1920s A Decade of Change
Technology Drives Social + Economic Change Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh Henry Ford
Harlem Renaissance “Rebirth of African American Culture” The Great Migration and it’s effects Langston Hughes and many great poets and musicians Marcus Garvey “Back to Africa” Movement NAACP Founder W.E.B. Dubois
Prohibition 18th amendment and Volstead Act “Bootleggers” and “Speakeasies” Organized Crime and the likes of Al Capone
Anti Immigrant Sentiment Rises National Origins Act 1924 Sacco and Vanzetti Palmer Raids Growth then decline of the KKK Union membership declines Welfare Capitalism a better idea?