1. Chapter 23 The Roaring 20’s

2. Time of Turmoil Post WWI Treaty of Versailles Congress does not ratify 18 th Amendment, Prohibition, 1920 19 th Amendment, Women Vote 1922 Mussolini in Italy

3. The Red Scare Attorney General A.. Mitchell Palmer J. Edgar Hoover Arrest Communists and Anarchists Deportation Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Sentenced to death, anarchists Guilty????

4. Labor unrest 2,500 strikes, 1919 Steel Workers Strike, 350,000 Labeled “Red Agitators” Boston Police Strike Governor Calvin Coolidge fires the force Public Support

5. Racial Unrest Northern Migration 1919, 70 Lynched in the South Chicago, stoning of black youth Swimming in Lake Michigan Riots, 2 weeks 15 Whites, 23 African Americans dead

6. Marcus Garvey “Back to Africa” movement Pride in being black Target Urban Poor Start Minority Business

7. Desire for Normalcy Warren Harding/Calvin Coolidge Republicans win 1920 1 st election with women voting Appointed Ohio friends Teapot Dome Scandal 1 st cabinet member convicted Symbol of corruption

8. Harding Dies Coolidge sworn in by his father Went back to sleep Honesty returns to White House “Silent Cal” Best Government/Least Government Supports Business

9. 1924 Election Coolidge wins Two female Governors Nellie Taylor Ross, Wyoming Miriam Ferguson, Texas

10. Foreign Policy Do not join League of Nations Isolationism Five-Power Treaty U.S., Japan, England, France, Italy Limit Naval Size First agreement to disarm

11. Kellogg-Briand Pact Called for outlawing war Initially 14 nations 48 more sign on No enforcement power Pull troops from Dominican, Nicaragua

12. A Booming Economy Recession, rising prices for two years Gross National Product (GNP) rises Immigration Quotas American Federation of Labor- less immigration 600,000 limit from Europe National Origins Quota Act- 150,000 limit

13. Economy 1920- 8.25 million cars 1927 20 million Ford, Model T General Motors- more choice 1928 70% have electricity Silent movies popular Radio- Presidential election 1924

14. Art and Literature The Harlem Renaissance Poetry Langston Hughes W.E.B Du Bois’s, The Crisis, encouraged Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, “Duke” Ellington Writing Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Time magazine

15. The Klan Hire Promoters 1923, Klan decline David Stephenson, leader imprisoned The Scopes Trial John T. Scopes Taught Evolution Clarence Darrow, Defense Lawyer Scopes Guilty

16. Sports College Football Boxing, “Jack” Dempsey Baseball, The National Sport 1919, “Black Sox” Scandal Babe Ruth, 1927 60 home runs

17. 1927 Charles Lindbergh, solo across the Atlantic “The Spirit of St. Louis” Al Jolson, “The Jazz Singer” 1 st sound movie Ford, The Model A, buy on credit Coolidge will not run again