Cultural Conflicts

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Cultural Conflicts

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Prohibition

• Three Goals
• Eliminate drunkenness and abuse
• Eliminate saloons (vices thrived)
• Absenteeism and on the job accidents
• Volstead Act 1919 enforced 18th Amend

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Bootlegging

• Private source for alcohol
• Suppliers of illegal alcohol
• Speakeasies bars that operated illegally
• Membership card or recognition to get in

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Organized Crime

• Gangsters operated independently
• Would join forces to handle larger operations
• Clash with other gangs
• Took up other illegal activities
• Racketeering
• Bribe officers or officials to ignore illegal
  operations
• Force business to pay a fee for protection

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Al Capone

• Most notorious
• Scarface
• 60 million a year from bootlegging
• FBI (J. Edgar Hoover)
• 1931 sent to prison for tax evasion
• Bootlegging a problem till 1933

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Religion

• Challenge to traditional beliefs
• Science and technology
• War
• Bible contained contradictions
• Fundamentalism
• Stated beliefs supporting Christian ideas
• Billy Sunday

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Scopes Trial

• Theory of Evolution
• Tennessee passes law saying evolution cannot be
  taught
• John T. Scopes (teacher) challenges idea
• William Jennings Bryan v. Clarence Darrow
  (defended Scopes)
• First trial broadcast over American radio
• Scopes found guilty (fined 100)
• Clash between modern and traditional values

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Racial Tensions

• Mob violence in 1919 Red Summer
• Riots in Chicago because of overcrowding
  neighborhoods
• Lynching and KKK still continue
• Revival of Klan in 1915 crimes against African
  Am., Catholics, Jews, immigrants, etc.

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NAACP

• Try to pass anti-lynching laws
• Try to protect voting rights
• Very limited success

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Garvey Movement

• A.A. wanted new homeland because of violence
• Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement
  Association
• Build up self respect and economic power
• Urged A.A. to return to Africa
• Encourage black pride movement