1. Social and Cultural Tensions
Chapter 25: Section 3
Social and Cultural Tensions
“I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I”ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I”ve got a head. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it ‘till I go home to Glory.” Billy Sunday, sermon
Younger, urban workers who wanted to take advantage of the new pleasures the Jazz Age offered
Who wouldn’t agree with Sunday’s message?
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How did Americans differ on major social and cultural issues?

2. Overview of the 1920s

3. Traditionalism and Modernism Clash
Education Becomes
More Important
Religious
Fundamentalism
Grows
Americans Clash
Over
Evolution
Scopes Trial 1925
Turn to pg 743 in your book
City Dwellers v. Rural Dwellers

4. Restricting Immigration
Nativists Oppose Immigration
Took away jobs
Communist scare
Quota Laws Limit Newcomers
Emergency Quota Act
National Origins Act
More Mexicans Come North
Quota system did not apply
To Mexico

5. American Issues Connector
1882-Chinese Exclusion Act
1924-National Origins Act
1952-McCarran-Walter Act
1965-Immigration Act amended
1986-Immigration & Reform Control Act
2004-Guest Worker Program
“There are significant numbers of illegal immigrants living and working and paying taxes in the United States, raising their families here. They’re clearly needed in our economy. It makes sense to bring them out of the shadows and give them full access to their rights”
Amnesty for illegal aliens is simply reward for law-breaking. No system depending on a strict regard for the national law can treat law-breaking so casually. Amnesty will be a magnet for further illegal immigrants, who hope to be the future recipients of the nations “compassion”.

6. The New Ku Klux Klan The Klan Rises Again Americans Oppose the Klan
Doctrines of hate
Employed violence
Geared towards African-Americans, Jews, immigrants
4-5 million members
Indiana-David Stephenson
Americans Oppose the Klan
NAACP, Individuals, Jewish Anti-Defamation League
Embraced diversity

7. Prohibition and Crime Government Bans Alcoholic Beverages
Prohibition-18th amendment
“Drys” & “Wets”
Americans Break the Law
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Al Capone
Prohibition Divides the Nation
Rural v. Urban
21st amendment-repealed prohibition