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Identify: Intolerable Acts
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American Life in the “Roaring 20s”
Chapter 31 American Life in the “Roaring 20s”
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“Seeing Red” Fear of Russia after 1917 revolution
“red scare”: Attorney General: Mitchell Palmer
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Criminal Syndicalism Laws
State laws Illegal to advocate the use of violence for social change Freedom of speech restricted
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“Americanism” Antiforeignism and antiredism Sacco and Vanzetti trial
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Sacco and Vanzetti activity
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KKK Resurgence in 1920s Intolerance and prejudice of American public
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Klan Anti-foreign Anti-Catholic Anti-black Anti-Jewish Anti-pacifist
Anti-Communist Anti-internationalist Antievolutionist Anti-bootlegger Antigambling Anti-adultery Anti-birth control
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Klan Pro-Anglo Saxon Pro- “native” American Pro-Protestant
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Klan Dies out in late 1920s when Klan officials get caught embezzling money
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Immigration Reform
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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
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Immigration Act of 1924 Replaced Quota Act 3% to 2%
Japanese banned from coming to America Canadians and Latin Americans exempt
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Immigration Acts Ended the age of “unrestricted” immigration to the US
Significantly reduced immigration
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Prohibition
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18th Amendment- 1919 Banned manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol Volstead Act- enforces Popular in the south and west
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Prohibition lingo Speakeasies= secret saloons Bootleggers/rum runners
Moonshine
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Effects of Prohibition
Nascar Violence Organized Crime
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Success? Not enforced well, not enough manpower Bank savings increased
Absenteeism in industry decreased
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“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
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Education 1920s: more state focus on education
Progressive education: “learn by doing” and “education for life”
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Evolution Controversy
Fundamentalists Conservatives Evolution contributing to moral breakdown of youth Destroying faith in God/Bible
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Scopes “Monkey Trial” John Scopes arrested in TN in 1925 for teaching evolution Prosecuting attorney: William Jennings Bryan! Found guilty, fined $100
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Economics Mass Consumption Advertising
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Sports Baseball, basketball Attendance increases Babe Ruth
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Credit Increased personal debt Economy vulnerable
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Cars Assembly line, mass-production Detroit Henry Ford, Model T
1930, 20 million Model T’s being driven
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Effects More jobs Gasoline Railroad business hurt
Women less dependent on men Suburbs grew Death rates
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Airplanes 1903: Wright Brothers WW1: planes used successfully
Private companies and passenger airlines
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Charles Lindbergh
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Amelia Earhart
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Entertainment Radio: 1920s Movies: 1903 Hollywood Propaganda
Assimilation of immigrants
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The Dynamic Decade Margaret Sanger: birth control
Alice Paul: Equal Rights Amendment Religion: Fundamentalists to Modernists Sigmund Freud
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Flappers
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Jazz and the Charleston
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African Americans Marcus Garvey: United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Harlem Renaissance
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Stock Market 1920s: popular to average citizen
Tax cuts that shifted taxes from wealthy to middle class
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Practice Long Essay Thesis: 1 point Use of Evidence: 2 points
Historical Skill: 2 points Synthesis: 1 point
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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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