1920s

1920s

Red Scare
1. Sacco and Vanzetti
  1. Most controversial case against radical immigrants
  2. charged with murder in Massachusetts
  3. Political beliefs caused prejudice against them resulting in their conviction
2. Nativism
  1. fear of and opposition to foreigners
  2. resulted in stricter government regulation of immigration (quotas)
3. IWW
  1. was controlled by the Socialist Party
  2. organized strikes
  3. US Attorney Palmer made federal agends arrest more than 150 leaders of the IWW
Great Migration and Racial Tensions
1. Racial Tensions
  1. As African Americans moved North, many people feared they would take their jobs
  2. Segregated housing and ghettos were common in Northern cities
  3. African Americans were discriminated against in the North and South
2. Race Riots and Lynchings
  1. Violence and arson broke out in Northern and Southern cities
  2. Lynchings of African Americans were common
3. Ku Klux Klan
  1. Racist organization with a surge in membership after WWI
  2. Opposed African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, Jews
Popular Culture
1. Flappers
  1. 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote
  2. Young, modern woman who rejected old ways
  3. Had open attitudes about life, fashion, and sex
2. Economy of the 20s
  1. Many people had more money than before
  2. growth of automobile industry
  3. Mass consumption (consumerism), marketing, advertising, buying on credit
3. Popular Entertainment
  1. Roaring Twenties
  2. radio
  3. silent movies
4. Harlem Renaissance
  1. African American led cultural and artistic movement from New York City (Harlem)
  2. writers, musicians, artists, scholars
  3. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
5. Prohibition
  1. 18th Amendment banned alcohol
  2. bootleggers smuggled it in
  3. crimes and illegal activity increased

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