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Objective 4.5- Society in the 1920's

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penguin dance the 1920s were a decade dramatic social step forever revolutionized modern American society it is impossible to emphasize enough the effects that social change of the 1920s had on the modern wreck in society we know today the Red Scare the nativist Revival prohibition and Christian fundamentalism social changes in movements have helped to define the society that you live in today and by the end of this lesson you should see how World War 1 cause Americans to favorite chelation ISM and Native Americans want to stay out of all the fairs and quite frankly they distrusted all foreigners do the upheaval and Chaos in post-war Europe including the Bolshevik Revolution in Rush many Americans worried that communism would spread the United States and overthrow the government after a u.s. Communist Party forms many people again depending that a communist or an R plot my take out the United States when Anarchist in the United States mail bombs didn't Port officials doorsteps the government begin to act rude out suspected threats at home attorney general A Mitchell Palmer went after the threat his response is called the Palmer Raids bummer on the federal authorities hunted suspected Communists and anarchists thousands were arrested shut the weed out this threat these raids violate of people's legal rights and the authorities failed to find evidence to support their claims the perceived threat of Communism will be a common theme that we all study through this Century the history of the Crusades rude are communists and anarchists the United States trampled on people's legal rights this could be seen in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial that said he were two Italian immigrants and suspected Anarchist they were charged with murder without real evidence supposedly the two men had robbed somebody at gunpoint and shot the victim both of them are convicted of the crimes and executed however some people say they were tried and executed only because they were suspected anarchists following World War 1 the nativist movement birds in America America's became sick of Europe and saw immigrants as a threat to the workforce and in society because of this the American government instituted the quota system like turn the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 this put limits on the number of immigrants from certain undesirable countries this America for Americans attitude also led to Resurgence of the Klux Klan KKK membership exploded in the 1920s it begin to push the nativist agenda and intimidated immigrants through violence typically the targets of KKK African Americans particular in the South now they expanded their hate agenda to European immigrants first generation immigrants were targeted because they took jobs at lower wages and the KKK perceive this to be a threat to the white American Workforce who Klux Klan membership exploded to such a level that they openly paraded down the streets of Washington DC in the road listen hoods do you remember the temperance movement  some reformers thought morality not well would improve lies living morally what up with the poor and give them a purpose and a drive many reformers called for temperance Temperance is the prohibition of alcohol temperance movement scored a huge success in the 1920s with Prohibition in 1920 the 18th Amendment is enacted and alcohol is illegal the law banned the manufacture sale and transport of alcohol but did not ban the consumption of alcohol the prohibition of alcohol was hugely unpopular with the people to help enforce the law The Volstead Act was passed good at prohibition Bureau which conducted raids in order to address people breaking the law the prohibition Bureau was underfunded and undermanned so the law was difficult to enforce Americans wanted a and probation was easy to get around Americans escaped into speakeasies speakeasies were secret underground bars where a password code was needed upon entry one since you can enjoy a drink hot music and good times with good friends when Americans couldn't find their liquor they distilled their own or bought it from Smugglers this was called play kitten got its term from the fact that women would be used to carry liquor underneath their clothes by tiny liquor bottles to the legs or hide it in their boots is downsizing probation is development of organized crime in America also known as the mob every major American city had a network of criminal groups because of prohibition lot of money to be made in selling liquor illegally my boss is like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano often resorted to violence or murder in order to keep control of the market in their cities Capone was the most notorious mob boss in American history his nickname was Scarface and he was known for his brutality Capone ruthlessly annihilated his competition in game call the City by paint off cops and other law enforcement eventually his reign of terror will come to an end when Capone is arrested for tax evasion and changes in the 1920s some people Rihanna become uncomfortable but the way that America was heading Christian fundamentalist resisted modern change and science this Christian fundamentalism emerged in the 1920s the movement believe in strict interpretation of the Bible one of the biggest targets of the movement was Darwin's theory of evolution this is the theory that man evolved from apes they deny the theory and said it was Blasphemous because the Bible states that God created man the struggle between small-town Christian morals of a Christian fundamentalist movement and modern science and development came to a head during the Scopes trial in 1925 the state of Tennessee made it illegal for educators to teach evolution in the classroom John T Scopes a high school biology teacher is charged with violating this law by teaching evolution to a the trail becomes a circus and media attention to sends on small Tennessee Town Scopes games the representation of the American civil liberties Union and its lawyer Clarence former presidential candidate in Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan is the prosecutor in the case the case itself becomes a symbol of the clash between the modern and traditional and the in the end script was convicted and fined but not sent to jail for Better or For Worse all the social changes of the 1920s take America in a different direction it is one of the Decades that come to the find the 20th century in America we see a bit of the social struggles from the 1920s in our society today 90 years we're still fighting the same fights that we fought in the Roaring Twenties the arguments are the same but the subject matter is different in the twenties it was American Communists today it's American Muslims in the twenties it was Evolution today its global warming and stem cell research in the twenties it was alcohol today its medicinal marijuana today like in the twenties American society continues to strive for answers to these debates

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