1. Problems in the 1920s

2. British poster during WWI asking people to preserve food.
Supply and demand
U.S. farmers sold farm products to the European powers in large numbers.
Due to an increase in scarcity, the price of U.S. farm goods increased. + =
British poster during WWI asking people to preserve food. + =
Demand
Supply
Price

3. Supply and demand During World War I: Europeans needed food.
They bought U.S. farm products.
U.S. farm prices increased.
U.S. farmers borrowed money to buy more land and supplies.

4. Supply and demand After World War I:
Europeans began to produce their own food again.
The demand for U.S. farm products decreased.
U.S. farm prices decreased.
Farmers could not repay their debts.

5. Supply and demand
Workers went on strike when wages did not increase along with prices.

6. Scopes (Monkey)Trial
John Scopes, a Tennessee teacher, taught his students about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in violation of state law.
Clarence Darrow defended Scopes
Scopes was convicted and fined, and the law against teaching the theory of evolution remained.

7. KKK
The goals of the resurrected Ku Klux Klan were to preserve the U.S. for white native-born Protestants.
Targeted immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans.
Ku Klux Klan members parading along Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., Aug. 18, 1925

8. 1925 Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, D.C.

10. The Ku Klux Klan reached its greatest strength in the 1920’s,
with a membership of over three million people.

11. Red Scare People feared a communist revolution would occur in the U.S.
Since many anarchists were immigrants, discrimination against immigrants increased.
During the Red Scare, thousands of supposed communists and anarchists were arrested.

12. Red Scare
Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti were charged with robbery and murder in 1920.
Sacco and Vanzetti were admitted anarchists, but claimed that they had not committed any crimes.

13. Protest to save Sacco and Vanzetti in London, England in 1921.

14. Red Scare
With little evidence against them, Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death in
Electric Chair
"Sacco was guilty but Vanzetti was innocent"

15. Immigration The Emergency Quota Act of 1921
quota system allowing only a certain number of people from each country into the U.S.
These laws were pushed by Nativists:
Those who wanted to keep America, American

16. Immigration The law favored Protestant nations from Northern Europe.
* However, people from the Western Hemisphere were unaffected by the quota, and thousands of Mexicans and Canadians entered the U.S.