1. Chapter 32
The Roaring Twenties

2. Communism in America
“Red Scare” – , At. Gen. Palmer leads charge
Restricted free speech
Anti-redism and anti-foreignism

3. Ku Klux Klan
antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control.
5 million members
Collapsed in the late 1920s due to embezzlement and the Grand Dragon was convicted of murder

4. Conservative Reaction to Change
Conservative Right vs. Modernist Left
Prohibitionist
Nativists
Fundamentalists

5. Immigration-laws aimed at curbing incoming immigrants
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Ended unrestricted immigration
Set a 3% limit each nation based on 1910 census
Immigration National Origins Act-1924
Set limit at 2% based on 1890 census, aimed at Southern and Eastern European and Asian immigrants

6. Prohibition 18th amendment in 1919 Volstead Act, 1920
Ineffective, Unenforced
Smuggling
Speakeasies

8. Coors Sold malted milk to the Mars Candy Corp.
“near beer” – non alcoholic beer
Porcelain
One of the only breweries to survive

9. Gangsters Wanted control of booze market
Involved in prostitution, gambling, drugs, and kidnapping
Al Capone most famous
Sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

10. A Fight over Evolution
Christian Fundamentalist want the teaching of evolution to be banned
John Scopes, biology teacher goes to trial
State of TN hires WJ Bryan
Scopes found guilty but later overturned

11. Automobile Led to industrial revolution in the 1920s Henry Ford
Model T (black only)
20million by 1930
Led to many new jobs/industries

12. Cultural Revolution
Lindberg became 1st man to fly solo across the Atlantic
“Spirit of St. Louis”
Radiobroadcasts – education
Motion pictures
WWI propaganda
Margaret Sanger – birth control movement
Sigmund Freud
Sexual repression

13. The Lost Generation Authors and poets
Not pleased with the consumerism of the 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Erza Pound, Earnest Hemingway

14. Literature WWI led to an increase of literature
H.L. Mencken attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in his monthly American Mercury.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:The Great Gatsby in 1925.
Earnest Hemingway
He responded to propaganda and the overblown appeal to patriotism. 
He wrote of disillusioned, spiritually numb American expatriates in Europe in The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Sinclair Lewis wrote Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922).
Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio (1919).
Architecture also became popular as materialism and functionalism increased-Frank Lloyd Wright

15. Harlem Renaissance Center of African American culture
Changed perception of African
Americans, greater social
consciousness of abilities of ALL
Writers and musicians
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington