Clash between Traditionalists and Modernists

Ch. 28 in TCI

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Clash between Traditionalists and Modernists (ch. 29)

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Essential Question

How did Traditionalists and Modernists Clash during the 1920s?

TraditionalistsFavored the old ways, religious, saw it as stable and tested.

Modernists

People who liked new ideas, styles. Saw traditionalists as old fashioned

Urban (city) vs. Rural (farms)

Life in cities more prosperous (modernists)

Life on farms was tough. (traditionalists) • Less demand from Europeans after WW1• Congress boosted crop prices (subsidy) w/

McNary-Haugen Bill• Pres. Coolidge, vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill.

Crop prices fell, farmers incomes dropped.

Rise in Christian Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism: Bible should be taken as the law.

Many farmers turn towards religion as the backbone of society. See modernists as turning away from good values

Modernists view Traditionalists as outdated and old fashioned.

Change in Women’s attitude.

19th Amendment = Votes for WomenIncrease in women going to school, work, voting

Change in Women’s attitude.

Flappers: the new modernist style. Going out, partying, drinking.

Prohibition (Wet. Vs Dry)

18th Ammendment: Prohibition. Volstead Act: Enforcement of Prohibition.

Dry’s (Pro-Prohibition): Alcohol leads to bad society, abuse, violence, bad behavior

Wets: Prohibition leads to crime, restricts freedom.

The wets were right. Speakeasies: Secret barsBootlegging: Smuggling AlcoholAl Capone

21st Amendment (1933) Prohibition ends.

Scopes “Monkey” Trial

Creationism (Bible) vs. Evolution (science) on how the earth was created.

Tennessee bans teaching of evolution

John Scopes teaches evolution, went to court, fined.

God vs. Science.

Comic Book or Story

Design a Comic or Story based around the tensions felt between Traditionalist and Modernists.

It must involve at traditionalists and modernists discussing the issues.

It must discuss the following topics, Prohibition, Scopes Monkey Trial, Flappers, Urban vs. Rural,