1. Changes in 1920s: The Bad Stuff
USH-6.2

2. I. Women Win suffrage with the 19th amendment in 1920
Tend to vote the same as their husbands
Replace men in factories during WWI
Jobs are taken when the men return from WWI
Still teachers, nurses, secretaries
Women make less money

3. II. Immigration WWI nationalism turns nativism into xenophobia
Fear of foreigners
Russian Revolution
Socialism, communism, and anarchism spread
European immigrants bring ideas over
Anarchist bomb 8 US cities in 1919

4. II. Immigration Fear of these things lead to a Red Scare
Attorney General Palmer wants to run for president
Leads the Palmer Raids
Arrests over 4,000 alleged communists
Hundreds were deported
Predicted anarchist attacks that never happened

5. II. Immigration Congress passed immigration quotas
Limits on who and how many foreigners could enter the US
Based on Social Darwinism
Eastern and Southern Europeans were severely limited
Asian were banned

6. III. Racism Anti-immigration leads to a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
The Birth of a Nation was a movie that glorified the Klan
Spread Klan ideas around the US
Grows into a national organization

7. III. Racism KKK hates all those not considered “real Americans”
Radicals
Immigrants
Catholics
Bootleggers
Blacks
See themselves as the moral regulators of the US
Corruption & sex scandals hurt that public view

8. IV. Temperance
Calling for prohibition since the 1830s b/c of immigration
WWI made it successful
Grain shortages
Turned into alcohol
Anti-German feelings
Opinion says immigrants drink a lot more than Americans
18th Amendment started Prohibition

9. IV. Temperance Drinking continued
Speakeasies open
Bootlegging leads to organized crime
No level of gov’t had the manpower to stop it
21st Amendment is passed in 1933 and ends Prohibition

10. V. Religion v Science There was a religious revival in the early 1900s
Darwin’s theory of evolution challenged the Bible
John Scopes Monkey Trial
Teacher in Tennessee taught evolution in Biology
It was against the law in TN
Went to court and was fined $100
Both sides felt they won
Issue is still debated