CH 15 SECTION 1

A CLASH OF VALUES

I. Nativism ResurgesA. Immigrants and demobilized military competed for jobs.

1. High Unemployment2. High cost of living

B. Ethnic Prejudices1. Sacco and Vanzetti case2. Anarchists

C. Eugenics1. False Science2. Inferior people should not be allowed to breed?

D. The Ku Klux Klan1. Targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews and immigrants.

II. Controlling ImmigrationA. Emergency Quota Act of 1921

1. Discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans.

B. National Origins Act of 19241. Lowered the quotas

C. Immigration Acts of 1921 and 19241. Reduced labor pool2. Increased the number of Mexican Immigrants

III. The New MoralityA. Challenged traditional ideas + glorified youth and

personal freedom1. New ideas about marriage, work and pleasure2. Women entered the workforce3. Automobile opened up new opportunities.

B. Women’s fashions1. The Flapper-

IV. FundamentalismA. Rejected Theory of EvolutionB. Believed in CreationismC. Scopes Trial

V. ProhibitionA. 18th Amendment – Prohibited alcohol

1. Meant to reduce unemployment, domestic violence and poverty.

B. Volstead Act – Made enforcement responsibility of Treasury Department

C. Americans Ignored Prohibition1. Speakeasies-Secret Bars2. Organized Crime became big business

D. 21st Amendment ended Prohibition

Section 2I. Art and Literature

A. Challenging traditional ideas1. Searching for meaning in the world

B. Bohemian or unconventional lifestyle1. Greenwich Village in Manhattan2. Chicago’s South Side

C. Modernist ArtD. Writing

1. Carl Sandburg2. Eugene O’Neill

II. Popular CultureA. Economic Prosperity = Leisure TimeB. Sports

1. Babe Ruth

2. Jack Dempsey

C. Motion Pictures1. The Jazz Singer

D. Mass Media• 1. Radio, movies, newspapers, magazines

2. United the nation and spread new ideas

Section 3I. The Harlem Renaissance

A. The Great MigrationB. Harlem Renaissance – Rebirth of African CultureC. Writers

1. Claude McKay-Defiance and contempt for racism

2. Langston HughesD. Music

1. Louis Armstrong-jazz2. The Cotton Club3. Duke Ellington4. Bessie Smith-The Blues

Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith

II. African American PoliticsA. Became powerful voting blocks

1. Oscar DePriest-1st Northern African American in Congress

B. NAACP1. Battled segregation and discrimination2. Anti-lynching laws in the House of Rep.

C. Marcus Garvey- “Negro Nationalism”1. Founded the UNIA2. Promoted black pride and unity3. Preached separation from whites

D. Liberia1. Return to Africa and set up an African Nation made up of “African Americans”