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Social Issues
Traditional values versus modernists -struggle between modern values and anti-modern values were noticeable in literature, silent film, and drama of the American culture. - Anit- modernist perferred the past while modernist were all for the present, and future. -more fast paced life - Economic differences =
Scopes Trial - Trial in which John Scopes was charged for teaching evolution in a Tennesse school. -Darrow defended Scopes in this trial -Religion played a big factor, it really had nothing to do with what he was teaching.
New woman versus Victorian values - Victorian women were classy and had high standards while women of the twenty wore short hemlines, with olunging neckilines, and smoke, and swore as though they were men.
Prohibition -Many peole dOnly WASP’s could belong to it KKK — White Anglo-Saxon Protestantsrank in these times -leader of the KKK in the 1920’s was a dentist called Hiram Wesley Evans whose name in the KKK was Imperial Wizard Garveyism -Garveyism"is the term used to describe the body of thought and organizational activities associated with Marcus Mosiah Garvey of Jamaica Race Relations - In this time period blacks were still fighting to be equal
Urbanism versus Suburbanism -Cities became more popular the suburban lifestyles. Great Migration -between 1910 and 1920, the percentage of African Americans living in the South began to fall. By 1930, more than 21.2 percent of African Americans lived outside of the South. Harlem Renaissance - Harlem Renaissance (the New Negro Movement) is the African American life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Though centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance sports, amusement parks, national parks - The American Gilded Age was, in fact, amusement parks' “golden age” that reigned until the late 1920s. - National parks became important
Politics
HARDING AND HOOVER ADMINSTRATION Harding started the era that marked the end of the Progressive era, Coolidge and Hoover followed suit. All three men were Republicans as was the Congress that all three delt with. All three men felt that government should be limited when dealing with business as their actions during their presidency reflected. During their terms business prospered, but ended in the diasterous Depression HARDING SCANDALS most infamous scandal was the Teapot Dome affair, which shook the nation for years after Harding's death. It involved Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, he was convicted of accepting bribes and illegal no-interest personal loans in exchange for the leasing of public oil fields to business associates. (Aside from the bribes and personal loans, the leases were fully legal.) In 1931, Fall became the first member of a Presidential Cabinet to be sent to prison after conviction on charges.[ 19TH AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson-Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, Asian Exclusion Act (43 Statutes-at-Large 153), was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890. It excluded immigration of Asians. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s, as well as prohibiting the immigration of East Asians and Asian Indians RED SCARE In 1919, Wilson appointed a new attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer. In April, the Post Office discovered 38 bombs that hade been mailed to leading American politicians and capitalists. Shortly thereafter, an Italian anarchist was blown up outside Palmer’s residence. The nation’s top law enforcement official became convinced that a radical plot was underway. PALMER RAIDS The Palmer Raids (1919–1920) involved mass arrests and deportation of radicals at the height of the post–World War I era red scare. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer encouraged the raids in the hope that they would advance his presidential ambitions ROLE OF U.S. IN DISARMAMENT CONFERENCES international non-governmental campaign to promote disarmament also developed in the 1920s and early 1930s. A preparatory commission was initiated by the League in 1925; by 1931, there was sufficient support to hold a conference, which duly began under the chairmanship of former British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. The motivation behind the talks can be summed up by an extract from the message President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent to the conference: "If all nations will agree wholly to eliminate from possession and use the weapons which make possible a successful attack, defences automatically will become impregnable and the frontiers and independence of every nation will become secure." LATIN AMERICAN AND AMERICAN RELATIONS The 1920s saw rising tensions as U.S. investors--particularly oil companies--feared expropriation. Mexico owned significant oil resources in which the United States and, to a lesser degree, Britain had invested heavily. Mexico and the United States agreed unofficially on how Mexico would apply oil and agrarian legislation to U.S.-owned property, which eased tensions, but Mexico was asserting its independence in foreign affairs as well as on its own soil. KELLOG- BRIAND ACT signed on August 27, 1928 in Paris at the French Foreign Ministry by the representatives from: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
