cultural conflicts in 20s
- Created by: shannonboulton
- Created on: 07-05-19 12:45
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- cultural conflicts
- politics defined by perception that there is growing economy
- flowering culture of jazz ages suggests development of a mode modern culture
- US comes out of war looking to return to normalcy and to excessive regulation of business
- also looking for ways to close off troubles that were seen to draw US into WWI in first place
- Sacco & Vanzetti case; War and red scare left fear of radicalism and fear of many things foreign
- two immigrants convicted 1921 of murdering a guard in a robbery/ evidence against them thin but their Italian origins and anarchist political beliefs see them convicted and they're described as anarchist bastards by judge and executed 1927
- highlighted division in society and nativist society and backlash from white anglo-saxon majority in US against immigrants
- two immigrants convicted 1921 of murdering a guard in a robbery/ evidence against them thin but their Italian origins and anarchist political beliefs see them convicted and they're described as anarchist bastards by judge and executed 1927
- Sacco & Vanzetti case; War and red scare left fear of radicalism and fear of many things foreign
- also looking for ways to close off troubles that were seen to draw US into WWI in first place
- immigration
- immigration act 1924 set imigration limits about 165,000 Americans a year, less than 1/5 of pre-war levels
- national quotas of numbers who could come in, no more than 2% of each nationality who were in US in 1890..
- US gov wanted to wind back clock, favourable to white wesern/northern europeans than southern/eastern
- reaction= America has changed rapidly and they felt they needed to put breaks on rapidly + re-assess image of modern America
- Ku Klux Klan= 1923 has 5M members, represents nativist movement. concerned with white supremecy in south, but Jewish and cahtolic immigrants in north
- fear spread of influence the non-white anglo saxon protestants are having on US
- in West, main agenda is prohibition of alcohol, concerned of people abusing themselves with drink.
- immigration act 1924 set imigration limits about 165,000 Americans a year, less than 1/5 of pre-war levels
- prohibition
- moral purity, came out of progressive era mostly but ban on manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages
- drop in liquor consumption alongside alcohol related arrests
- mid 20s+ smuggling becomes increasingly common, home brewing, corruption, crimiinal gangs take advantage to expand their interests
- failure by the end, and Roosevelt brings beer
- religion
- religious fundaentalism= offers certainty in a rapidly changing world, mini religious revival in 20s
- State of Tennassy forbid teaching darwinson, rejected idea that man evolved
- case at court about a teacher who had taught evolution
- women
- new morality regarding women, league of women voters
- get sexual freedom, new common image, short skirts, bobbed hair, sex talked baout more because growing openism (Fraud's attitudes who blames human bheaviour on sex)
- modern science, Eisntein, cities see expansion of more liberated attitudes that challenge existing ideas
- AA's
- flow of poetry, music, social integration
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