1. The Roaring Twenties

2. Politics Red Scare: fear of communism Limiting immigration
Palmer Raids: searched for communists, socialists, anarchists
Sacco and Vanzetti
Limiting immigration
Klan rises
Quota system: set a maximum # of immigrants per country

3. Klan Membership Numbers
1920
4,000,000
1924
6,000,000
1930
30,000,000
1980
5,000
2008
6,000

4. Politics cont. Harding Presidency Coolidge Presidency
Fordney-McCumber Tariff: 60% import tax
Scandal: Cabinet members were corrupt (graft, secretly leased reserved land for oil drilling)
Died suddenly in office
Coolidge Presidency
Minimum government interference in economy

5. A Booming Economy Auto industry created need for new businesses
Airplane industry: Pan American Airways
Standard of living increased
More free time
Electrical conveniences: refrigerators, ranges, toasters, washing machine, vacuums, sewing machines
Ability to buy on credit and use of the installment plan

6. Prohibition Lawbreakers Failure of Prohibition
18th Amendment (1920): The Noble Experiment
Lawbreakers
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Organized crime: Al Capone
Failure of Prohibition
Not enough money to enforce laws
Corrupt government/law enforcement
Overturned in 1933 by the 21st Amendment

7. Flappers New behaviors New style
More independence since gaining the right to vote (19th amendment)
Demanded same freedoms as men
More rebellious: smoking, drinking, talking openly about sex, dancing
New style
Short hair, shorter dresses, more makeup

8. Flappers, cont. New job opportunities The changing family
Clerical work, teachers, nurses
The changing family
Lower birth rate due to birth control
Household labor decreased due to technology
Greater equality in marriage
Struggle w/ adolescent rebelliousness

9. Science vs. Religion Fundamentalism: Scopes Trial
a literal interpretation of the Bible
Rejected the theory of evolution
Scopes Trial
Law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools
William Scope challenged the law and was arrested
Trial became known as the Monkey Trial
Found guilty but later overturned on a technicality

10. New Heroes
George Gershwin
Charles Lindbergh
Babe Ruth

11. Harlem Renaissance
A movement of African American culture in music, literature, dance and art
Jazz and blues
Novels and theatre
Resulted from the Great Migration, in which African Americans moved North for jobs
Centered in Harlem, NY

12. Harlem Renaissance, cont.