 We will examine the period of change known as the Roaring Twenties and how different groups responded to that change. › Chapter Test Topics › Chapter 31 Guidebook › Chapter 32 Notes

 Election of 1912  Amendments 16, 17, 18, and 19  Federal Reserve  Clayton Anti-Trust Act  Allies v. Central Powers  Bull Moose Party  Reasons America Enters War  Wilson’s Reasons for War  14 points  Schenck V. United States  League of Nations  Ku Klux Klan  Immigration Quotas  Sacco and Vanzetti  Debt  Scopes Trial  Henry Ford  Prohibition  Charles Lindbergh  F. Scott Fitzgerald  Margaret Sanger

 Seeing Red › Bolshevik Revolution in Russia spawns communist party in America › Red scare – nationwide crusade against people who were Un-American › Free speech was restricted › Sacco and Vanzetti case – jury was prejudiced against men because they were Italians, atheists, and draft dodgers. Executed in 1927

 Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK › Klan spread quickly in the 1920s › Pro “native” American, Pro Protestant › Anti Foreigner, Anti Catholic, Anti Communist › Numbers rose because of fear of drastic social change in America

 Stemming the Foreign Blood › Emergency Quota Act – European Quota 3% of nationality in 1910 › Immigration Act of 1924 – lowered Quota to 2% and ended unrestricted immigration in America

 The Prohibition Experiment › 18 th Amendment banned alcohol › Supported by churches and women › Speakeasies replaced saloons › Savings increased and absenteeism from work drops, increase in organized crime

 Monkey Business in Tennessee › John Scopes, school teacher arrested for teacher evolution › Fundamentalist claimed teaching evolution was leading to moral breakdown of society

 Mass Consumption › Advertising made people want items more › Assembly line made the Model T affordable to many Americans › Most Americans bought on credit and ran up a huge debt

 Developments › Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic solo › Gugliemo Marconi develops wireless telegraph › Radio becomes popular and delivers news and entertainment › Motion picture developed by Edison. The Great Train Robbery

 Dynamic Decade › Known as the Jazz Age › Margaret Sanger led birth control revolution › Flappers were young women who broke with tradition › F. Scott Fitzgerald writes the Great Gatsby