1. AP Chapter 31 Notes
1920s saw US become isolationist, shut off immigration, seal off domestic economy
Standard of living rose, new technology, products, leisure and entertainment
Reds
Hysterical fears of Russia spread during this first Red Scare
Various strikes and labor unrest-unions under attack!
Some Americans thought the unrest was the work of the Bolsheviks
Strike in Seattle in 1919-general strike yet the mayor called for federal troops to assist
Federal government moved to attack left wingers
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer went after many w/ great zeal-6,000 total-bomb of Palmer’s house made worse

3. December of 1919 aliens shipped to Russia/bomb on Wall Street in Sept
December of 1919 aliens shipped to Russia/bomb on Wall Street in Sept killed
State Legislatures passed laws which advocated jail for mentioning change w/ violence-Free Speech?
5 Socialist NY Legislators not allowed to take seats
Great news for conservative owners-Labor power broken-”Closed Shop”-Sovietism in disguise-American Plan-Open Shops
Sacco and Vanzetti aroused everyone from the funk!!
KKK
Who were they for? Why did they grow in power?
Why did they falter?

4. Foreign Flood
More immigrants entering-800,000 from S & E Europe
100% Americans upset---Emergency Quota Act of % of people of their nationality who had been in the US in 1910
Replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924-cut the 3% to 2% and the origin base shifted from 1910 to 1890-Advantage?
Completely shut out the Japanese-mass “hate America” rallies-Canada and L. America exempt
By 1931 more foreigners left than arrived
Left with a patchwork of ethnic communities
Labor union efforts hurt by immigrant differences-played upon by employers

5. Prohibition
Legal abolition popular in the South and West-opposition in the East
Prohibition was naïve
Peculiar conditions arose-repealed if enough broke the law
May have worked better if enforcement had started more strictly
Speakeasies replaced taverns/Home Brew
Success-bank savings increased and absenteeism dropped
Gangsterism
Prohibition led to crime-gangs grew who tried to control flow of alcohol-Chicago-Al Capone-1929 St Valentine’s Day Massacre-11 year sentence for income tax evasion
Prostitution, gambling and narcotics-organized crime take by 1930-$12-18 billion annually
Lindbergh Baby

6. Scope’s Trial
1920s-more states made kids stay in school until more than 1/4 graduated in 1920s
Science and medicine improved
Many states outlawed teaching of evolution
Tennessee-Scopes Trial?

11. Mass Consumption
Much of the 1920s saw prosperity-Sec of Treasury Andrew Mellon favored tax policies that favored the rich and capital investment
30 million cars in the US by 1930-major movement to buy on credit
Revolutionary work of Henry Ford?
Automobile industry and the spin off industry employed about 6 million by 1930
Social Impact?
Wright Bros-Dec trans airmail route by 1920
Charles Lindbergh-1927-Impact?

17. Radio
Marconi-1890s-Impact?
Hollywood
Major growth during the 1920s(1915-Birth of a Nation)
Propaganda in WWI
Contributions?
Dynamic Decade
By 1920-most lived in urban areas
Women found opportunities, growth of the sex industry-advertisement, birth control, Flappers, and Freud
Birth of Jazz and racial pride-Marcus Garvey
Harlem Renaissance!! Langston Hughes

18. Cultural Liberation
New writers after the war-breaking down of old moral codes-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bull Market
Speculation run rampant!!
Buying on Margin!!!
Little regulation by the Federal Government
Andrew Mellon pushed to lower taxes-Why? Trickle Down?