1. Clash of Values Wanted to preserve traditional values
Feared ‘new morality’ was taking over and changing traditional ways of behavior
New morality – glorified youth and personal freedom

2. Sacco and Vanzetti Tried for murder and robbery
Evidence against them was questionable
Because they were anarchists and immigrants led people to assume they were guilty
Found guilty and executed after 6 appeals in 1927

3. Rise of KKK Wanted to restrict immigration
Wanted to preserve America’s white, native-born, protestant civilization
New targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants

4. Women’s Rights 19th amendment = women’s suffrage
Women wanted to break free from traditional roles and behaviors
Automobile allowed young women to go on dates outside of home
Some women got jobs to break away from parental authority and become financially independent

5. Women’s styles Fashion for women changed
Flapper – smoke cigarettes, drank prohibited alcohol, wore make-up, and sleeveless dresses with short skirts
Women began shortening hair and changing style to copy movie star looks

6. Women as Professionals
Women who attended college were encouraged to pursue careers and to challenge traditional ides about women’s role in society
Professional women made contributions in science, medicine, law and literature
Margaret Sanger – believed families could improve standard of living by limiting children they had
Founded Birth Control League to promote knowledge of birth control
This became Planned Parenthood in the 1940s

7. Fundamentalism
Fundamentalists believed that the Bible was literally true
Rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution – belief that human beings developed from lower forms of life
Only believed in creationism – belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

8. Scopes Trial Tennessee outlawed any teaching other than creationism
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union advertised for a teacher willing to be arrested for teaching evolution
John Scopes a biology teacher in Dayton, TN volunteered, taught evolution, and was arrested

9. Scopes Trial continued
William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor who represented creationists
Clarence Darrow defended Scopes
Scopes found guilty
Trial broadcast over radio and people heard tough cross examination by Darrow that hurt the Fundamentalist cause

10. Prohibition Support for Prohibition causes:
Religious reasons
Thought would reduce, unemployment, domestic violence, and poverty
18th amendment – banned alcohol
Volstead Act – made the US Treasury responsible for enforcing Prohibition

11. Problems of Prohibition
Americans blatantly ignore law
Speakeasies – secret bars where you could purchase alcohol
Bootlegging – illegal distribution of liquor was common in rural areas
Organized crime thrived on the illegal trade of alcohol
Al Capone was most notorious gangster
Had police, judges and other officials on payroll
Eventually brought to justice by Eliot Ness and found guilty of tax invasion
21st amendment – repealed 18th amendment and ended Prohibition
Prohibition reduced alcohol consumption but did not improve society they way supporters had hoped