1. Warm-up:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." -First Amendment to the Constitution
Choose one of the five rights that you believe is the most important and explain why you believe it the most important.

2. New Era of Intolerance

3. Prohibition-18th Amendment
Illegal manufacture & distribution of alcohol
Bootlegging
Smuggling
Home stills
Speakeasies
Illegal bars
Membership required
Organized Crime
Al Capone
Gambling
Prostitution
Racketeering

5. Religious Fundamentalism
Modernists
Darwin’s theory of evolution
Science and technology
Fundamentalists
Literal interpretation of the Bible
Scope’s Trial (Monkey Trial)
Teaching of evolution in schools on trial

7. African Americans Northern migration for jobs Race riots
Ku Klux Klan re-emerges
target Catholics, Jews, immigrants & African Americans
NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
A. Philip Randolph
Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.
Marcus Garvey

9. The Red Scare Russian Revolution/Communist Threat
Caused people to fear communism
Communist International
Lenin’s attempt to overthrow capitalists
Palmer Raids
Schenck vs US ; Supreme court case; if there is a “clear and present danger” government can silence free speech
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Anarchists
Two Italian immigrants who had radical beliefs/ accused and executed
Many people believed that communists were behind the labor strikes in 1919

11. Immigration Rise in numbers after the war Emergency Quota Act 1921
Limited to 3% of nationalities here in 1910
No Asians (Chinese Exclusion Act 1882)
Immigration Act 1924
Lowered to 2% of nationalities here in 1890
Reduced Africans, Asians, Australia, Europe
Rise of Western Hemisphere immigrants
Mexicans

13. Native Americans
Granted citizenship in 1924 by Congress

14. Activity: What does this cartoon represent?
7 sentence paragraph: use information from the notes