Return to Normalcy

The 1920s were supposed to be normal... ...but they were anything but normal.

The Culture War “Normalcy” Under Attack

The Bolshevik Revolution (1917)

POSSIBLY YOU!

First The Red Scare ^ 1919-1920

A Slippery Slope

TARGET: “Radical” Immigrants Palmer Raids January, 1920 TARGET: “Radical” Immigrants Communists Socialists Anarchists Thousands Arrested Hundreds Deported A. Mitchell Palmer Attorney General

Suspected Radicals awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island

“The Case Against the Reds” “Upon these two basic certainties, first that the "Reds" were criminal aliens and secondly that the American Government must prevent crime, it was decided that there could be no nice distinctions drawn between the theoretical ideals of the radicals and their actual violations of our national laws.” Palmer Further Reading: http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/palmer.html

Political Cartoon

Nativism

“Where the Blame Lies” 1891 Political Cartoon

U.S. Immigration 1880-1889 COMPARE to 1900-1909

U.S. Immigration 1900-1909 COMPARE to 1880-1889

Immigration Restrictions Emergency Quota Act (1921) National Origins Act (1924) 3% Of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910 2% Of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1890

More Immigration Statistics Immigrant Arrivals 1921 1925 1928 Eastern Europe 138,000 10,000 14,000 Southern Europe 299,000 8,000 22,000 Asia 25,000 4,000 Mexico 31,000 33,000 40,000 TOTAL 805,000 294,000 280,000 More Immigration Statistics

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial TWO STRIKES: Italian Immigrants Anarchists The Evidence

Protest

The Funeral

Execution

The Funeral Procession

Womanhood Circa 1920 http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/261171/iron-electric-hotpoint-1920s

http://tothetwenties. blogspot http://tothetwenties.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-dont-mind-housekeeping-bit.html

Bobbed Hair & Short Skirts The New Woman Bobbed Hair & Short Skirts http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/1920s/images/17379132/title/1920s-photographs-photo

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flappers

Flappers Challenged social norms Discovery of adolescence Jazz Short Skirts & Hair Premarital sex Double Standard Discovery of adolescence Child Labor

The music of young adolescent rebellion JAZZ The music of young adolescent rebellion Louis Armstrong

DANCE PARTY!!!

What’s OUT http://www.delilahscollection.com/aboutcorsets.htm

What’s IN http://pinterest.com/pin/83035186850475089/

SMOKIN’ HOT Photo by hyllna

Hey! Is that MY cigarette?

What’s NEXT???

Sheet music for the song "We Men Must Grow A Mustache Sheet music for the song "We Men Must Grow A Mustache." 1922 Inset photo of bandleader Abe Lyman. Although some saw Flapper culture as a threat to traditional gender roles...

Most women were content to stay home and play with their new toys.

Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c.1921.