1. AP US History
Segment 2 Week 6

2. Objectives This Week 6.04 The Jazz Age Writing Assignment
6.05 Migration and Deportation

3. The Roaring 20s Prohibition Speakeasies Flappers
New Technologies (consumerism): Refrigeration, telephones, other household appliances. Families went into debt to pay

4. Conflicting Ideas
Seen as a time of prosperity but rural areas continued to struggle
Fundamentalism Christians feared the rising consumerism
Scopes Trial- Evolution vs the Bible
Unions vs Employers- Companies hired migrant workers to bypass unions, but paid them low wages and worked long hours. Workers
After WW1, soldiers suffered physically and psychologically
Americans were against our involvement in WW1
Women were give the right to vote and other social freedoms

5. Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration- African Americans moved North for better economic opportunities
Many moved to Harlem section of New York. Rise in African American art, writings, and music
Also rise in KKK. Preferred Fundamentalism to science, rural to urban, and natives to immigrants.

6. 6.4 Writing Assignment
Analyze the role of cultural conflict as a force shaping US society in the 1920s.
You need to analyze one document:
Scopes Trial (Fundamentalism vs Science)
Anti-Lynching Broadside (Anti-lynching Bill)
Call for Unity Between Black and White Laborers (Workers vs Employers, Also White vs Black- Unions rarely included African Americans)
Automobile Factory Photograph (Workers vs Employers, new technologies, consumerism)
Select one document and describe the historical context and write a thesis, how the document represents cultural conflict
Then choose a second document, and explain if you would change your thesis or not

7. 6.5 Immigration and Deportation
Make sure you understand the following:
Red Scare
Bisbee Deportation
100% American
US Borders
Immigration Act of 1924
Labor Organizations
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Migrant Workers from Mexico

8. Red Scare Russian revolution in 1917
Fear of communism, socialism, and anarchy spread to the US. Also labor
International Workers of the World Union had ties to socialism and anarchy. Frequently went on strikes. IWW represented immigrants
US government told people IWW was a cover organization for Russian communists, and wanted to destroy American workforce and way of life

9. Bisbee Deportation
IWW, representing migrant workers demanded better working conditions for m the Bisbee Mining Corporation, but were denied
Armed forces came in to stop any striking and deported workers. Deemed illegal by the federal government but went unpunished

10. Restricted Immigration
Immigration Act of restricted Immigration from Asia and Southern Europe. Western Hemisphere was left out of restriction
Borders were tightened everywhere except border with Mexico
With Red Scare in the US, government rounded up and deported anyone they identified as political threats

11. Great Depression
1929 Stock Market Crashed leading to the Great Depression
1930s- Major drought and poor farming practices led to Dust Bowl
Nativism and Xenophobia led to Mexicans not being welcomed (Nativism and Xnophobia are highest during periods of economic downturn)
Bracero program during WW2- US needed workers so they welcomed Mexican immigrants again

12. Thank you for coming! Have a great day!
Any Questions?
Thank you for coming! Have a great day!