Chapter 29

1. Chapter 29 Traditionalists v. Modernists

2. Warm up • What new ideas, inventions, trends, events and legislation developed in the 1920s? • Watch slideshow.

3. Mass production and the birth of advertising

4. Mass production • the production of a large amount of standardized products

5. Advertising • Communication designed to persuade the consumer to buy a product

6. Lost Generation • a group of young Americans – including E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson – who established themselves as prominent postwar writers during the 1920s

7. Essential Question • How did social, economic, and religious tensions divide Americans in the Roaring Twenties?

8. Modernist a person who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends • Drinking, gambling, and going on casual dates • 19 million people moved from farms to cities

9. Traditionalist • a person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values • saw the Bible as fundamental • valued agricultural production

10. Equal rights amendment • A proposed but ungratified Constitutional amendment first introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul for the purpose of guaranteeing equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender

12. Equal rights amendment • Traditionalist View • Minimum wage • Limited work hours • Union protection • Women belong in the home • Modernist View • Jury service • Owning property • Guardianship over children • Women should have economic independence

13. Discussion Questions • 1) Would you vote to pass the ERA? • Identify 2 arguments to support claim • Identify 1 counterargument to reject opposing side.

14. Procedures • Choose 1 presenter • “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” • “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” • +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument • -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

15. Historical Outcome • Not passed • Critics argued the ERA would eliminate state and local laws protecting women

16. Volstead Act • a law passed by Congress in 1919 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

17. Prohibition • Traditionalist View • Alcohol caused crime, violence, breakup of families • Would curb beer drinking with immigrants • Spend less wages at saloons and more time benefiting families • Modernist View • Argued that drinking was not a sin • Government would need 250,000 agents to make it work • People started brewing “bathtub gin”

18. 2. Discussion Question • If you lived in the 1920s, would you pass the Volstead Act? • Identify 2 arguments to support claim • Identify 1 counterargument

19. Procedures • Choose 1 presenter • “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” • “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” • +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument • -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

20. Historical Outcome • As lawlessness, violence and corruption increased, many Americans believed that prohibition would do more harm than good • 21st Amendment repealed prohibition

21. Scopes trial • A criminal trial that tested the constitutionality of a law banning the theory of evolution in 1925 • Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in public schools • John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in his science class.

22. Scopes trial • Traditionalist • “If evolution wins, Christianity goes.” • “Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.” • Modernist View • ACLU represented Scopes • “violation of my academic freedom” • “To teach the truth as guaranteed in our Constitution.”

23. “What would the verdict be?”

24. 3. Discussion Question • Does John Scopes have the Constitutional right to teach evolution in his science class? • Identify 2 arguments to support claim • Identify 1 counterargument

25. Procedures • Choose 1 presenter • “As traditionalists/modernists, my group…” • “My group agrees/disagrees with your group because…” • +1: make a valid argument, use a fact from the text, counter another group’s argument • -1: talking while another group is speaking, verbally attacking a person instead of his or her argument

26. Historical Outcome • John Scopes was found guilty. Judge fined him $100. • The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision. • The separation of church and state still subject to debate.

27. Essential Question • How did social, economic, and religious tensions divide Americans in the Roaring Twenties?