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Ch 15 Section 1 A Clash of Values

Ch 15 Section 1 A Clash of Values. Nativism Resurges Immigrants and demobilized military competed for jobs. 1. High Unemployment 2. High cost of living B. Ethnic Prejudices 1. Sacco and Vanzetti case 2. Anarchists C. Eugenics 1. False Science

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Ch 15 Section 1 A Clash of Values

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  1. Ch 15 Section 1A Clash of Values

  2. Nativism Resurges • Immigrants and demobilized military competed for jobs. • 1. High Unemployment • 2. High cost of living • B. Ethnic Prejudices • 1. Sacco and Vanzetti case • 2. Anarchists • C. Eugenics • 1. False Science • 2. Inferior people should not be allowed to breed? • D. The Ku Klux Klan • 1. Targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews and immigrants.

  3. II. Controlling Immigration A. Emergency Quota Act of 1921 1. Discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans. B. National Origins Act of 1924 1. Lowered the quotas C. Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 1. Reduced labor pool 2. Increased the number of Mexican Immigrants III. The New Morality A. Challenged traditional ideas + glorified youth and personal freedom 1. New ideas about marriage, work and pleasure 2. Women entered the workforce 3. Automobile opened up new opportunities.

  4. B. Women’s fashions 1. The Flapper- IV. Fundamentalism A. Rejected Theory of Evolution B. Believed in Creationism C. Scopes Trial

  5. V. Prohibition A. 18th Amendment – Prohibited alcohol 1. Meant to reduce unemployment, domestic violence and poverty. B. Volstead Act – Made enforcement responsibility of Treasury Department

  6. C. Americans Ignored Prohibition 1. Speakeasies-Secret Bars 2. Organized Crime became big business D. 21st Amendment ended Prohibition

  7. Section 2 Art and Literature A. Challenging traditional ideas 1. Searching for meaning in the world B. Bohemian or unconventional lifestyle 1. Greenwich Village in Manhattan 2. Chicago’s South Side C. Modernist Art D. Writing 1. Carl Sandburg 2. Eugene O’Neill

  8. II. Popular Culture A. Economic Prosperity = Leisure Time B. Sports 1. Babe Ruth 2. Jack Dempsey

  9. C. Motion Pictures • 1. The Jazz Singer • D. Mass Media • 1. Radio, movies, newspapers, magazines • 2. United the nation and spread new ideas

  10. Section 3 The Harlem Renaissance A. The Great Migration B. Harlem Renaissance – Rebirth of African Culture C. Writers 1. Claude McKay-Defiance and contempt for racism 2. Langston Hughes D. Music 1. Louis Armstrong-jazz 2. The Cotton Club 3. Duke Ellington 4. Bessie Smith-The Blues

  11. Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith

  12. II. African American Politics A. Became powerful voting blocks 1. Oscar DePriest-1st Northern African American in Congress B. NAACP 1. Battled segregation and discrimination 2. Anti-lynching laws in the House of Rep. C. Marcus Garvey- “Negro Nationalism” 1. Founded the UNIA 2. Promoted black pride and unity 3. Preached separation from whites D. Liberia 1. Return to Africa and set up an African Nation made up of “African Americans”

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