HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 19Outline of Last Lecture I. Roaring 20’sII. Red ScareIII. ProhibitionIV. Radical ViolenceV. Pan-Africanism Outline of Current Lecture II. Ku Klux KlanIII. ImmigrationIV. ReligionV. Scopes Monkey TrialVI. PoliticsCurrent LectureKu Klux Klan -terrorist organization; clan remained after the government suppressed the org-their goal was to make sure blacks didn’t their civil rights-a new version was created of the org; they were anti-everything-they were against Catholics, Jews, immigrants, etc..; they would only accept Anglo-Saxon protestants -two key points: first, the emergence of the film, Birth of a Nation-portrays the blacks raging and acting out of control which brings in the KKK looking as if they “saved the day”, secondly, if a member of the org brought in new members the person who brought in the new members would benefit from it by earning money-they wanted to promote the organization -David Stephenson: a leader of the Klan, he contributed by selling the uniforms, hisprimary location was in Indiana (most centric place of the Klan), in 1925 he becomes attracted to a librarian, he orders men to capture her, put her ona train which is where David rapes her throughout the train ride, he is put on trial, he defends himself by saying he will disclose all of the informationhe has on the government, so the government ended up not punishing him because of the valuable info. he knowsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Immigration -Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti robbed a shoe store factory payroll and killed the paymaster; two weeks later the police arrested them; they had great alibis but because America wasn’t acceptance toward immigrants at all they were still convicted of murder and sentenced to death; they demonstrated the divisive power of the growing strength of nativist prejudice-Immigration Act of 1924- United States federal law that limited the annual 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; this mostly affected southern Europeans and RussiansReligion-Fundamentalism- Americans believed there was no conflict between science and religion, science reinforced religion-Darwin published a book that started a big controversy which explained the theory of evolution-Protestants split: modernists-religions has to change to accommodate science; began to see the creation story in the bible as a metaphor; fundamentalists- rejected what modernists believed; they believed the age of miracles wasn’t over-religion became a huge battlegroundScopes Monkey Trial- high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held-Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality -William Jennings Bryan argued for the prosecution while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney spoke for Scopes-The trial publicized the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy, which set Modernists, who said evolution was not inconsistent with religion against Fundamentalists, who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge-The case was thus seen as both a theological contest and a trial on whether modern science regarding the creation-evolution controversy should be taught in schoolsPolitics-Democratic Convention of 1924- held at Madison Square Garden; one party was the white conservative Southerners and the opposing party was the city ethnics (immigrants), they had to agree on a candidate but because both parties disagreed over everything, finding a candidate was impossible for them; they were discussing whether or not to condemn the KKK, the vote came to a split vote, so they did not condemn the org.; it demonstrated how divided the Democrats were; Al Smith was an Irish Catholic, William McAdoo was a southern white-John Davis ran against Coolidge for Presidency; Coolidge won which makes the government become Republican-this led to the Great Depression, in which the Republicans were blamed