1. Period 3 & 7
We will examine the period of change known as the Roaring Twenties and how different groups responded to that change.
Test topics
Go over homework
Chapter 32 Notes
Assembly Line challenge

2. Test Topics Causes of World War I Americans at home during the war
Americans at war
Wilson’s 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles
Anger about treaty at home
Fear of immigrants/ communists/ change
KKK
Prohibition
Scopes Trial/ Sacco and Vanzetti
Woman suffrage
Modernization/ Henry Ford/ Lindbergh
Jazz Age/ Flappers

3. Seeing Red
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia spawns communist party in America
Red scare – nationwide crusade against people who were Un-American
Free speech was restricted
Sacco and Vanzetti case – jury was prejudiced against men because they were Italians, atheists, and draft dodgers. Executed in 1927

4. Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK
Klan spread quickly in the 1920s
Pro “native” American, Pro Protestant
Anti Foreigner, Anti Catholic, Anti Communist
Numbers rose because of fear of drastic social change in America

5. Stemming the Foreign Blood
Emergency Quota Act – European Quota 3% of nationality in 1910
Immigration Act of 1924 – lowered Quota to 2% and ended unrestricted immigration in America

6. The Prohibition Experiment
18th Amendment banned alcohol
Supported by churches and women
Speakeasies replaced saloons
Savings increased and absenteeism from work drops, increase in organized crime

7. Monkey Business in Tennessee
John Scopes, school teacher arrested for teacher evolution
Fundamentalist claimed teaching evolution was leading to moral breakdown of society

8. Mass Consumption Advertising made people want items more
Assembly line made the Model T affordable to many Americans
Most Americans bought on credit and ran up a huge debt

9. Developments Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic solo
Gugliemo Marconi develops wireless telegraph
Radio becomes popular and delivers news and entertainment
Motion picture developed by Edison. The Great Train Robbery

11. b Dynamic Decade Known as the Jazz Age
Margaret Sanger led birth control revolution
Flappers were young women who broke with tradition
F. Scott Fitzgerald writes the Great Gatsby b