Is Progress the Opposite of Congress?: Progressivism and the Roaring

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Is Progress the Opposite of Congress?
Progressivism and the Roaring 20s

• Honors U.S. History

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The Basics of Progressivism

• Who Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow
  Wilson
• When Early 1900s
• Why Capitalism was out of control
• Reforms are needed at the middle class level
• Should women be allowed to vote?
• Is alcohol the root of all evil?
• Is there more to science than God did it?
• Are you ok with what is in your hot dogs?
• Should you blindly trust politicians

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Nativism

• Nativism Opposition to immigration and
  basically anyone non-Protestant
• Some Americans did not like the amount of foreign
  languages spoken
• Some were still feeling the effects of WWI, a
  European conflict
• Immigrants were associated with drunkenness and
  anarchy
• Immigrants would take jobs from Americans
• Ku Klux Klan are re-born

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The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists
• Accused of murder in 1920
• Evidence was circumstantial and not necessarily
  enough for conviction
• Judge was hostile, American feelings were
  anti-immigrant, both were found guilty and
  executed

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Prohibition

• 18th Amendment (1919) A ban on the manufacture,
  sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages
• Works with the Temperance and the Nativist
  movements
• Ending alcohol seen as equal to bringing
  democracy to the world
• Alcohol-related crime goes up, eventually leads
  to the 21st Amendment (1933)

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Scopes Trial

• John Scopes Teacher in Tennessee who taught
  evolution
• Major trial that saw fundamentalist literal
  Christians against modern science
• Scopes loses the trial but evolution gains
  acceptance

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