Intolerable Acts: American Life in the "Roaring 20s

1. Identify: • Intolerable Acts

2. Chapter 31 American Life in the “Roaring 20s”

3. “Seeing Red” • Fear of Russia after 1917 revolution • “red scare”: 1919-1920 • Attorney General: Mitchell Palmer

4. Criminal Syndicalism Laws • State laws • Illegal to advocate the use of violence for social change • Freedom of speech restricted

5. “Americanism” • Antiforeignism and antiredism • Sacco and Vanzetti trial

6. Sacco and Vanzetti activity

7. KKK • Resurgence in 1920s • Intolerance and prejudice of American public

8. Klan • Anti-foreign • Anti-Catholic • Anti-black • Anti-Jewish • Anti-pacifist • Anti-Communist • Anti-internationalist • Antievolutionist • Anti-bootlegger • Antigambling • Anti-adultery • Anti-birth control

9. Klan • Pro-Anglo Saxon • Pro- “native” American • Pro-Protestant

10. Klan • Dies out in late 1920s when Klan officials get caught embezzling money

11. Immigration Reform

12. Emergency Quota Act of 1921 • Quota on number of European immigrants • 3% of people of the same nationality that were living in US in 1910

13. Immigration Act of 1924 • Replaced Quota Act • 3% to 2% • Japanese banned from coming to America • Canadians and Latin Americans exempt

14. Immigration Acts • Ended the age of “unrestricted” immigration to the US • Significantly reduced immigration

17. Prohibition

18. 18th Amendment- 1919 • Banned manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol • Volstead Act- enforces • Popular in the south and west

19. Prohibition lingo • Speakeasies= secret saloons • Bootleggers/rum runners • Moonshine

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21. Effects of Prohibition • Nascar • Violence • Organized Crime

22. Success? • Not enforced well, not enough manpower • Bank savings increased • Absenteeism in industry decreased

24. “Golden Age of Gangsterism” • Rival gangs fought over control of alcohol sales • Chicago: “Scarface” Al Capone • Gangs expanded to other “industries”: gambling, narcotics, prostitution, kidnapping for ransom • Lindbergh Law

25. Education • 1920s: more state focus on education • Progressive education: “learn by doing” and “education for life”

26. Evolution Controversy Fundamentalists • Conservatives • Evolution contributing to moral breakdown of youth • Destroying faith in God/Bible

27. Scopes “Monkey Trial” • John Scopes arrested in TN in 1925 for teaching evolution • Prosecuting attorney: William Jennings Bryan! • Found guilty, fined $100

28. Economics • Mass Consumption • Advertising

36. Sports • Baseball, basketball • Attendance increases • Babe Ruth

39. Credit • Increased personal debt • Economy vulnerable

41. Cars • Assembly line, mass-production • Detroit • Henry Ford, Model T • 1930, 20 million Model T’s being driven

43. Effects • More jobs • Gasoline • Railroad business hurt • Women less dependent on men • Suburbs grew • Death rates

44. Airplanes • 1903: Wright Brothers • WW1: planes used successfully • Private companies and passenger airlines

45. Charles Lindbergh

46. Amelia Earhart

47. Entertainment • Radio: 1920s • Movies: 1903 • Hollywood • Propaganda • Assimilation of immigrants

48. The Dynamic Decade • Margaret Sanger: birth control • Alice Paul: Equal Rights Amendment • Religion: Fundamentalists to Modernists • Sigmund Freud

49. Flappers