1. A Clash of Values
The Roaring 20s

2. Presidents Wilson suffered from a stroke in late 1919
He remained secluded from the public until the end of his presidency
On the promise for a “return to normalcy”, Warren G. Harding won the election of 1921
Harding died of a sudden fatal heart attack in 1923 and Calvin Coolidge, his vice president, was sworn into office
Coolidge was president until 1929 and had the nickname “Silent Cal”

3. Harding Coolidge

4. Teapot Dome Scandal
Albert Bacon Fall
Edward Doheny
Harry Sinclair

5. Nativism and Immigration Policies
Nativism -emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences.
Anti-immigration sentiment

6. National Origins Quota and Emergency Quota Act
Emergency Quota Act signed by Harding in 1921
Restricted annual admission to 3% of the population of each ethnic group from the 1910 census
National Origins Act passed in 1924
Set quotas at 2% of each national group represented in the U.S. census in 1890
Also included the entire population of a group, not just immigrants

7. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian immigrants
Anarchists
Found guilty of a crime they most likely did not commit
Executed

8. Return of the Ku Klux Klan
William J. Simmons
Pledged to preserve America’s white, Protestant civilization
Targeted Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and others
1924 membership was close to 4,000,000 (about 4% of the population)
What is this poster trying to convey?

9. The Birth of a Nation First true blockbuster movie -1915
About the Civil War and Reconstruction
Glorified the Ku Klux Klan
Was very popular for many, very controversial for others
Was screen in the White House under Wilson

10. Clash of Cultures Women gained the right to vote in 1920
Took jobs to gain fiscal independence
New ideas of romance and marriage
Fashion changed
“New Morality”

11. Eugenics
Buck v Bell –mother and daughter who were determined to be “feebleminded”
An estimated 65,000 Americans were sterilized without their own consent or that of a family member. 

13. “Flappers”

19. Religious Fundamentalism
Many Americans feared that the country was losing its traditional values
Creationism vs. Evolution
Scopes Monkey Trial
John T. Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow

20. Prohibition The Eighteenth Amendment The Volstead Act
U.S. Treasury Department had the power to enforce Prohibition
540,000 arrests made
Americans still ignored the law

21. Speakeasies Secret Bars Bootlegging
Smuggling liquor from Canada and the Caribbean
Organized crime became huge
Al Capone

22. Al Capone

23. Repeal of Prohibition
The battle to repeal Prohibition began almost as soon as the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified
Twenty-first Amendment
1933

24. Let’s Review -Choose one of the questions below
Why did Nativism strengthen during the 1920s, and how did the government deal with the tensions?
Nativism: emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences.
Why do you think some Americans feared the “new morality”?
New Morality: The trend that glorified youth and personal freedom - particularly to the status of women.