1920’s ch. 12 review

Post WWI Problems violent labor strikes urban racial riots bomb scares anger towards anarchists

The Red Scare Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer “Fighting Quaker” The Palmer Raids- J.Edgar Hoover & Palmer –the Russian Revolution = Communist gov. –the presence of Communist party members in the United States worried many –bomb scares and actual bombings –labor strikes

Sacco & Vanzetti Case Italian immigrants arrested * charged with robbery, murder * not proved guilty on evidence Jury finds them guilty and sentence to death

Nativism National Origins Acts –A belief that the nation's pool of labor was already overcrowded –The belief that immigrants were not assimilating –White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to bar immigrants of different racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds

Rise of the KKK –promote white supremacy –Nordic Americans –Rise in mostly Southern states

The Business of America in the 1920’s ch.12 section 3

Automobiles Effects –Changes in dating customs –more governmental funds for highways –The stimulation of industries connected to the automobile industry, such as batteries, steel, oil, glass, and rubber –Changed the way homes were constructed –The development of a motel industry

Goods and Prices wringer and washboard $5 brushes and brooms $5 sewing machine (mechanical) $25 washing machine $150 vacuum cleaner $ 50 sewing machine (electric) $ 60

The birth of Advertising & Installment Plans = Credit

“American consumers in the 1920s could purchase the latest household electrical appliances, such as a refrigerator, for as little as a dollar down and a dollar a week.” The American’s Chapter 12 sec. 3

A PERSONAL VOICE “Have you an automobile yet?” “No, I talked it over with John and he felt we could not afford one.” “Mr. Budge who lives in your town has one and they are not as well off as you are.” “Yes, I know. Their second installment came due, and they had no money to pay it.” “What did they do? Lose the car?” “No, they got the money and paid the installment.” “How did they get the money?” “They sold the cook-stove.” “How could they get along without a cook-stove?” “They didn’t. They bought another on the installment plan.” —a business owner quoted In the Time of Silent Cal

“She was a beautiful girl and talented too. She had the advantages of education and better clothes than most girls of her set. She possessed that culture and poise that travel brings. Yet in the one pursuit that stands foremost in the mind of every girl and woman— marriage—she was a failure.”

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