1. Time Period 6.3.2 Social Change
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2. Social changes inspired debate over citizenship, corruption, and the relationship between business and Government

3. C. The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v
C. The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that African Americans could be separate but equal. African Americans still faced violence and discrimination. African Reformers continued to fight for political and social equality

4. Details Jim Crow laws Poll taxes Grandfather laws
Laws in the south that enforced racial segregation
Poll taxes
A fee that made it difficult for African Americans to vote
Grandfather laws
Loophole around the poll tax and literacy tests to give poor, uneducated, white men voting rights
Literacy tests to vote
Written test that was a part of voter registration in order to deny suffrage to African Americans
Impact of Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but equal for African Americans

5. Details Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise (1895)
Spoke to a primarily white audience about racial cooperation and acceptance of racial segregation
National Association of Colored Women (1896)
Promoted equal protection of the rights of African Americans women and children
Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Lyric of Lowly Life (1896)
Collection of poetry that captured the experience of poor treatment for African Americans
Slave era
Jim Crow era

6. Time Period 7.2.1 Popular Culture

7. The influence of popular culture grew in the U. S
The influence of popular culture grew in the U.S. even though there had been an increase of debates over the effects of culture on public views, morals, and American national identity

8. Restrictions on freedom of speech grew during WW1; increased anxiety about radicalism led to attacks on labor activism and immigrant culture

9. Details Red Scare Immigration Act of 1917
Real or imagined promotion of fear of communism, anarchism, and radical leftism
Immigration Act of 1917
Law that restricted “undesirables” from immigration to America
Espionage and Sedition Acts ( )
Prohibited many forms of speech
Schenck vs U.S. (1919)
Supreme Court case concerning espionage; limits on the first amendment
Palmer Raids (1920)
Arrested suspected radical leftist, anarchist and deported them from the U.S.

10. In the 1920s, cultural and political controversies emerged as Americans debated gender roles, modernism, science, religion, and issues related to race and immigration.

11. Details Flappers Fundamentalism vs. Modernism
Women who were characterized by their bobbed hair, short skirts, and enjoyment of jazz music
Fundamentalism vs. Modernism
Fundamentalism- emphasis on a literal reading of the Bible, remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life
Modernism- Questioning of social conventions and traditional authorities, considered outmoded by the accelerating changes of twentieth-century life
Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925)
Between John Thomas Scopes and the state of Tennessee
Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 ($1300)
Butler Act forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools
John Thomas was charged for violated Tennessee law against teaching evolution instead of divine creation of man