7.8 Cultural and Political Controversies 1898-1945 Flashcards
What were some examples of jobs that opened up to women in the urban areas during the 1920s?
Nursing and Teaching
What was the name for women that protested modern society norms by cutting their hair short and showing their ankles?
Flappers
What were Flappers a symbol of?
Women’s Liberation
What is Nativism?
The effort to protect the rights of native-born citizens against the interests of immigrants
What were nativists’ fears in the 1920s?
- Workers feared they’d lose their jobs
- Pollution of the white race
What were some examples of legislation that arose out of increased nativism in the 1920s?
- Emergency Quota Act of 1921
- National Origins Act of 1924
What was major example of internal migration during the 1920s?
The Great Migration
What was the Great Migration?
Many southern blacks left the south to settle in the north and midwest
What was a cultural effect of the Great Migration?
The Harlem Renaissance
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The revival of the arts and intellectual pursuits of the recently migrated black population
What were some examples of major figures and their professions during the Harlem Renaissance?
- Birth of Jazz under Louis Armstrong
- Writers such as Langston Hughes
What were some writers known as the Lost Generation?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What were the main themes of the Lost Generation?
The pervasive materialism that plagued American culture and the waste and loss of people in WW1
What did Urban Protestants consider themselves?
Modernists
What were modernists?
Protestants who believed their faith was large enough to embrace the changing culture in terms of gender roles and Darwin’s theory of origins
What was an example of a growing cultural difference during the 1910s and 1920s?
Urban and rural Protestants
AKA Modernists and Fundamentalists
Who were Fundamentalists?
Rural Christians who condemned the degradation of morals they saw in the cities
What was a paradise for the clash between modernists and fundamentalists?
(Evidence of the divide)
The Scopes Monkey Trial
What was the context of the Scopes Monkey Trial
A Tennessee teacher taught about Darwinism despite it being illegal under state law and was arrested for it
What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Fundamentalism looked weak and modernism appeared to have triumphed
