1. Thursday, December 4, 2014 Take your seat Take out your notebook
Quietly answer you essential questions
Essential Questions:
EQ 1: How did domestic and foreign policy change direction under Harding and Coolidge? Ch. 7-2
EQ2: How did the booming economy of the 1920’s lead to changes in American life? Ch. 7-1
Must be 1 paragraph each. Include 2 specific examples with explanation.

2. Today Agenda Essential Questions FN: “Social and Cultural Tensions”
Homework:
Prepare for Vocab. Quiz
Finish EQ

3. Fabulous Friday, December 5, 2014
Take your seat
Take out your notebook
Quietly Review for your Vocab Quiz
Quiz on Ch. 7 Sec. 1 and 2
Please cross out Ch. 5 Sec. 3&4 and replace it with Ch. 7 Sec. 1&2

4. Today Agenda Vocabulary Quiz
FN Discussion: “Social and Cultural Tensions”
Homework:
Read Mark and annotate Documents
Work on any incomplete assignments in your ntoebook

5. Social and Cultural Tensions
EQ: How did Americans differ on major social and cultural issues?

6. Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
old North-South division of the nation was replaced by a new urban-rural division
new emphasis on science and non-religious values
Was strongest in cities
Fundamentalism
emphasized Protestant teachings especially that the Bible is the literal word of God
skeptical of the modernists faith in science to solve society’s problems
was strongest in rural areas
Billy Sunday crusaded against alcohol, communism, gambling, dancing, promiscuity
he believed that Prohibition would end all sin
Why was modernism stronger in the cities and Fundamentalism stronger in rural areas?
What issues will these opposing view pointes create? Why?

7. Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
TN made it illegal to teach evolution, which John Scopes did
the trial became a battle between modernism and fundamentalism
Clarence Darrow of the ACLU defended Scopes
William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution
Why does this trial become the “show down” between fundamentalists and modernism?

8. Nativism – The “Red Scare”
Palmer Raids,
A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General) created the FBI with J. Edgar Hoover to search for Communists
mail bombs exploded in 8 cities in the same hour, one blew off the hands of a maid in Palmer’s home
4, ,000 were arrested, beaten or deported
the government ignored the Bill of Rights in favor of getting rid of the “Reds”
Why did communism scare the U.S. so much?

9. Nativism & Immigration: The Quota System
a set number of people that are allowed to immigrate in one year
Italian immigration plummeted from 200,000 to 4,000 per year
the Emergency Quota Act, limited immigration to 3% of the nationality in the US in 1910
the National Origins Act, limited immigration to 2% of the nationality in the US in 1890
banned all Asian immigrants but not Latin Americans
Why do you think there was such as serge of nativism in the 1920’s?
Do we still see nativism in today’s society?

10. Nativism & Racism Ku Klux Klan, 1915 “defenders of WASP values”
blamed Jews, blacks, Catholics, immigrants for everything
had over 5 million members before the group collapsed in late 1920s

11. Combating Nativism American Civil Liberties Union, 1920
formed to protect the rights of accused communists
uses law suits and Congress to protect people’s basic freedoms
Anti-Defamation League, 1913
formed to protect the rights of Jewish People
more broadly it fights against bigotry and prejudice for all people
How effective do you think these type of organizations are in helping minorities in the United States?
Do we still need organizations like this today? If so what issues do you think they should focus on in order to improve American lives?

12. Nativism (video) Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, 1921
two Italians accused of murder
the evidence was thin but they were anarchists and had dodged the draft in WWI
judge declared their guilt before the trial began and they were electrocuted in 1927
anti-foreign sentiment made their trial a farce
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13. Prohibition Eighteenth Amendment, 1919 Volstead Act, 1919
changed alcohol laws from state to federal authority
Volstead Act, 1919
banned sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol
allowed less than 3% alcohol content and had a religious exception

14. Prohibition Prohibition’s Legacy
alcohol was smuggled into the US from Canada and Mexico
organized crime grew in wealth and power
political officials and law enforcement were bribed
Attorney General sold liquor licenses
Harding drank at parties in the White House
more acceptable for women to drink in public
combination of speakeasies and flapper culture

15. Prohibition Al Capone St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1929
most famous mafia leader based in Chicago
controlled bootlegging from Canada to Florida
over 10,000 Chicago speakeasies
jailed in 1932 for tax evasion and was put in Alcatraz
died in 1950
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1929
public outrage led to more pressure on organized crime
Capone tried to wipe out his rival Bugsy Moran
Murray the Hump, Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn
7 men were shot to death in the middle of the day by mafia dressed up like the police
What were the arguments for and against prohibition? Do they share any similarities? ( )
Why did prohibition lead to the development of so much crime?