CHAPTER OUTLINE

Impact of war Disillusionment with old values Emergence of modernism Political and social radicalism Reactions in the 1920s Nativism Sacco and Vanzetti case Efforts to restrict immigration Revival of Ku Klux Klan Fundamentalism Growth of fundamentalism Leaders Scopes trial Prohibition Temperance organizations Eighteenth Amendment Effects of Prohibition Links to organized crime Al Capone Wickersham Report The Roaring Twenties A time of cultural conflict Disdain for rural–small-town values The Jazz Age Blend of musical traditions Movies The new morality Emphasis on youth Loosened taboos Obsession with sex Freud Popular entertainment The flapper Aspects of persistence into the 1930s Impact on family life Birth control Margaret Sanger Comstock Law Popular support for Sanger Eugenics The women’s movement The work for women’s suffrage Alice Paul and new tactics Contributions of Carrie Chapman Catt Passage and ratification of the amendment Transformation into the League of Women Voters Push for an Equal Rights Amendment Women in the workforce The “New Negro” The Great Migration north Demographics Impact of the move The Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey and Negro Nationalism Racial separatism Racial pride and self-reliance Fate of Garvey Development of the NAACP Emergence of the organization Role of Du Bois Effect of legislation The campaign against lynching Oscar De Priest: first northern black congressional representative Defeat of Judge Parkere The culture of modernism Science and social thought Einstein and relativity Max Planck and quantum theory Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle Denial of absolute values Modernist literature Chief features Exploration of the irrational Uncertainty seen as desirable Positive view of conflict Formal manners discounted for contact with “reality” Artistic bohemias The Armory show Chief U.S. prophets of modernism Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot Gertrude Stein F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Cult of masculinity Terse literary style Southern Literary Renaissance Reaction to growth of modern world Fugitive poets Thomas Wolfe William Faulkner