POP QUIZ! 1919

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POP QUIZ! 1919

• 1.) Explain why prices of goods increased
• following the war.
• 2.) Why were feelings of nativism on the
• increasing in 1919?
• 3.) What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of?
• 4.) Why is A. Mitchell Palmer historically
• significant?
• 5.) Briefly, why do Americans fear communism?

In complete Sentences
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WARM-UP
1.) How did peoples lives change during the
war? 2.) How do you think surviving a war
would effect the way you thought about
things?
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1920s CLASH IN VALUES
1.) Describe the clash in values in the
1920s - There will people called the
Fundamentalist and people called the
New Morality. They had different
beliefs and values.
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• New Morality
• All about living life and personal freedom.
• Young, energetic, modern.
• Worked and spent money on music, fashion, and
  other entertainment
• Urban (cities is where the action is)

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• Fundamentalists
• Did not like the New Morality thought they were
  out of control and had no morals.
• Very Religious they believed that the Bible was
  100 correct and that god created man.
• Sometimes older generation
• Lived in rural areas (farms/Midwest)

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Yeah! Alcohol is causing all the issues in society
Disagreement 1 How do we restore American
values?
Yeah!
-Prohibition Jan. 16, 1920 18th Amendment -To
enforce the 18th Amendment government passed the
Volstead Act -Police Powers ability to take
control of people and property in the
interest of public safety. - Secret bars
Speakeasies - Increased crime Bootleggers
the Mob (Al Capone)
-By 1933 government passed the 21st
Amendment -Repealed the 18th Am. liquor was
legal again
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Disagreement 2 How should women behave?

• New Morality
• These new independent women are called flappers
• Women should vote, work, dance, drink etc.

• Fundamentalists
• Saw these women as sinful, out of control.
• Womens place is in the home.

1920s popular dance the Charleston
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Disagreement 3 How was man created?
We should discuss all ideas!
OR
-In 1925 Tennessee passed the Butler Act
outlawed teaching evolution or any ideas that
were anti-Bible theories of how man was created
(creationism) -John T. Scopes was hired to go
into a TN school and teach evolution. Purpose
get arrested and get the story into the
media. -Today separation of church and state
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Who would listen to

• The New Morality or the Fundamentalists

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Icons for the New morality
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POP QUIZ GRADE!
In complete Sentences with VOCAB

• 1.) Describe who the New Morality is and
  summarize their post-war beliefs.
• 2.) Same as question 1, but focus on the
  Fundamentalists.
• 3.) Explain the goals of Prohibition. Which
  group supported this belief and why?
• 4.) Explain the Scopes Trial. Which group would
  have supported Scopes and why?
• 5.) How did womens roles change in the 1920s.
  Why did this happen?

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Why would a female athlete be a role model to
young women in the 1920s?
Suzanne Lenglen Tennis player
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Louise Brooks movie star
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For Men? Oxford Bags mens pants
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NOW
THEN
THEN
NOW
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