Thursday, December 4, 2014

1. Thursday, December 4, 2014 • Take your seat • Take out your notebook • Quietly answer you essential questions Essential Questions: EQ 1: How did domestic and foreign policy change direction under Harding and Coolidge? Ch. 7-2 EQ2: How did the booming economy of the 1920’s lead to changes in American life? Ch. 7-1 Must be 1 paragraph each. Include 2 specific examples with explanation.

2. Today Agenda • Essential Questions • FN: “Social and Cultural Tensions” • Homework: • Prepare for Vocab. Quiz • Finish EQ

3. Fabulous Friday, December 5, 2014 • Take your seat • Take out your notebook • Quietly Review for your Vocab Quiz Quiz on Ch. 7 Sec. 1 and 2 Please cross out Ch. 5 Sec. 3&4 and replace it with Ch. 7 Sec. 1&2

4. Today Agenda • Vocabulary Quiz • FN Discussion: “Social and Cultural Tensions” • Homework: • Read Mark and annotate Documents • Work on any incomplete assignments in your notebook

5. Social and Cultural Tensions EQ: How did Americans differ on major social and cultural issues?

6. Modernism vs. Fundamentalism • Modernism • old North-South division of the nation was replaced by a new urban-rural division • new emphasis on science and non-religious values • Was strongest in cities • Fundamentalism • emphasized Protestant teachings especially that the Bible is the literal word of God • skeptical of the modernists faith in science to solve society’s problems • was strongest in rural areas • Billy Sunday crusaded against alcohol, communism, gambling, dancing, promiscuity • he believed that Prohibition would end all sin • Why was modernism stronger in the cities and Fundamentalism stronger in rural areas? • What issues will these opposing view pointes create? Why?

7. Modernism vs. Fundamentalism • Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 • TN made it illegal to teach evolution, which John Scopes did • the trial became a battle between modernism and fundamentalism • Clarence Darrow of the ACLU defended Scopes • William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution Why does this trial become the “show down” between fundamentalists and modernism?

8. Nativism – The “Red Scare” • Palmer Raids, 1919-1920 • A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General) created the FBI with J. Edgar Hoover to search for Communists • mail bombs exploded in 8 cities in the same hour, one blew off the hands of a maid in Palmer’s home • 4,000 - 10,000 were arrested, beaten or deported • the government ignored the Bill of Rights in favor of getting rid of the “Reds” Why did communism scare the U.S. so much?

9. Marvelous Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 • Take your seat • Take out your notebook • Precious Time Precious Time for “Social and Cultural Tensions” Notes • Add questions • Highlight • When finished with this work on anything that is incomplete

10. Today Agenda • Precious Time • FN Discussion: “Social and Cultural Tensions” • Document/Discussions/questions • Homework: • Read Ch. 7 Sec. 4 • Take notes “A New Mass Culture”

11. Nativism & Immigration: The Quota System • a set number of people that are allowed to immigrate in one year • Italian immigration plummeted from 200,000 to 4,000 per year • the Emergency Quota Act, 1921 -limited immigration to 3% of the nationality in the US in 1910 • the National Origins Act, 1924 -limited immigration to 2% of the nationality in the US in 1890 • banned all Asian immigrants but not Latin Americans • Why do you think there was such as serge of nativism in the 1920’s? • Do we still see nativism in today’s society?

12. Nativism & Racism • Ku Klux Klan, 1915 • “defenders of WASP values” • blamed Jews, blacks, Catholics, immigrants for everything • had over 5 million members before the group collapsed in late 1920s

13. Combating Nativism • American Civil Liberties Union, 1920 • formed to protect the rights of accused communists • uses law suits and Congress to protect people’s basic freedoms • Anti-Defamation League, 1913 • formed to protect the rights of Jewish People • more broadly it fights against bigotry and prejudice for all people • How effective do you think these type of organizations are in helping minorities in the United States? • Do we still need organizations like this today? If so what issues do you think they should focus on in order to improve American lives?

14. Nativism (video) Don’t Copy • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, 1921 • two Italians accused of murder • the evidence was thin but they were anarchists and had dodged the draft in WWI • judge declared their guilt before the trial began and they were electrocuted in 1927 • anti-foreign sentiment made their trial a farce

15. Prohibition • Eighteenth Amendment, 1919 • changed alcohol laws from state to federal authority • Volstead Act, 1919 • banned sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol • allowed less than 3% alcohol content and had a religious exception

16. Prohibition Prohibition’s Legacy • alcohol was smuggled into the US from Canada and Mexico • organized crime grew in wealth and power • political officials and law enforcement were bribed • Attorney General sold liquor licenses • Harding drank at parties in the White House • more acceptable for women to drink in public • combination of speakeasies and flapper culture

17. Prohibition • Al Capone • most famous mafia leader based in Chicago • controlled bootlegging from Canada to Florida • over 10,000 Chicago speakeasies • jailed in 1932 for tax evasion and was put in Alcatraz • died in 1950 • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1929 • public outrage led to more pressure on organized crime • Capone tried to wipe out his rival Bugsy Moran • Murray the Hump, Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn • 7 men were shot to death in the middle of the day by mafia dressed up like the police • What were the arguments for and against prohibition? Do they share any similarities? (229-230) • Why did prohibition lead to the development of so much crime?