1. Section 1-A Clash of Values
CHAPTER 20-The Jazz Age
Section 1-A Clash of Values

2. Key Idea
During the 1920s, clashes between traditional and modern values shook the U.S.

3. Nativism Resurges In the 1920’s racism and nativism increased
Fear of Germans and Communists expand to all immigrants
Competition for jobs increased
How and why does this happen?

6. Nativism Resurges Sacco and Vanzetti case (April 1920) Eugenics
Accused of murder and theft
Italian immigrants and anarchists
Executed August 1927
Eugenics
Improve hereditary traits
Major proponent - Woodrow Wilson  immigration control
What foreign country practiced this in the 1930’s and 1940’s?

8. Nativism Resurges The Ku Klux Klan pushes to restrict immigration
Targets Jewish, Catholics, other “un- Americans”
Membership ↑ KKK spreads North
Laws that limit immigration force KKK out of spotlight, politics

9. Controlling Immigration
Emergency Quota Act (1921)
Limits immigration – 3% of total ethnic pop. already in US/yr
National Origins Act of 1924 makes this permanent
Lowers quota to 2% for each national group
Limits southern and eastern European immigrants
Hispanic immigration increases after the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Help with agriculture, mining, and railroad work
Western Hemisphere exempt from immigration laws

10. The New Morality
A “new morality” challenged traditional ideas, glorified youth and personal freedom
How can you compare this to today?
New ideas on marriage, work, entertainment, and a woman’s role in society
Automobile exemplifies this

11. The New Morality Women’s fashion drastically changed
Flappers
Professionally, women make advances in science, medicine and law
American Birth Control League – becomes Planned Parenthood

12. The Charleston http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR78tfjJVew

13. The Fundamentalist Movement
Some Americans feared the new morality
Fundamentalism
Rejected Darwin’s theory of Evolution
Champion Creationism
Bible is literally true
1925 Butler Act
Illegal to conflict with Creationism in Tennessee schools
Scopes Trial
HS teacher put on trial

14. Prohibition
Many people felt the 18th Amendment would better society – unemployment, poverty, domestic violence
Volstead Act – enforce Prohibition, Federal police powers expanded
Americans largely ignore Prohibition
Speakeasies
Crime becomes big business
Ex. Al Capone
21st amendment in 1933 ends prohibition - Why?
Victory for modernism/defeat for supporters of traditional values