1920’s Intro
Organized Crime Made powerful by Prohibition Crime Mobs throughout nation Al Capone Lucky Luciano Bugs Moran John Dilinger Defined by automatic weapons Powerful crime forced the need for powerful law enforcement How did law enforcement find new ways to lock up gangsters?
Women’s Increased Independence 1. Higher Education 2. Employment (From WWI) Income leading to freedom 3. Political Rights Suffrage 4. Defiance from previous generation
Consumerism Can’t afford it? Credit Installment Plans 5 easy payments of….
Flourishing Arts Harlem Renaissance Golden Age of writing Emergence of Jazz Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington Golden Age of writing Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Georgia O’Keeffe
Political Paranoia Red Scare Anarchists Fear Fright of communism spreading Socialist & Communist organizations were attacked Anarchists Fear Sacco & Vanzetti (anarchist immigrants) Were found guilty for murder & executed Very little evidence
Nativism Movement Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and assumptions that they cannot be assimilated.