Goal 9.04: Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender.

  1. Changing Roles for Minorities
  2. ______
  3. Pseudo-science that taught that the “unfit” or inferior should not be allowed to have children, since they would pass on their undesirable genetic traits
  4. This belief was used to support racism, nativism, and to discriminate against the mentally handicapped
  5. Return of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  6. The Ku Klux Klan was revived in 1915, this time with the purpose of protecting American “purity” from not only blacks, but also ______
  7. This new Klan started an organized membership drive, leading to as many as 15 million members joining in the 1920s
  8. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  9. Began to flex its political power during the 1920s by pushing for anti-lynching laws
  10. In 1930, organized a successful campaign to keep racist judge John J. Parker from being appointed to the Supreme Court
  11. Marcus ______(1887 – 1940)
  12. Endorsed “Negro Nationalism” or taking deep pride in black culture
  13. Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), whose purpose was to promote black pride and unity, as well as education for blacks
  14. Also supported his “Back to Africa” movement, a call for blacks to leave America (and its white government) and return to Africa, the only place they could find true justice and freedom
  15. Failed to win widespread support, especially after being sent to prison and then deported for mail fraud
  16. The Great Migration
  17. Between 1910 and 1930, about 2 million blacks left the South in an effort to escape racism and to find good industrial jobs in Northern and Midwestern cities
  18. This migration continued into the 1970s, but has since reversed – today, many blacks are leaving the North and moving south
  19. ______Act of 1921
  20. Restricted immigration to 3% per year of the total number of people within that ethnic group living in the US in 1910 (for example, if 100 Koreans were living in the US, then only 3 more Koreans per year would be allowed into the country)
  21. Designed to limit immigration from Southern & Eastern Europe (since these groups had only begun immigrating recently, they had small numbers); these were the areas where ______and ______were the strongest
  22. ______Act of 1924
  23. Placed permanent restrictions on immigration
  24. Lowered quota to 2% per year and changed base year from 1910 to 1890
  25. In 1929, immigration was capped at 150,000 total people per year
  26. Hispanic Immigration
  27. Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Act led to a major drop in available labor in the US
  28. Hispanics took advantage of the fact that they were excluded from the quotas set by both acts, and over 600,000 moved to the US to fill the labor gap
  29. Changing Roles for Women
  30. ______Amendment (1920)
  31. Finally granted women suffrage (the right to vote) in federal elections
  32. Suffrage had been sought by women since the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848!
  33. Women in the Workforce
  34. Thousands of women began to enter the workforce during the 1920s, primarily in low-wage, low-skill jobs such as secretarial work, and as sales clerks and telephone operators
  35. Most of these workers were single women seeking financial independence from their restrictive parents
  36. ______
  37. Many young women rebelled against the mores of their parents by wearing shorter skirts, shorter hairstyles, smoking, drinking, dancing, and dating without “adult” chaperones
  38. Margaret ______(1879 – 1966)
  39. Nurse
  40. Believed that large families led to poverty and to fewer opportunities for women
  41. Began to promote use of birth control, especially amongst the poor and minorities
  42. Opened her own chain of birth control clinics, mostly in poor ghettos
  43. Founded ______in 1921
  44. Promoted education about, and access to, harmless means of birth control
  45. Also promoted sterilization of the mentally insane and mentally retarded (eugenics)
  46. Merged with other birth control advocacy groups in 1942 form Planned Parenthood
  47. Religious Fundamentalism
  48. ______
  49. Marriage began to be redefined among the younger generation – they began to believe that a successful marriage required romance, friendship, and sexual compatibility rather than just a sense of duty to one’s family
  50. Young people also began to focus on having fun, something that became more available to them with the increased mobility offered by ______
  51. Revival of Fundamentalism
  52. The relaxed morality and growing materialism of the US during the 1920s led many people, especially the older and more rural population, to embrace a new wave of religious fundamentalism
  53. Fundamentalists placed much of the blame on immigration, alcohol, science, and new technologies for America’s slide into immorality
  54. Billy ______(1862 – 1935)
  55. Former Major League baseball player who left sports to become a wildly popular revivalist minister, preaching to over 1 million people during his career
  56. One of the driving forces behind Prohibition, he also opposed unrestricted immigration and the teaching of evolution in schools
  57. Aimee Semple ______(1890 – 1944)
  58. Revivalist minister who sometimes engaged in faith healing and speaking in tongues, she operated her own 5000 seat church in LA and broadcast her sermons over the radio
  59. Lifelong opponent of the teaching of evolution
  60. Complicated personal life included several marriages, a faked kidnapping publicity stunt, and death by accidental overdose of sedatives
  61. Evolution on Trial
  62. Tennessee’s ______Act of 1925
  63. The state of Tennessee banned all schools, including universities, from teaching human evolution and required the teaching of creationism
  64. Punishment for breaking the law was a fine of $100 - $500 per offense
  65. The ACLU
  66. The American Civil Liberties Union had been founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
  67. In 1925, the ACLU sought out a teacher who would be willing to intentionally violate the Butler Act in order to test the constitutionality of the Act
  68. John ______(1900 – 1970)
  69. Tennessee high school teacher who agreed to be the ACLU’s test case
  70. Used the state-approved biology textbook (which contained a chapter on evolution) to teach the subject, thereby breaking the law and triggering the Scopes Monkey Trial
  71. Encouraged his own students to testify against him!
  72. Scopes Monkey Trial (July 1925)
  73. Case drew high-profile coverage from all over the world
  74. Defense would argue both that evolution was not necessarily in conflict with creationism and that the law was unconstitutional on the grounds that it was designed to benefit the beliefs of a specific religious group
  75. William Jennings ______(1860 – 1925)
  76. 3-time candidate for president and former Secretary of State
  77. Served as a special prosecutor for the state during the Scopes trial and even testified as an “expert witness” (his testimony was largely damaging to his own case and was struck from the record)
  78. Died 5 days after the trial ended
  79. Clarence ______(1857 – 1938)
  80. Celebrity criminal lawyer, fresh off a nationally covered murder case in Chicago where he had saved the lives of his teenage clients
  81. Brought in as a “hired gun” by the ACLU both for his skill as a lawyer and for the publicity his reputation would bring
  82. The Decision
  83. Scopes was found ______by a jury and fined $100 by the judge
  84. On appeal, his conviction was overturned on a technicality, but the constitutionality of the Butler Act was upheld (it was repealed in 1967 and laws like it were declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 1968)