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Cultural Conflicts

Cultural Conflicts. Section 9.3. Today’s Agenda. 9.3 Slide Show KKK Presentation Homework Read 9.3 Unit Test on Roaring 20s this Thursday Based on all of chapter 8, 9.2 & 9.3.

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Cultural Conflicts

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  1. Cultural Conflicts Section 9.3

  2. Today’s Agenda • 9.3 Slide Show • KKK Presentation • Homework • Read 9.3 • Unit Test on Roaring 20s this Thursday • Based on all of chapter 8, 9.2 & 9.3

  3. Today we will be able to identify the issues that created cultural conflicts in the 1920’s by analyzing the outcomes of: The Scopes Trial The KKK in the 1920’s Prohibition Laws Immigration Laws in the 1920’s

  4. Is America morally bankrupt?

  5. How much influence should religion have over our government, our laws?

  6. Fibonacci sequence

  7. Cultural Conflicts

  8. What issues sparked the Scopes Trial? “The Monkey Trial” (1925) Trial over legality of teaching Evolution over Creationism in public schools Evolution Charles Darwin’s theory that all species change over time Suggested that the Bible was inaccurate Creationism Belief that all humans came from Adam and Eve

  9. What issues sparked the Scopes Trial? • Butler Act • Tennessee law that forbade teaching of any story that denied the story of creation (the Bible) • ACLU • American Civil Liberties Union • Sought a teacher willing to violate the law and test it in court • John Scopes • Science Teacher in Dayton Tenn. • Agreed to challenge the law by teaching evolution

  10. Describe the Scopes Trial. • Clarence Darrow- Famed Urban Liberal, hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes. • William Jennings Bryan- Joined the Prosecution. • Three time presidential candidate • Champion of Rural America • Fundamentalist Christian • Believed in literal interpretation of the Bible • Circus-like atmosphere • Hundreds of reporters

  11. What was the outcome of the Trial? • Scopes found guilty • Fined $100 • Darrow exposed contradictions in Bible and Creationist argument • Showed the cultural division within the country

  12. Scopes Trial

  13. Should the Government have the right to control what you do?

  14. What is social engineering? • Governmental policies meant to shape moral behavior of citizens • Fundamentalist Christians • believed behavior should and could be controlled • Encouraged passage of 18th Amendment • Volstead Act- Act created to enforce prohibition

  15. Did prohibition decreased the consumption of alcohol? • Only lower classes • Closed saloons • Speakeasies too expensive • Most Americans ignored the law • Hard to enforce

  16. Why was Prohibition hard to enforce? • 10, 000 miles of coastline • Bootlegging was so profitable • Alcohol legal at drug stores, on ships off the coast • Distilling easy • Corruption • Police force easily bribed • Too few government agents to enforce it

  17. How could one acquire alcohol? • Speakeasy • Neighborhood distillery • Took Prohibition agent 35 seconds to get a drink in New Orleans • “prescription” from pharmacist

  18. Who was Al Capone? • Head of Chicago bootlegging gang • Controlled network of organized crime • Owned distilleries, trucks, speakeasies, judges, police commissioners • Used violence, bribery • Even bribed public

  19. Prohibition

  20. Ku Klux Klan Presentation

  21. Ku Klux Klan

  22. Describe the KKK of the 1920s. • Rapidly growing in Midwest and Northeast • Originated during Reconstruction • New Klan hated: • Blacks, Mexicans, Japanese, Jews, French Canadians • Hooded robes, burning crosses • Attracted uneducated poor whites • Chapters in Detroit, Pittsburg, New Jersey, and Indianapolis • Reaction to Great Migration

  23. Describe the Klan’s Creed. • Racial purity • Nordic racial superiority • guardians of traditional American morals • 5 million members • Declined after 1925 • Klansman David Stephenson convicted of rape and murder

  24. Effects of the KKK

  25. How did immigration change during the 1920s? • Foreigners viewed as corrupting force on traditional values • Immigration Act (1921) • Quota • Limited number of all countries to 3% of that ethnic group (1910 census) • Ex. 100, 000 Italian immigrants in US in 1910 • Only 3 thousand allowed in 1921 • National Origins Act (1924) • Reduced quota to 2% (1890 census) • Excluded Asians altogether

  26. Speakeasy Simulation • Presentations • Volstead Act • Capone • Flapper • Ness • Duke Ellington • Josephine Baker • Babe Ruth

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