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1 The 1920s

2 The Red Scare/Palmer Raids
Green book pp ; Blue book pp Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids

3 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti National Origins Act Quotas
Growing Nativism Green book pp. 432, 438-9; Blue book pp Nativism Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti National Origins Act Quotas 2nd Ku Klux Klan

4 Prohibition Green book pp. 454-55; Blue book pp. 436-37 18th Amendment
Anti-Saloon League Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Volstead Act Prohibition Bureau Speakeasies Bootleggers Organized Crime/Al Capone

5 Pro-Business Government Policies
“The chief business of America is business”– President Calvin Coolidge Reduced income taxes on rich Reduced govt regulation of industry, opposition to labor unions Return to laissez faire form of capitalism

6 Growing Consumerism Green book pp. 443-45 Blue book pp. 425-27
Mass production Growth of annual income Spread of Electricity New products New developments in advertising Installment Buying Groups that did badly in the 1920s A Superficial Prosperity

7 Road Construction/Route 66 Growth of Car Ownership
The Car Craze Green book pp Blue book pp Model T & Model A Road Construction/Route 66 Related Industries Increased Mobility Suburbs & Commuting Growth of Car Ownership

8 Fundamentalism & the Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Green book pp ; Blue book pp Fundamentalism John T. Scopes Clarence Darrow Scopes Trial William Jennings Bryan Bishop Ussher

9 Flappers & the Challenge to Social Norms
Green book pp ; Blue book pp Zelda Fitzgerald Impacts of WWI Flappers Changes in Clothing, Behaviors Changes in Dating, Attitudes Toward Marriage Limits to the Flappers’ “Rebellion”


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