Honors American Cultures
Names ____________________________
Mr. Berardelli
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1920s: Resistance to Modernity
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I.
Topic: Prohibition
A) Key Terms: Identify & explain the following terms as they relate to the Prohibition Era.
1) 18th Amendment - __________________________________________________
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2) Volstead Act - _____________________________________________________
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3) Bootlegging - ______________________________________________________
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4) Speakeasy - _______________________________________________________
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5) Al ‘Scarface” Capone - ______________________________________________
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B) Quote Interpretation
Comment by Reverend Billy Sunday...
“The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons
into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now,
women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent”
6) According to reverend Billy Sunday what social problems will be resolved as a result
of Prohibition? ______________________________________________________
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C) Cartoon Interpretation
What message is the cartoon trying to convey?
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Honors American Cultures
Names ____________________________
Mr. Berardelli
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1920s: Resistance to Modernity
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II. Topic: Immigration Restriction:
A)
Key Terms: Identify & explain the following terms as they relate to immigration restriction.
1) New Immigrants – _______________________________________________________
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2) Madison Grant – ________________________________________________________
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3) 100%Americanism – ______________________________________________________
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4) 1921 Immigration Act – ____________________________________________________
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5) Johnson Reed Immigration Act ( 1924 Immigration Act) - _________________________
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B)
Quote Interpretation:
Comment by Congressman Albert Johnson...
“our capacity to maintain our cherished institutions stands diluted by a stream of
alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the
governing power to the governed... The day of unalloyed welcome to all peoples, the
day of indiscriminate acceptance of all races, has definitely ended.”
6) Paraphrase the above quote and restate the message and meaning of the quote.
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C)
Cartoon Interpretation
7) What message is the cartoon trying to convey?
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What message is the above cartoon trying to convey? ________________________________
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Honors American Cultures
Names ____________________________
Mr. Berardelli
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1920s: Resistance to Modernity
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III.
Topic: The Ku Klux Klan
A) Key Terms: Identify & explain the following terms as they relate to the KKK.
1) Birth of A Nation - __________________________________________________
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2) “100% Americanism” - _______________________________________________
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B) Venn Diagram: The Old Klu Klux Klan
3)
vs.
New (1920s) Klu Klux Klan...
C)
Cartoon Interpretation:
4) What message is the cartoon trying to convey?
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Honors American Cultures
Names ____________________________
Mr. Berardelli
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1920s: Resistance to Modernity
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IV.
Topic: Religious Fundamentalism
A) Key Terms: Identify & explain the following terms as they relate to fundamentalism.
1) Fundamentalism– ______________________________________________________
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2) Charles Darwin – ______________________________________________________
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3) John Scopes – ________________________________________________________
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4) Clarence Darrow – _____________________________________________________
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5) Wm. Jennings Bryan - __________________________________________________
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C) Quote Interpretation
H. L. Mencken was a reporter covering the Scopes trial in the summer of 1925.
Menken made the following comment in the final article he filed covering the
trial...
“Let no one mistake [the trial] for comedy, farcical thought it may be in all its details. It serves
notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the
land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience. Tennessee, challenging him
too timorously and too late, now sees its courts converted into camp meetings and its Bill of
Rights made a mock of by sworn officers of the law. There are other states that had better
look to their arsenals before the Hun is at their gates.”
6) Paraphrase the above quote and restate the message and meaning of the quote.
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Cartoon Interpretation:
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Honors American Cultures
Names ____________________________
Mr. Berardelli
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1920s: Resistance to Modernity
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V.
Topic: The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
"If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to
scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This
is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance,
for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words--our lives--our
pains--nothing! The taking of our lives--lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler--all!
That last moment belongs to us--that agony is our triumph." ...[Statement attributed to
Bartolomeo Vanzetti by Philip D. Stong, a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance
who visited Vanzetti in prison in May of 1927 shortly before he and Sacco were executed.]
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