Who s America U S in 1920s 03 11 2014 Introduction Conflicted Age Sister Amee Semple McPherson o Use of radio and show biz props marks the consumerism of the 1920s and emergence of mass media o Fundamentalist Agreed with concerns of drift of American society to 1920s more people live in urban communities than not More racial and ethnic mixing especially in cities like NYC harlem I Embracing Modernity a Examples fully written in PP i Advertisement and PROPIGANDA of gov GROWING SECULARISM o EMERGENCE OF NEW WOMEN o CONSUMER ORIENTED ECONOMY o RACIAL MIXING o NEW MASS CULTURE INDUSTRY ii Extension credit iii Record industry and radio iv Automobile mass production 1 Model T 2 house of prostitution on wheel b Reasons i prosperity II Backlash cultural wars A Secularism vs Religious Fundamentalism o Fundamentalists 3 billion copies of this booklet that preached the bible o Darwinism threatens or challenges fundamentalism o TN makes it illegal to teach Biology ACLU freedom of speech John Scopes teaches Biology Scopes Trial Extremely popular in attendance First trail ever radio broadcasted William Jennings Bryan prosecutes Scopes Clarence Daryll defends John Scopes Daryll cross examines Bryan and gets him to admit that there is a chance the earth may not have been made in 6 days and 5 nights B The Tribal Twenties anti immigrant and racist thinking o 1 Immigrants and the Red Scare 1919 anti communist panic about Bolshevism in US sparked by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia fear that immigrants of eastern Europe would bring bolshevism to the US o 2 The KKK hatred of Blacks general ethnic hatred of others Fundamentalist Protestantism Founded in south 1915 and reflected the age Aimed at Catholics Jews immoral or too loose women Indianapolis HQ an spread to Oregon California and even here in Binghamton Sense of order security and status Set family and religious values Capitalism Clan was undone in 1925 by a series of scandals murders and such American elites even support ideas o 3 Scientific Racism and the Eugenics movement racial prejudice thinking was big in the US in 1920s because of WWI Eugenics you can bread better people Widely supported by scholars even Madison Grant o 4 Immigrant Restrictions Immigrants Act of 1924 Quotas set at 2 of what had been coming into the country in 1890 and basically cut off E Europe imm Sets up for laws of 1960s this law did not apply to Latin America Eugenics you can bread better people Widely supported by scholars even III Cultureal Convergence A Acculturation and Americanization Mass Consumption Mass Media A common Culture 03 11 2014 03 11 2014