Clash of Cultures: The 1920s and 1930s
LOG ON TO: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm
Step 1: Click on “Introduction,” read and answer the following questions:
1. What are three examples of “old” and “new” cultures compared and contrasted in the chart?
2. What was another name for “prohibition?”
3. “While the KKK purported to represent "old-fashioned values," it unabashedly adopted the new
methodologies of the industrial economy. Although the Klan continued to target African Americans, it
focused much of its attention on” whom?
Step 2: GO TO Prohibition
4. According to the political cartoon, what were the “two sides of the question” of the “noble experiment” that
was prohibition?
5. How long did the period of prohibition last (look on page 6)?
6. What was forbidden under the 18th Amendment?
Step 3: CLICK ON the “more success than expected…” link, which is found on page 1 of the prohibition
section
7. How do contemporary historians like John C. Burnham, Norman Clark and David Kyvig see the prohibition
experiment today?
CLICK ON the “nineteenth century” link, which is found on page 1 of the prohibition section
8. What were some of the temperance organizations that sprang up in the nineteenth century in support of
prohibition?
GO TO: Immigration Restriction & The Ku Klux Klan
9. How many immigrants fueled labor needs in the U.S. between 1870 and 1915?
CLICK ON “Immigration Restriction” link/photo:
10. Specifically, what types of “undesirables” (not nations) did nativist groups and the federal government
target with legislation such as the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” and the Chinese Exclusion Act?
GO TO: Page 2 of “Immigration Restriction”
11. According to the political cartoon, what percentage of European (specifically eastern and southern) did the
Uncle Sam allow through the funnel?
12. What events after WWI intensified “anti-immigrant” sentiment?
CLICK ON “trial of Sacco and Vanzetti” link:
13. How many accomplices did Sacco and Vanzetti have?
14. What was the name of the factory that they robbed?
15. In addition to their ancestry (Italian) what was their political persuasion and why would they be seen as a
threat?
16. Who was trying to round up these “undesirables” in their alleged association with a series of bombings?
What were these “raids” called?
17. Which two geographic regions of Europe were specifically targeted with this new legislation?
CLICK ON “Immigration Act of 1924”:
18. According to the cart, what three nations were allowed the largest number if immigrants to enter the U.S.?
GO TO: The Ku Klux Klan
19. What “cultural changes” were nativist groups like the KKK responding to?
20. Who was the KKK trying to “enlist” during this period?
21. What was this “second era” of the “fraternal order” most concerned with?
GO TO: Page 2 of “The Ku Klux Klan”:
22. What was a major concern for Klansmen in the North?
23. What was the KKK’s concern with Catholics?
24. What was the estimated Klan enrollment during the 1920s?
GO TO: “Opposition”:
25. What were writers of the time calling for a return to?
26. Specifically which groups opposed this image of the “new woman”?
27. What organization attempted to “minimize the temptations of modern city life”?
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