The Red Scare/Palmer Raids Green book pp ; Blue book pp Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids
Growing Nativism Green book pp. 432, 438-9; Blue book pp Nativism Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti National Origins Act Quotas 2 nd Ku Klux Klan
Prohibition Green book pp ; Blue book pp th Amendment Anti-Saloon League Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Volstead Act Prohibition Bureau Speakeasies Bootleggers Organized Crime/Al Capone
Pro-Business Government Policies “The chief business of America is business”– President Calvin Coolidge Reduced income taxes on rich Reduced govt regulation of industry, opposition to labor unions Return to laissez faire form of capitalism
Growing Consumerism Green book pp Blue book pp Mass production Growth of annual income Spread of Electricity New products New developments in advertising Installment Buying Groups that did badly in the 1920s A Superficial Prosperity
The Car Craze Green book pp Blue book pp Model T & Model A Road Construction/Route 66 Related Industries Increased Mobility Suburbs & Commuting Growth of Car Ownership
Fundamentalism & the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Green book pp ; Blue book pp Fundamentalism John T. Scopes Clarence Darrow Scopes Trial William Jennings Bryan Bishop Ussher
Flappers & the Challenge to Social Norms Green book pp ; Blue book pp Zelda Fitzgerald Impacts of WWI Flappers Changes in Clothing, Behaviors Changes in Dating, Attitudes Toward Marriage Limits to the Flappers’ “Rebellion”