Download Topic 4d Notes-Uncertainty in the 1920s

Topic 4d Notes-Uncertainty
in the 1920s
1. Examine the clash between science and religion that occurred in the
1920s in the United States
2. Analyze how foreign events after World War I and nativism led to
the first Red Scare and immigrant quotas
3. Analyze the intended and unintended consequences of Prohibition.
Scopes Trial
• 1920s-modernism-emphasis of
science and secular values as
opposed to religious ones
• Other side-fundamentalists-belief
that every word in Bible was truth
• TN-illegal to teach evolution
• High school biology teacher John
Scopes taught theory-arrested
• Trial drew national attentionScopes found guilty
• Conflict between two sides
continued-not settled by outcome
of this case
Red Scare/Palmer Raids
• USSR & Russian Revolutionfrightened Americans
• Caused Red Scare-fear of
Communist Revolution in US
• Atty. General A. Mitchell Palmerled series of raids that arrested
thousands
• Accompanied by paranoia,
violence, and unlawful
convictions
Immigration/Ku Klux Klan
• Nativism thought still very
popular
• Pro-immigrant side v. Antiimmigrant side (eugenics)
• Immigrant quotas (2% of total)
• Reorganization of the Klan
• More targets: Blacks, Catholics,
Jews, Immigrants, Labor Union
leaders
Prohibition
• 1919-Passage of 18th
Amendment-prohibition of
alcohol (Progressive success)
• Drys vs. Wets
• Bootleggers sold alcohol illegally
& birth of speakeasies
• Al Calpone-huge consequences
for organized crime
• 1933-passage of 21st
Amendment-end of Prohibition
1920s Review
• Things are changing in 1920s United States
• Economy-new consumers and economic layout
• Political-new style of government
• Social-forms of entertainment, values, etc.
• Issues
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Women
African-Americans
Immigrants
Future of United States