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1 The Roaring 1920s AKA the “Jazz Age”

2 Technology Electricity Edison and Westinghouse Skyscrapers
- Empire State Building

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6 Tech Continued Communications - Telephones - Radio - connected the whole country - Movies - The Jazz Singer – 1st “talkie”

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10 Red Scare Fear of socialism in the US Russia Rise of Socialist Party
Eugene Debs – 1 million votes in 1920 Labor unrest Strikes all over nation

11 Boston Police Force on Strike

12 Eugene V. Debs – Socialist POTUS candidate

13 Communist Revolution in Russia

14 Palmer Raids A. Mitchell Palmer – US Att. Gen
1919-bombed home Anarchists/socialists suspected Palmer instituted raids on “Reds” 5,000 arrested; 600 deported J Edgar Hoover

15 Office in NJ after a Palmer Raid

16 J Edgar Hoover

17 Nativism Opposition to anything foreign Examples Xenophobia
Sacco-Vanzetti Case – 2 Italian anarchists charged with murder w/ little proof - EXECUTED Immigration laws passed Emergence of patriot groups American Legion Daughters of the American Revolution

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20 Immigration Laws -Quota Systems 1921 – Immigration Act of 1921
1924 – Imm. Act of 1924 2% of # of each nat. present in US 1890 1927 – Nat. Origins Act – overall limit of Eur. Imm. a year to 150,000

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23 Ku Klux Klan Against: Spread to urban areas – Detroit, Atl, Chi
Non-whites/foreigners/Cath./Jews Spread to urban areas – Detroit, Atl, Chi Declined after 1924

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25 AA in 1920s Great Migration Race Riots
– AA went to northern cities JOBS, less discrimination than south Race Riots Chicago – 1919 Several dozen deaths; hundreds injured Knoxville, Omaha, Tulsa

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27 Marcus Garvey Jamaican - NYC
“self-help” – African people reclaim homelands from Europeans Universal Negro Improvement Assoc. Newspaper – Negro World Black Cross Nurses, AA groceries Black Star Line – steamships Went bankrupt; imprisoned for mail fraud deported

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29 Fundamentalism Believed in the literal interpretation of the Bible
Scopes Trial – Darrow v. Bryan Evolution v. Creationism

30 William Jennings Bryan – expert on Bible, former POTUS candidate, believed in fundamentalism Clarence Darrow – Lawyer defending Scope for teaching Evolution

31 Billy Sunday – Religious Speaker

32 Harlem Renaissance AA writers, artists, intellectuals in NYC
used black vernacular JAZZ How to be both black and intellectual?

33 Lost Generation White writers that fled to Europe Paris
Felt alienated by US materialism, conformity, prejudice Disillusioned by WWI

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