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strictly prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, including liquors, wines, and beers
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prohibitionists and antiprohibitionists argue about ban
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Protestant preachers in rural areas condemned the modernists and taught that every word in the Bible must be accepted as literally true.
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Economic success was not shared by all, as the top 5 percent of the richest Americans received over 33 percent of all income.
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prosperity of the 1920s never reached farmers,who had suffered from overproduction, high debt, and low prices since the end of World War I. As the depression continued through the 1930s, severe weather and a long drought added to farmers’ difficulties
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Rival groups of gangsters, including a Chicago gang headed by Al Capone,fought for control of the lucrative bootlegging trade. Organized crime became big business
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Revivalists of the 1920s preached a fundamentalist message but did so for the first time making full use of the new instrument of mass communication, the radio.
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Bible must be accepted as literallytrue.
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Countee Cullen
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Langston Hughes
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James Weldon Johnson
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Claude McKay
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took a historical and critical view of certain passages in the Bible and believed they could accept Darwin's theory of evolution without abandoning their religious faith.
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Nativist prejudices of native-born Protestants were aroused because of immigrants coming to american that were catholic and jews
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expressed sharp-divisions in U.S. society between the young and the old
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limited immigration to 3 percent of the number of foreign-born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 Census (a maximum of 357,000).
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set quotas of 2 percent based on the Census of 1890 (before the arrival of most of the “new”immigrants).
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Tennessee was one of several southern states that made it illegal to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution in the public schools.To challenge the constitutionality of such laws, the American Civil Liberties Union persuaded a Tennessee biology teacher, John Scopes, to teach the theory of evolution to his high school class. For doing so, Scopes was duly arrested and brought to trial in 1925.
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Market crash leading to great depression
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The Tariff passed by the Republican Congress set tax increases ranging from31 percent to 49 percent on foreign imports.
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severe drought in the early 1930s ruined crops in the Great Plains
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farms turned to dust, thousands of “Okies”from Oklahoma and surrounding states migrated westward to California insearch of farm or factory work
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conditions became so bad both in Europeand the United States that the Dawes Plan for collecting war debts could nolonger continue
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encouraged farmers to reduce production therefore increasing price
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hired people from poor areas to help on federal building projects
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insuring bank loans for building and repairing houses
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nontenured fair wages and profit for businesses
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provide financing of small homes to prevent foreclose
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allowed gov to look at fiances of banks and reopen
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Alcohol legal
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guaranteed individual bank deposits up to 5k
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employed young men on federal projects
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spent money to get people jobs
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made to regulate stock market
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Gave loans to sharecroppers and those alike
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gave loans to electric corps for power in rural areas
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novelist John Steinbeck wrote about the dust bowl and farm hardships
