Day 123: American Life in the Roaring 20sBaltimore Polytechnic Institute

March 12, 2012A.P. U.S. History

Mr. Green

Objectives: Students will:Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and

normalcy following World War I.Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as

immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade.

Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial.

AP FocusConcerned about the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, the United

States, Britain, and other nations send troops to participate in the Russian Civil War in the hope of toppling Lenin’s communist government. Domestically, a systematic effort to suppress Bolsheviks, or reds, is launched. A political cartoon in The American Pageant (13th ed., p. 721/14th ed., p. 771) makes it abundantly clear that leftists have no place in American life.

Intolerance grows in the nation after World War I. A new and more virulent nativist strain emerges in the reborn Ku Klux Klan, which has expanded its influence across the nation.

To shrink immigration from certain areas of the world, a quota system is put in place. That and the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduce eastern and southern European immigration.

American Life in the Roaring 20s

CHAPTER THEMESA disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism, and the pleasures of prosperity.New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety, as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.

Chapter Focus

Test Friday, March 16, 2012 Chapters 30-32Focus Questions-Chapter 31 due on Tuesday

March 13

Announcements

Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding of OH and Calvin Coolidge of MA

Democrats nominate James M. Cox of OH and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Asst Secretary of the Navy

Harding-work for a vague league, not the League, a return to normalcy

Cox-supported the League404-127 electoral count16,143,407 to 9,130,328Eugene V. Debs-919,799 as a Socialist in jail

The “Solemn Referendum” of 1920

U.S. never joins the League of NationsU.S. senate spurned Security Treaty with

FranceFrance rearmed as well as Germany, illegally

Will lead to a second international disaster

The Betrayal of Great Expectation

Nativism and IntoleranceBolshevik Revolution of 1917Red scare of 1919-1920

A. Mitchell PalmerDecember 1919-249 radicals deportedSeptember 1920-Wall Street bomb

Criminal syndicalism lawsunlawful to advocate violence to secure social change

Negatively impacted unionism and the closed shop as elements of Russia

Businesses supported the American planSacco and Venzetti

Chapter 31-Roaring 20’s

The new KKKanti-everythingthrived in the Midwest/South-Bible Beltsurvived because of the social changes in the 20’s

Nativism800,000 immigrants in 1920-21Emergency Quota Act of 1921

3% of nationality in U.S. in 1910Immigration Act of 1924-3% to 2% of 1890

Freeze existing racial composition-Northern Europe

cut out Japan, exempted Canada/Latin America

Separated ethnic enclavesDifficult to unionizeOwn churchesIncreased ethnic rivalries

Impacts of Immigration Restriction

Increases in crimeSpeakeasiesOrganized crimeLindbergh baby

Prohibition

Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925John T. ScopesClarence DarrowWilliam Jennings Bryan

Challenged the literal interpretation of the Bible

Fundamentalism v. Darwin

Read Chapter 31Prepare for 5 question quiz on Tuesday

Homework