1920s America• Who are true Americans?

• Was it god that created man, or does man come from monkeys ?

• Does the government have the right to tell us how to live our lives?

• DO WE LIVE WITH TRADITION OR CHANGE WITH THE TIMES?

A Society in Conflict• Anti-immigrant

– National Origins Act– Discrimination– Emergency Quota Act

(10)3 % ethnic in cities

(3)WW1 vets losing jobs

Sacco-Vanzetti Trial– Italian immigrants– Unfair trial

Sacco and Vanzetti • These two men were named Nicola Sacco and

Bartolomeo Vanzetti.• (4)They were accused of killing two men at the

Slater & Morrill Shoe Company.• They were also accused of stealing $15,000

from the payroll vault.• Sacco was a shoemaker.• Vanzetti was a fish peddler.• Nativism ruled with (2)trying to keep land from

immigrants

The Infamous – Sacco and Vanzetti

• Two Italian immigrants who were tried(1921) and executed(1927) for the murder of a paymaster and a security guard.

• Many people believed they were innocent, convicted because they were foreign and anarchists.

• "Never in our full lives could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of men as now we do by accident... That last moment belongs to us. That agony is our triumph." -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti part 2

• Many Americans believed them to be anarchists.

- (5)No government should exist• (6)In 1921 they were found guilty. They

appealed the case for 6 years then on August 23rd 1927, they were both executed.

• Throughout the entire process, both men claimed innocence of the crime.

• *Anarchists- People who oppose all forms of government.

Return of the (7)Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• The “old Klan” focused on newly freed African Americans.

• (8)The new Klan was going to focus more on Catholics, Jews, and Immigrants.

• (9)William J. Simmons revised the KKK in Atlanta.

• Membership reached 4 million people by 1924.

The Ku Klux Klan Great increase

In powerAnti-black

Anti-immigrant

Anti-women’s suffrage

Anti-bootleggers

Anti-Semitic

Anti-Catholic

Women of the 1920’s• Remember women got the right to vote in 1920. This prompted

change in society.• Many women wore “bobbed” hair styles. This just means

(14)shortened and put up• Flappers were young women who smoked, drank, danced, and

wore short dresses.• Other women sought work in factories to supplement family

income.• Sigmund Freud changes society with believing that your

(12)sexuality defines who you are and how you behave

• 1920's also brought about great changes for women...

• 1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote

• after 1920, social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home

• (16)Margaret Sanger & birth control

• and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions

• women didn't want to sacrifice wartime gains - amounted to a social revolt

• characterized by the FLAPPER/ "new woman"– (15)bobbed hair, short

dresses, partied, smoked in public...)

•People now had(13)Cars to escape their Parents and home as wee

The Scopes Trial• In 1925 Tennessee passed the Butler Act. This made teaching monkey

evolution illegal.• (17)Fundamentalism- bible is word for word fact• (18)Evolution- scientific idea of humans evolving from cells• (19)Creationism- world was created as it says in the BIBLE• John T. Scopes was a (20)biology teacher in Dayton TN.• He was arrested for teaching evolution to his high school students.• The trial was held in Dayton TN during the summer of 1925.• William Jennings Bryan was the prosecuting attorney.• Clarence Darrow was the defending attorney.• (21)Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.

• 2B 23THE SCOPES TRIAL Here, from July 10 to 21, 1925 JohnThomas Scopes, a County High Schoolteacher, was tried for teaching thata man descended from a lower orderof animals in violation of a latelypassed state law. William JenningsBryan assisted the prosecution;Clarence Darrow, Arthur GarfieldHays, and Dudley Field Malone thedefense. Scopes was convicted.

Scopes “Monkey” TrialEvolution vs. Creationism

Dayton, TennesseeFamous Lawyers

Science vs. Religion

John ScopesHigh School Biology teacher

The Scopes Jury

Coach Bowman’s Great Grandfather

• PROHIBITION - on manuf. and sale of alcohol

• adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT

• an outgrowth of the longtime temperance movement

• in WWI, temperance became a patriotic mvmt. – (22)drunkenness caused low productivity & inefficiency, and alcohol needed to treat the wounded

• a difficult law to enforce... organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers were on the rise

• Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period - capitalism at its zenith…

• Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w/ the 21st Amendment

• forced organized crime to pursue other interests…

Prohibition

• The 18th Amendment took effect January 29th 1920.

• This new Amendment made the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol illegal.

• Many American believed this was going to help reduce unemployment, violence, poverty, and crime.

• (23)Secret bars called speakeasies were places people could purchase a drink.

Prohibition part 2

• Bootlegging became big business. This is the production and distribution of liquor.

• The mafia began opening bars and running bootlegging.

• Al Capone was a gangster who made millions from prohibition in Chicago.

• Capone had policemen, judges, and politicians on his payroll to help his business.

• The 21st Amendment in 1933 repealed the 18th Amendment.

Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act

Gangsters

Al Capone

RESULTS from prohibition

CH 10 SEC 3- TECH TIME-1- Roaring 20s 20- Teacher of Evolution in Dayton,TN

2- Native Land protected from immigrants 21- Found guilty and fined 100 dollars

3- WW1 Vets 22- religion,unemployment,violence

4- 2 men robbed & murdered in Mass. Show factory 23- secret bars to buy alcohol

5- People who oppose all governments 24- organized crime & speakeasies

6- Sentenced to death & killed after appeals

7- Ku Klux Klan

8- Catholic,Jews,immigrants,New Americans

9- Founded new KKK

10-3 %if ethnics allowed in City

11- 700,000

12- human sexuality

13- Cars

14- Hair put up

15- smoked, drank, wore make up, danced

16- Margaret sanger

17- religious movement saying bible is word for word fact

18- scientific belief that humans evolved from cells

19- God created the world as in the BIBLE