Prohibition during the 1920s can be compared to the current social issue of… The changing role of women during the 1920s are similar to the roles of women in society today because…

Racial tensions during the 1920s are similar to racial tensions today because…

Conflicts in beliefs and values as a result of the

rapid social changes of the 1920s

The divides could be seen along the following lines:

Rural v. urban

Traditional beliefs v. modern (way of life)

Conservative v. liberal

Society of the 1920s: Great Migration

Great Migration- movement of black Americans from the South to

Northern urban areas

Reasons for moving:

Push factors- escape racism, segregation (Jim Crow laws)

Pull factor- Higher paying job opportunities (sharecropping to

factory jobs)

Results:

Black population in Northern states increased

 1860- 7% 1910- 11% 1930- 20%

Social unrest arose as an unintended consequence

Migration patterns

Racism

1919 “Red Summer”

Bloody riots break out in nearly 40 cities across the

U.S. to postwar social tensions related to the

demobilization of WWI vets, both black and white, &

competition for jobs among ethnic whites and blacks

The federal government laid

much of the blame on local

black community leaders thus

did little stop the violence

Racism

Revival of the KKK

Membership- 1922 (100,000) 1924 (4,000,000)

Racism- Strongest in the South (mostly rural) and other sparsely

populated areas of the country (IN had the most KKK members)

Actions were against Jewish, Catholic, and black Americans

Explanation:

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

w.e.b du bois was the founder of the niagara movement and later the naacp, du bois disagreed with washington. he argued that african americans should consistently fight for racial equality.

ida b. wells was a journalist who wrote about the horrors of lynching in the south. wells work could be considered muckraking as it led to the development of the anti-lynching campaign.

the answer is a the rich and poor get an equal share of the power and wealth

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