1. The Roaring 20s, the Jazz Age & Mexican Immigration
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2. Women in the 1920s
More women working , gaining education, and earning higher wages
Women gained right to Vote
Margret Sanger: supporter of birth control and sexual liberation for women
Flappers: women that smoked, drank, wore sexy clothes and listened to Jazz music

3. Women in the 1920s

4. Prohibition of Alcohol
18th Amendment – banned alcohol in U.S.
Alcohol caused unemployment, domestic violence
Arrests of bootleggers (make and smuggle alcohol)
Speakeasies: secret underground bars for drinking gambling, and partying
21st Amendment – ended ban on alcohol

5. Prohibition of Alcohol

6. Technology
Car: increased convenience, commute to work, high standard of living
Mass production in assembly lines
Wright Brothers: 1st successful airplane

7. Technology

8. Technology Entertainment on radio or silent movies becomes important
Use cars to travel and see movies
Advertisements aimed at consumers

9. Technology

10. The Harlem Renaissance
Movement of African-American racial pride, art, literature, and political organization
Writers like Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston

11. The Harlem Renaissance

12. The Harlem Renaissance
Jazz and Blues music: Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday
Cotton Club: most famous nightclub in Harlem, featured black performers
Only whites in the audience

13. The Harlem Renaissance

14. Immigration to the U.S.
Emergency Quota Act (1921): restricted immigration based on ethnic group
National Origins Act (1924): set stricter limits for immigrants allowed into U.S., favored Europeans
No Asians allowed to move to U.S.

15. Immigration to the U.S.

16. Diego Rivera Mexican artist, painted cubist style art
Painted murals during Mexican Revolution showing Mexican people throughout history
(1928) major project painting the Palacio Nacional in Mexico

17. Diego Rivera

18. Diego Rivera

19. Diego Rivera

20. Diego Rivera

21. Americanization of Mexicans
Stereotype: Mexicans viewed as dirty, lazy, irresponsible
White Anglos-Saxon Protestant (WASP): considered “real Americans” started a campaign of fear to stop immigration to the U.S.
IQ Tests used to discriminate against Mexicans

22. Americanization of Mexicans

23. Americanization of Mexicans
(1892) Mexican children denied entrance to white schools
Adolpho Romo: successfully sued Tempe School to get children admitted (1925)
Mexican children require to say Pledge of Allegiance

24. Anti-Mexican Feelings and Actions in the U.S.
Bad economy and high unemployment blamed on Mexican laborers
Mexicans sent to concentration camps, deported, cheated out of wages
Emergency Quota Act: restricting who is allowed into U.S.
Goal: to keep America white

25. Anti-Mexican Feelings and Actions in the U.S.

26. League of United Latin American Citizens
LULAC: political organization that protects rights of Mexican-Americans
Women’s rights
Better schools
Voter registration
economic, social, and racial equality

27. League of United Latin American Citizens