1. Clash between Traditionalists and Modernists
Ch. 28 in TCI

2. Add to your notebook
Clash between Traditionalists and Modernists (ch. 29)

3. Essential Question
How did Traditionalists and Modernists Clash during the 1920s?

4. Traditionalists
Favored the old ways, religious, saw it as stable and tested.

5. Modernists
People who liked new ideas, styles. Saw traditionalists as old fashioned

6. Urban (city) vs. Rural (farms)
Life in cities more prosperous (modernists)
Life on farms was tough. (traditionalists)
Less demand from Europeans after WW1
Congress boosted crop prices (subsidy) w/ McNary-Haugen Bill
Pres. Coolidge, vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill. Crop prices fell, farmers incomes dropped.

7. Rise in Christian Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism: Bible should be taken as the law. Many farmers turn towards religion as the backbone of society. See modernists as turning away from good values Modernists view Traditionalists as outdated and old fashioned.

8. Change in Women’s attitude.
19th Amendment = Votes for Women Increase in women going to school, work, voting

9. Change in Women’s attitude.
Flappers: the new modernist style. Going out, partying, drinking.

10. Prohibition (Wet. Vs Dry)
18th Ammendment: Prohibition. Volstead Act: Enforcement of Prohibition. Dry’s (Pro-Prohibition): Alcohol leads to bad society, abuse, violence, bad behavior Wets: Prohibition leads to crime, restricts freedom.

12. The wets were right.
Speakeasies: Secret bars Bootlegging: Smuggling Alcohol Al Capone

13. 21st Amendment (1933) Prohibition ends.

14. Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Creationism (Bible) vs. Evolution (science) on how the earth was created. Tennessee bans teaching of evolution John Scopes teaches evolution, went to court, fined. God vs. Science.

15. Comic Book or Story
Design a Comic or Story based around the tensions felt between Traditionalist and Modernists. It must involve at traditionalists and modernists discussing the issues. It must discuss the following topics, Prohibition, Scopes Monkey Trial, Flappers, Urban vs. Rural,