1. Return to Normalcy

2. The 1920s were supposed to be normal...
...but they were anything but normal.

3. The Culture War
“Normalcy” Under Attack

5. The Bolshevik Revolution
(1917)

6. POSSIBLY YOU!

7. First
The Red Scare ^

8. A Slippery Slope

9. TARGET: “Radical” Immigrants
Palmer Raids
January, 1920
TARGET: “Radical” Immigrants
Communists
Socialists
Anarchists
Thousands Arrested
Hundreds Deported
A. Mitchell Palmer
Attorney General

10. Suspected Radicals awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island

11. “The Case Against the Reds”
“Upon these two basic certainties, first that the "Reds" were criminal aliens and secondly that the American Government must prevent crime, it was decided that there could be no nice distinctions drawn between the theoretical ideals of the radicals and their actual violations of our national laws.”
Palmer
Further Reading:

12. Political Cartoon

13. Nativism

14. “Where the Blame Lies”
1891 Political Cartoon

15. U.S. Immigration
COMPARE to

16. U.S. Immigration
COMPARE to

19. Immigration Restrictions
Emergency Quota Act
(1921)
National Origins Act
(1924) 3%
Of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910 2%
Of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1890

20. More Immigration Statistics
Immigrant Arrivals
1921
1925
1928
Eastern Europe
138,000
10,000
14,000
Southern Europe
299,000
8,000
22,000
Asia
25,000
4,000
Mexico
31,000
33,000
40,000
TOTAL
805,000
294,000
280,000
More Immigration Statistics

21. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
TWO STRIKES:
Italian Immigrants
Anarchists
The Evidence

22. Protest

23. The Funeral

24. Execution

25. The Funeral Procession

26. Womanhood
Circa 1920

27. http://tothetwenties. blogspot

29. Bobbed Hair & Short Skirts
The New Woman
Bobbed Hair & Short Skirts

31. http://tothetwenties. blogspot

32. flappers

33. Flappers Challenged social norms Discovery of adolescence Jazz
Short Skirts & Hair
Premarital sex
Double Standard
Discovery of adolescence
Child Labor

35. The music of young adolescent rebellion
JAZZ
The music of young adolescent rebellion
Louis Armstrong

36. DANCE PARTY!!!

37. What’s OUT

38. What’s IN

39. SMOKIN’ HOT
Photo by hyllna

40. Hey! Is that MY cigarette?

41. What’s NEXT???

42. Sheet music for the song "We Men Must Grow A Mustache
Sheet music for the song "We Men Must Grow A Mustache." 1922 Inset photo of bandleader Abe Lyman.
Although some saw Flapper culture as a threat to traditional gender roles...

43. Most women were content to stay home and play with their new toys.

46. Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c.1921.