. Stock Market Prices Ford Motor Company – $8.82 per share
John Deere – $ per share
General Electric – $6.97 per share
Coca-Cola - $49.45 per share
ExxonMobil - $77.78 per share
Apple - $ per share
Disney – $ per share

3. 1927 “The Lexington” six- bedroom home: Velveeta cheese: $4.49/wk
Rent: $166.10/mo.
Buy: $57,958.42
Florence Home value: $24,172.90
Velveeta cheese: $4.49/wk
Rayart dress - $94.94
Striped brown trousers with Broadcloth dress shirt - $78.07
Boysenberry, Butterfinger, Reeses, and Milky Way invented in 1923

4. 1927 RCA Radiola - $6,890.37 Hoover Electric Vacuum - $542.18
Cathedral Style Radio value: $1,063.61
Hoover Electric Vacuum - $542.18
Air-Way Vacuum value: $349.90
Electric Washing Machine with Attached Dryer - $1,134.48
Crank-Style Washing Machine value: $985.05
Yankees win the World Series! Babe Ruth baseball card value: $13.81
1927

5. CONGRATULATIONS! Diapers - $5.61/wk Clothing: $25.86 Crib: $819.15
Teddy Bear: $13.41
Baby food: $1.29/wk

6. The New Morality
The struggle between tradition and modernity

7. The following information is presented for historical information only
The following information is presented for historical information only. In no way does it represent the ideas, values or beliefs of Mrs. Walker or Mr. Luke.

8. The Rise of Nativism

9. Emergency Quota Act (1921): Restricted immigrants to 3% of their nationality’s U.S. population in 1910
National Origins Act of 1924: Restricted to 2% of the population from 1890 (before many New Immigrants arrived)
Natives of the Western Hemisphere were excluded
Immigration Issues

10. 1924
1921

11. Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti accused of robbery and murder
Italian immigrants; militant anarchists
Found guilty and executed
Spurred violent demonstrations worldwide
Trials generally seen as unfair, targeting radical immigrants, and holding opinion over evidence at trial
April 15, 1920 two men shot and killed two employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Co. and robbed them of their $15,000 payroll.
The investigation centered on local Italian anarchists, Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
While neither Sacco nor Vanzetti had a criminal record, the authorities knew them as radical militants. Police speculated that the robbers were motivated by the need to finance more bombings.
After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.
Violent demonstrations swept through many cities the next day, including Geneva, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.
There is a highly politicized dispute over their guilt or innocence, as well as whether or not the trials were fair
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

12. The Birth of a Nation (1915) – A silent film by D. W
The Birth of a Nation (1915) – A silent film by D.W. Griffith that chronicled the “true story” of the American Civil War, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
The first movie blockbuster and was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House.
“Like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

13. “Keep America American”
Revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Caused by fears from WWI era
Targets: Catholics, Jews, pacifists, communists, socialists, anarchists, bootleggers, gamblers, birth control activists, African Americans.
Used the same methods of fear, intimidation, and lynching
Over 5 million members, including prominent members of local, state, and the national government
“Keep America American”

14. The “New Morality”
A shift in the beliefs of many Americans on morality, culture, and values.
Glorified youth and personal freedom and changed American society
Causes:
World War I
Increasing role of women in politics
Mass Media
"Old" Culture
"New" Culture
Emphasized Production
Emphasized Consumption
Character
Personality
Scarcity
Abundance
Religion
Science
Idealized the Past
Looked to the Future
Local Culture
Mass Culture
Substance
Image

15. Human Psychology Mental illness in America
Believed that mental illnesses were untreatable
Social stigma (eugenics)
Causes for changes in mental health
WWI vets suffering from “shell shock”
Social conflicts increased fear and paranoia
Sigmund Freud
Conscious and unconscious mind
Id, ego, superego
Life and death instincts
Defense mechanisms

16. The Fundamentalist Movement
Fundamentalism: Believes the Bible is literally true and without error
Rose out of fear that America was losing its traditional values
Rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution
Popularized by Billy Sunday

17. The Butler Act
“It shall be unlawful for any teacher…to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

18. The Scopes Trial
John Scopes (HS science teacher) arrested for violating the Butler Act
Organized by ACLU
Defense: Clarence Darrow; Prosecution: William Jennings Bryan
Media circus, drew international attention
Showed divide between tradition and modern; older and younger generations; Fundamentalists vs. Evolutionists
He volunteered to be the test case from an ad placed by the ACLU