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AP Chapter 32 1920s-Isolation, little immigration, laissez-faire, standard of living rose, new techs & products, leisure and entertainment Reds Hysterical fears-Bolshevik Revolution Strike in Seattle-1919-----Billy Sunday Red Scare-1919-1920 A. Mitchell Palmer Bomb of Palmer’s House-alien shipped to Russia-Bomb on Wall Street-38 dead State Legislature in New York-5 Socialists were not seated Sacco and Vanzetti KKK-Who were they for?
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Immigrant Flood-800,000 in 1920-21-Eastern Europe Emergency Quota Act of 1921(3% of 1910 nationality population) Immigration Act of 1924(2% of 1890 nationality population) Prohibition Legal abolition popular in the South Difficult to stop-Peculiar conditions arose Some Success? Gangsterism Prohibition led to crime By 1930-$12-18 billion Lindbergh baby
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Scope’s Trial 1920s-more states making kids stay in school More than 1/4 were graduating from high school Fire from fundamentalists-States outlawed teaching of Evolution Tennessee-John Scopes indicted for teaching evolution Bryan vs. Darrow
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