1. Understanding Post-War Tensions

2. What do you think of when you think of the 20s?
Volstead Act
fads of the 20s

5. The Postwar Economic Downturn
Factories closed
Women and African-Americans lost jobs--given to soldiers
Strikes
Racial tensions—race riots 1919

7. crooked cabinet members
Political Scandals
Warren G. Harding
Corrupt— worst Pres.
crooked cabinet members
Teapot Dome Scandal—Sec. of Interior Albert Fall leased U.S. Navy’s petroleum reserves to private interests for a bribe

9. Low pay—long hours led to unsuccessful strikes Unions decline
Labor Unrest
Low pay—long hours led to unsuccessful strikes
Unions decline
Organized labor linked to Communism
New immigrants from Russia and E. Europe feared as Communists

11. Communist Party has 2 parts—political action vs. strikes & education
Radicals and Bombs
Communist Party has 2 parts—political action vs. strikes & education
Anarchists try to get message across through bombings
Blamed on Communists

12. p. 629 Geography Skill builder
Bell work
p. 629 Geography Skill builder

14. Red Scare “Palmer Raids”—arrest and deport communists
Anti-Immigration Laws
1921 Johnson Act--
Limits on S & E. Europe
3% of # living in U.S. in 1910
1924 National Origins Act—2% of 1890
ACLU—represent rights

16. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Robbery & murder
Anarchists and Italian immigrants
Flimsy evidence but no alibis
Get the death penalty
Victims of gov’t repression and xenophobia (fear of foreigners)

19. Against Asians, Mexicans, Jews, African-Americans
Rising Intolerance
Against Asians, Mexicans, Jews, African-Americans
New KKK—must be white Protestant to be a “true American”
Leads to violence “swift judgment”—race riots, lynchings

22. Science vs. Religion debate
Evolution vs. Creationism
Scopes Trial “monkey trial”
Scopes taught evolution/ACLU defends
Wm. J. Bryan witness for prosecution
Clarence Darrow for defense

23. T  W  E  N  T  I S
Create an acrostic on the twenties with illustrations for each line.
(Each line should describe a different aspect of the 20s from the notes)