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1 American Life in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 31

2 Return to Simpler Times; Normalcy  President Warren G. Harding Red Scare; Communists, Radicals, Atheists, Anarchists  Mitchell Palmer; Palmer Raids (unions) Nicola Sacco v Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1921) Nativism; 2 nd Wave KKK; W.A.S.P –BUT- declined… Why?

3 Immigration Rises (Europe); American’s Reaction? Emergency Quota Act (1921); 3% population of 1910 Immigration Act of 1924; 2% of 1890; -BUT- Japanese immigrants suffer.

4 Prohibition; 18 th Amendment (1919); Wets V Dries; Volstead Act Bootleggers and Speakeasies Gang Wars of the 1920s; Crime, Prostitution and other drugs Lindbergh Law; Al Capone  Scarface

5 Education; John Dewey  Learn by doing; interactive Scopes Trial/ Monkey Trial; John T. Scopes William Jennings Bryan/ Clarence Darrow Science vs. Religion

6 Economy; Andrew Mellon (Treasury); Rapid Expansion The Car; Henry Ford  Model T; Ransom Olds  Oldsmobile Ford Revolutionizes; assembly line, mass production, affordable, wages, new work week More money, time, mobility  1. Advertisements; persuasion, seduction, tactic 2. Leisure; shopping, sports, movies

7 Credit; Installments; Measuring Success?; Who is buying more?; Uneven distribution Bull Market; Margin Buying; Gamble; Over-speculation Issue with Farmers; WWI and now?; Post-War Boom?; Fundamentalists Mellon; Reduced taxes on rich  falls on middle class

8 Movies; Hollywood, Flappers, Charlie Chaplin, Silent; Talkies  The Jazz Singer Radio; household item; KDKA  Superman, Lone Ranger, Sports, Etc..; traditions lost Literature; Lost Generation; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway; Jaded

9 Era of Celebration; Jaded; Charles Lindbergh Margaret Sanger; Birth Control; Planned Parenthood Women; 19 th Amendment; Flappers; Liberated/ Modern Woman; Anti-Tradition Fundamentalists (rural) v. Modernists (urban)

10 Music; The Jazz Age; Harlem Renaissance (Rebirth); Celebration of Culture Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith  The Cotton Club  Jazz bridges races Popular Dances; Charleston, Foxtrot Marcus Garvey; Return to Africa Movement; Segregation; United Negro Association; Deported


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