2. Adjusting to Peace The Red Scare
1917 Russia had their revolution to overthrow the Tsar.
Communists threatened to spread the revolution around the world.
“Red Scare”: brought panic to America

3. Adjusting to Peace Palmer Raids
Italian anarchist set off bomb outside Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s home many other judicial workers attacked believed was plot to overthrow government
All over fear of the Communist Revolution in Russia.

4. Adjusting to Peace Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Who: Two Italian immigrants; Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
What: convicted of murder
When: during a robbery
Why: anarchist revolution and fear of communism
Result: Found guilty and sentenced to death.

5. Journal #1
Write a brief description of a nativist in your journal and give an example of something he/she would do.
2-3 complete sentences

6. Adjusting to Peace Rise of Nationalism and Racism
Nativism: dislike of foreigners on the rise
Lead to new immigration restrictions
Ku Klux Klan: resurgence in 1915 with Great Migration and post WWI tensions. Did not like immigrants Catholics, Jews and African Americans
Lead to Chicago race riots

7. Red Summer: Race Riots
Longview!
Longview!

8. Three Republican Presidents: Republican Policies
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act 1930: highest tariff in US history.  Hoover
Lowered taxes on wealthy and corporations larger tax burden on average person
Relaxed on enforcement of antitrust laws

9. Three Republican Presidents: Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923
Sought to “return to normalcy” after WWI
Smaller foreign policy
More peacetime production at home.
Urged for rights of African-Americans and anti-lynching bills.
Resisted anti-Semitism as well
*Teapot Dome Scandal
Back room dealings and personal bribes for oil-rich lands by Cabinet member.

10. Spiral #1 This 1924 cartoon satirizes a scandal that lead to –
A. public disappointment over revelations of government corruption
B. widespread dissatisfaction with a lack of economic development
C. public frustration with government neglect of the working class
D. widespread anger over excessive partisan politics

11. Three Republican Presidents: Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
“Silent Cal”
No right to strike against the public safety.
Believed business of America is business.
Laissez-fare or hands off president

12. Three Republican Presidents: Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
As President, predicted an end to poverty.
*Believed in “rugged individualism.”
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Felt government interference should be minimal in the economy.

13. Quick reflection: Journal #2
What are 2 things that all these presidents had in common, ideas? Beliefs?

14. Reasons for Prosperity of 1920s Rise of Automobile
Cars allowed greater mobility to people
Model T priced at under $300. cheap!
Henry Ford: early manufacture who pioneered assembly line.

15. Reasons for Prosperity of 1920s: Other new Industries
Electricity and electrical appliances
Radio, motion pictures, vacuum cleaners.
Glenn Curtiss: Aviation pioneer who developed airplanes that landed on water.
Charles Lindbergh: First person to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean.

16. Journal #3
What modern day convenience could you not live without? Why? (CANNOT be a cell phone related.)
2-3 Sentences!

17. Reasons for Prosperity of 1920s: More Efficient Production Line
Assembly (production) Line
Mass production
Low cost
No formal education required
Standardized parts (Products identical)

18. Why is the car important to Americans?
Journal #4
Analyze this picture!
Why is the car able to be priced so low?
Why is the car important to Americans?

19. Reasons for Prosperity of 1920s: Age of Mass Consumption
Advertising stimulated demand
Retailers introduced installment buying buying on credit (personal use).
Speculation: purchase of any item, not for personal use, in the hope of selling it for a higher price (business use).

21. Journal #5 Are Credit cards important to life? Do we need them?
Explain in 2-3 complete sentences

22. Cultural Values in Conflict: Prohibition
18th Amendment banned production and consumption of alcoholic drinks
Social experiment was a failure. 21st Amendment ended Prohibition
Frances Willard: Women's Christian Temperance Union. Active in Temperance because her own brother was an alcoholic.

23. Cultural Values in Conflict
Scopes “Monkey Trial”(1925):
Pitted traditional Fundamentalist values against Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
William Jennings Bryan v. Clarence Darrow
Bryan: helped to prosecute John Scopes
Darrow: represented Scopes in trial

25. Cultural Values in Conflict: New Restrictions on Immigration
Growth in nativist sentiment
Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, 1929: Quotas on immigrants from Europe.

26. Cultural Values in Conflict: Eugenics
Pseudo-scientific belief that human race could be improved by breeding
Belief in superiority of Anglo-Sanxton “race” light skinned, blond-haired and blue-eyed people
*Charles Davenport: leader in eugenics movement.
Forced sterilization, segregation laws and marriage restriction
Closely tied to Social Darwinism

27. Breeding animals is morally correct.
Four Corners
Breeding animals is morally correct.

28. Impact of Prohibition Al Capone: Bootlegging Tax evasion Murder
“Gangsters” = Increase in organized crime!
No respect for the law.

29. Bonus Goes to Jail for not paying his taxes
What amendment was about taxes?

30. Babe Ruth Changed the Game of Baseball Cultural icon
Hit 714 homeruns-made the homerun fun
60 in one year-Record until recently
Had more Homeruns by himself than 5 teams combined
Once called his shot, pointed at a place he was going to hit a homerun to and then did it.
He is the reason why you have to run the bases after hitting a homerun. Babe used to just walk back to the dugout!

31. Jack Dempsey Great Boxer Destroyed many of his opponents
Was the Rhonda Rousey before she lost!

32. Emergence of New Values in 1920s: Tin Pan Alley
Section in NYC where song-writing and musical ideas mixed together with popular American music like jazz, blues, and ragtime. Jazz age!

33. Emergence of New Values in 1920s: Women
19th Amendment
“Flappers”: greater independence
new morals and manners.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged…on account of sex.”
Why is this significant to women?
Can have a say in their future and livelihood
BUT does this give African American women the right to vote? : NO
Why?: Not seen as equal Americans

35. Emergence of New Values in 1920s: Youth and Lost Generation
Fads: flagpole sitting, marathon dancing.
Rejected desire for material wealth
Sinclair Lewis: Wrote Main Street and Babbit wrote about strong women
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wrote The Great Gatsby, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age.

36. Emergence of New Values in 1920s: Harlem Renaissance
New optimism and growth of African-American culture.
Jazz Age
Langston Hughes: poet and novelist
Alain Locke: Black historian
Marcus Garvey: Believed in black-owned businesses; Back to Africa Movement. Created the UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association