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:

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