10:3 A Clash of Values

• Re-emergence of old problems– Nativism– Ku Klux Klan• First formed after Civil War• Re-formed in 1915

– William Simmons, Protestant preacher

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• Controlling Immigration– Emergency Quota Act (1921)• Restricted annual immigration• 3% of any ethnic group already in the U.S.• Ethnic identity and national origin determined

admission

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• National Origins Act (1924)– Quota set at 2% of ethnicity already in U.S.– Based on 1890 census• Before heavy wave of immigration from E and S Europe

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• Women in the 1920s– Gained right to vote– Automobile created an escape from home– “Flappers”– “Bob” hairstyle

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• Women's Contribution– Florence Sabin• Research led to decline of tuberculosis death rate

– Willa Cather• Pulitzer Prize for fiction

– Margaret Sanger• American Birth Control League

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• Fundamentalism– Involved Protestant Christians (not all)– Some Americans saw an America in serious moral

decline– Believe the Bible is literally true – “Creationism” – belief that God created the world

exactly as Bible says

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• The Scopes Trial– Tennessee, 1925– Outlawed teaching Evolution– John T. Scopes, biology teacher – William Jennings Bryan – rep for Creationists – Clarence Darrow – rep for Evolutionists

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• Prohibition– Volstead Act : U.S. Treasury Dept responsible for

enforcing Prohibition– Speakeasies• Illegal bars