Rural Areas
Urban Areas
Religion
Education
Immigration
100
What did Rural Americans enjoy?
The traditional ways of life such as farming, and mail-order catalogs, and the very first department stores.
100
What did Urban Americans enjoy?
consumer products and a wide array of leisure activities.
100
What did many Americans believe was under siege throughout the world?
Christianity.
100
What are the Three R's?
Read, write, and arithmetic.
100
In the past, How did immigrants threaten Americans?
Took jobs away, threaten religious, political, and cultural traditions.
200
What form of teaching did Rural Americans oppose?
Teaching of evolution
200
What is the term for the belief in change?
Modernism
200
Who attacked the Orthodox Church in Russia?
Soviet Communists.
200
Farmers expected their children to master what?
The Three R's
200
What happen on the eve of WWI?
Congress passed a law requiring immigrants to take a literacy test.
300
What is the term for wanting to keep things the way they have been?
Traditionalism
300
What is the name for people who came from other countries to the U.S ?
Immigrants
300
What is reaffirming beliefs in the fundamental , or basic truths of religion?
Fundamentalism
300
What seemed more important to farmers than "book-learning"?
Muscle, endurance, and knowledge of crops and animals.
300
What was the problem that confronted nativists?
traditional immigration policies.
400
Who suffered the most in rural areas?
Farmers.
400
What type of music became popular in Urban areas?
Jazz
400
What area was Fundamentalists and Protestant teachings especially strong?
Rural
400
What was the difference between a low-paying job, unskilled job, and a higher paying position as an office worker?
Mastery of Mathematics and Language
400
What did nativist fail to do?
They failed to push through laws to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
500
What made it easy for everyone to get the same clothes as someone in an another state?
Mail-order catalog
500
What was the major cause of economic growth ?
Increasing availability of cars.
500
What did the Scope Trial state and what did it clash with?
It stated that humans was originated from monkeys, and it clashed with the Bible.
500
What happen in schools and colleges by the 1930s?
More American teens were graduating from high school and more Americans were attending college than before.
500
What factors strengthened the nativist position?
WWI, Russian Revolution, and The Red Scare.
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