1.  Do Now: What differences do you see between the Victorian woman on the left and the “flapper” on the right? What might that signify about the 1920s?

3.   Racial tensions  intolerance  Fear and prejudice towards Germans and Communists spread to all immigrants  Sacco and Vanzetti  Italian immigrants, anarchists, accused of murder in Boston  Sentenced to death, sparked worldwide outcry against unfair trial 1. Nativism

5.   Eugenics – pseudoscience, improving genetics  “superiority of the original American”  Ku Klux Klan – 4 million by 1924 1., continued

6.   Emergency Quota Act – discriminated against people from southern and eastern Europe  National Origins Act of 1924 – northwestern Europe accounted for 87% of total immigration quota  Exempted natives from Western Hemisphere because we needed farm labor from Mexico 2. Controlling Immigration

8.   18 th Amendment – January 1920  Volstead Act passed in order to enforce prohibition: Expanded police powers for federal gov’t  Americans ignored the law  increase in organized crime  Bootlegging  Speakeasies  Smuggling from Canada and Caribbean  Al Capone and other gangsters in major cities around the U.S. 3. Prohibition

9.   Fundamentalism – religious movement fighting against “moral decline”… believed  Bible is literally true  Darwin’s theory of evolution is false. Creationism, God created world, is true. 4. Fundamentalism

10.   Scopes Trial  Tennessee outlawed teaching of evolution with Butler Act (1925)  ACLU sponsored John Scopes, biology teacher to teach evolution  arrested and put on trial  William Jennings Bryan represented creationists, Clarence Darrow represented Scopes  Scopes lost, but technicality overturned decision later.  Public followed the trial… popular opinion led to fundamentalists losing support 4., cont.

11.   Glorified youth and personal freedom  Consumer culture  Women attend college, earn wages, express themselves with new fashions 5. New Morality

12.   Flapper – stylish woman who went against convention 5., continued Vs. Alice Joyce Norma Talmadge Marion Davies