Clash of Cultures: The 1910s and 1920s

LOG ON TO: http://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/clash/default

Step 1: Click on “Introduction,” read and answer the following questions:

Complete your responses on a
1. What are three examples of “old” and “new” separate word document. Please
cultures compared and contrasted in the chart? save it as a PDF and upload to
Google Classroom turn in under
1920’s webquest and presentation
2. What was another name for “prohibition?” display

3. “While the KKK purported to represent "old-fashioned values," it unabashedly

adopted the new methodologies of the industrial economy. Although the Klan
continued to target African Americans, it focused much of its attention on” whom?

Step 2: GO TO Prohibition
4. According to the political cartoon, what were the “two sides of the question” of
the “noble experiment” that was prohibition?

5. How long did the period of prohibition last (page 6)?

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6. What was forbidden under the 18 Amendment?
Step 3: CLICK ON the “more success than expected…” link, which is found on page 1 of the prohibition section

7. How do contemporary historians like John C. Burnham, Norman Clark and

David Kyvig see the prohibition experiment today?

Step 4: CLICK ON the “nineteenth century” link, which is found on page 1 of the prohibition section

8. What were some of the temperance organizations that sprang up in

the nineteenth century in support of prohibition?

Step 5: GO TO: Immigration Restriction & The Ku Klux Klan

9. How many immigrants fueled labor needs in the U.S. between 1870 and 1915?

Step 6: CLICK ON “Immigration Restriction” link/photo:

10. Specifically, what types of “undesirables” (not nations) did nativist groups and the federal government
target with legislation such as the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” and the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Step 7: GO TO: Page 2 of “Immigration Restriction”

11. According to the political cartoon, what percentage of European (specifically eastern
and southern) did the Uncle Sam allow through the funnel?

12. What events after WWI intensified “anti-immigrant” sentiment?

Step 8: CLICK ON “trial of Sacco and Vanzetti” link:
13. How many accomplices did Sacco and Vanzetti have?

14. What was the name of the factory that they robbed?

15. In addition to their ancestry (Italian) what was their political

persuasion and why would they be seen as a threat?

16. Who was trying to round up these “undesirables” in their alleged

association with a series of bombings? What were these “raids” called?

17. Which two geographic regions of Europe were specifically targeted with this new legislation?

Step 9: CLICK ON “Immigration Act of 1924”:

18. According to the cart, what three nations were allowed the largest number if immigrants to enter the U.S.?

Step 10: GO TO: The Ku Klux Klan

19. What “cultural changes” were nativist groups like the KKK responding to?

20. Who was the KKK trying to “enlist” during this period?

21. What was this “second era” of the “fraternal order” most concerned with?

Step 11: GO TO: Page 2 of “The Ku Klux Klan”:

22. What was a major concern for Klansmen in the North?

23. What was the KKK’s concern with Catholics?

24. What was the estimated Klan enrollment during the 1920s?

Step 12: GO TO: “Opposition”:

25. What were writers of the time calling for a return to?

26. Specifically which groups opposed this image of the “new woman”?

27. What organization attempted to “minimize the temptations of modern city life”?