American Life in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 31
Return to Simpler Times; Normalcy  President Warren G. Harding
Red Scare; Communists, Radicals, Atheists, Anarchists  Mitchell Palmer; Palmer Raids (unions)
Nicola Sacco v Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1921)
Nativism; 2nd Wave KKK; W.A.S.P –BUT- declined… Why?
Immigration Rises (Europe); American’s Reaction?
Emergency Quota Act (1921); 3% population of 1910
Immigration Act of 1924; 2% of 1890; -BUT- Japanese immigrants suffer.
Prohibition; 18th Amendment (1919); Wets V Dries; Volstead Act
Bootleggers and Speakeasies
Gang Wars of the 1920s; Crime, Prostitution and other drugs
Lindbergh Law; Al Capone  Scarface
Education; John Dewey Learn by doing; interactive
Scopes Trial/ Monkey Trial; John T. Scopes
William Jennings Bryan/ Clarence Darrow
Science vs. Religion
Economy; Andrew Mellon (Treasury); Rapid Expansion
The Car; Henry Ford Model T; Ransom Olds Oldsmobile
Ford Revolutionizes; assembly line, mass production, affordable, wages, new work week
More money, time, mobility 1. Advertisements; persuasion, seduction, tactic
2. Leisure; shopping, sports, movies
Credit; Installments; Measuring Success?; Who is buying more?; Uneven distribution
Bull Market; Margin Buying; Gamble; Over-speculation
Issue with Farmers; WWI and now?; Post-War Boom?; Fundamentalists
Mellon; Reduced taxes on rich  falls on middle class
Movies; Hollywood, Flappers, Charlie Chaplin, Silent; Talkies  The Jazz Singer
Radio; household item; KDKA Superman, Lone Ranger, Sports, Etc..; traditions lost
Literature; Lost Generation; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway; Jaded
Era of Celebration; Jaded; Charles Lindbergh
Margaret Sanger; Birth Control; Planned Parenthood
Women; 19th Amendment; Flappers; Liberated/ Modern Woman; Anti-Tradition
Fundamentalists (rural) v. Modernists (urban)
Music; The Jazz Age; Harlem Renaissance (Rebirth); Celebration of Culture
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith  The Cotton Club  Jazz bridges races
Popular Dances; Charleston, Foxtrot
Marcus Garvey; Return to Africa Movement; Segregation; United Negro Association; Deported