Transcript Chapter 11 section 3

Social and Cultural Tensions
 How did Americans differ on major social and cultural
issues?
 1920’s America
 City dwellers = rising standard of living
 Farmers = hard times
 Urban-Rural divide
 1920 census = more live in urban areas than rural
 Conflicting visions of what nation should be
 two groups divided on most every issue
 Rural
 not very important to farmers
 Takes time away from chores
 Crop knowledge/fitness more important than book
learnin
 Urban
 Very important
 Could mean difference in good and bad job
 Some believe Christianity under attack in world
 USSR attacks church etc.
 People upset with secular trends in religion and culture
 Every word in the Bible is TRUE!!!
 Answer s to all problems in the bible
 Very popular in rural America
 Scopes Monkey Trial
 Illustrates rural-urban divide
 Evolution trial
 William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow
 Nativist oppose immigration
 same arguments as 1880’s
 Fear of communism new
 Quota Laws
 WWI+RedScare strengthen nativists arguments
 No more than 2% of that nationality living in US
 100 italians in 1920
 Only 2 Italians came come in 1921
 1915 KKK is revived in Stone Mountain, GA.
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Continues on hating Blacks
Now hating immigrants, Jews and Catholics
Also fighting law breaking and immorality
4- 5 million members “Invisible Empire”
 Indiana
 David Stephenson
 Controlled politicians
 Goes to jail for assault and murder
 NAACP
 Anti-defamation league
 KKK becomes corrupt
 Withers from impotance
 Temperance movement starts in early 1800’s
 1919 Eighteenth Amendment
 Forbids manufacture, distribution, sale in the USA
 Volstead Act
 Law officially enforcing the Amendment
 Wets
 Against prohibition
 Predict organized crime
 Drys
 Support prohibition
 Predict drop in alcoholism
 Americans break the law
 Bootleggers
 Homemade stills
 Gangsters
 Al Capone
 Expand from alcohol to other crimes
 Organized crime
 How did Americans differ on major social and cultural
issues?
 Many rural Americans were more traditional and
religious, and many urban Americans were more
interested in science and modernity. Rural Americans
often opposed evolution and new roles for women, and
supported Prohibition