1. The Roaring Life of the 1920’s
Chapter 13

2. Sacco & Vanzetti Case

3. Sacco & Vanzetti Accused of murdering a paymaster and guard in holdup.
Accused for sole purpose of being anarchists, and Italians
Evidence was ridiculously flimsy.

6. Cont’d Both had alibis Judge: Guilty by association
Given the death sentence.
Appealed for 7 years, executed August 23, 1927.

7. Sacco & Vanzetti

9. Immigration Cuts Attempt to keep foreigners out
Established a quota system
Discriminated against eastern and southern Europe
The National Origins Act of 1924 exempted Mexico from quotas

10. Clash between Science & Religion
Morality based on personal freedom
Fundamentalism vs. Science
Scopes Trial (1925)
Biology teacher fired for teaching evolution in class.
Fined $100, law stays in effect

11. Scopes Trial

13. Clarence Darrow

14. William Jennings Bryan

15. Prohibition Enforcement
Speakeasies everywhere
Hard to enforce when very few seemed to believe in it.
Repealed w/ the
21st Amendment

17. Al Capone

19. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

22. Flappers Old Ways are pushed aside. Fight against double standards
Women cut hair short (bobbed), wear more revealing clothing.
Begin smoking and drinking illegal alcohol

28. Birth Control to raise Living standards for families. (Sanger)
Margaret Mead in Anthropology.

29. More students going to high school More courses offered
Education Expands
More students going to high school
More courses offered
Much higher literacy rate
Allows Mass Media to have bigger effect on society.

30. Search For New Heroes
No longer look to politicians, but to entertainment figures
1927 first “talkie”
Even to mobsters

31. Charles A. Lindbergh

46. Literature The Lost Generation A sense of disillusionment
Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise

48. F. Scott Fitzgerald

49. Sinclair Lewis: Babbit
Absurdities of small town life

50. Harlem Renaissance Black Writers and musicians based in Harlem.
Celebrate Black life
Beginnings of Jazz (Cotton Club)
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith

53. Greenwich Village
Artists, and intellectuals flock to this area of Manhattan
Bohemian lifestyle: artistic and unconventional

54. Political Shifts NAACP organizes protest march in N.Y.
Able to keep racist judge from Supreme Court
Anti-lynching fights
A-A’s vote Republican
The party of Lincoln
Marcus Garvey urges separation. Return to Africa movement
Separation movement

55. Marcus Garvey

57. The Return of the KKK Membership up to 2 million in 1925.
March in Washington D.C.
“Keep the Negro in his place.”
Declines again with new restrictions on immigration and scandals.