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1 Identify: Intolerable Acts

2 American Life in the “Roaring 20s”
Chapter 31 American Life in the “Roaring 20s”

3 “Seeing Red” Fear of Russia after 1917 revolution
“red scare”: Attorney General: Mitchell Palmer

4 Criminal Syndicalism Laws
State laws Illegal to advocate the use of violence for social change Freedom of speech restricted

5 “Americanism” Antiforeignism and antiredism Sacco and Vanzetti trial

6 Sacco and Vanzetti activity

7 KKK Resurgence in 1920s Intolerance and prejudice of American public

8 Klan Anti-foreign Anti-Catholic Anti-black Anti-Jewish Anti-pacifist
Anti-Communist Anti-internationalist Antievolutionist Anti-bootlegger Antigambling Anti-adultery Anti-birth control

9 Klan Pro-Anglo Saxon Pro- “native” American Pro-Protestant

10 Klan Dies out in late 1920s when Klan officials get caught embezzling money

11 Immigration Reform

12 Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Quota on number of European immigrants
3% of people of the same nationality that were living in US in 1910

13 Immigration Act of 1924 Replaced Quota Act 3% to 2%
Japanese banned from coming to America Canadians and Latin Americans exempt

14 Immigration Acts Ended the age of “unrestricted” immigration to the US
Significantly reduced immigration

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17 Prohibition

18 18th Amendment- 1919 Banned manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol Volstead Act- enforces Popular in the south and west

19 Prohibition lingo Speakeasies= secret saloons Bootleggers/rum runners
Moonshine

20 https://www. youtube. com/watch
&list=PL15ImDag00SYcsMQHqV2Dm_JR4ydJHX0v

21 Effects of Prohibition
Nascar Violence Organized Crime

22 Success? Not enforced well, not enough manpower Bank savings increased
Absenteeism in industry decreased

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24 “Golden Age of Gangsterism”
Rival gangs fought over control of alcohol sales Chicago: “Scarface” Al Capone Gangs expanded to other “industries”: gambling, narcotics, prostitution, kidnapping for ransom Lindbergh Law

25 Education 1920s: more state focus on education
Progressive education: “learn by doing” and “education for life”

26 Evolution Controversy
Fundamentalists Conservatives Evolution contributing to moral breakdown of youth Destroying faith in God/Bible

27 Scopes “Monkey Trial” John Scopes arrested in TN in 1925 for teaching evolution Prosecuting attorney: William Jennings Bryan! Found guilty, fined $100

28 Economics Mass Consumption Advertising

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36 Sports Baseball, basketball Attendance increases Babe Ruth

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39 Credit Increased personal debt Economy vulnerable

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41 Cars Assembly line, mass-production Detroit Henry Ford, Model T
1930, 20 million Model T’s being driven

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43 Effects More jobs Gasoline Railroad business hurt
Women less dependent on men Suburbs grew Death rates

44 Airplanes 1903: Wright Brothers WW1: planes used successfully
Private companies and passenger airlines

45 Charles Lindbergh

46 Amelia Earhart

47 Entertainment Radio: 1920s Movies: 1903 Hollywood Propaganda
Assimilation of immigrants

48 The Dynamic Decade Margaret Sanger: birth control
Alice Paul: Equal Rights Amendment Religion: Fundamentalists to Modernists Sigmund Freud

49 Flappers

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51 Jazz and the Charleston

52 African Americans Marcus Garvey: United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Harlem Renaissance

53 Stock Market 1920s: popular to average citizen
Tax cuts that shifted taxes from wealthy to middle class

54 Practice Long Essay Thesis: 1 point Use of Evidence: 2 points
Historical Skill: 2 points Synthesis: 1 point

55 Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s. In your response, focus on TWO of the following: Immigration Prohibition Religion


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