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Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties

Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties. Oh no, it’s COMMUNISM. Russia turns to Soviet Union and Communism in 1917 What is communism? a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

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Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties

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  1. Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties

  2. Oh no, it’s COMMUNISM • Russia turns to Soviet Union and Communism in 1917 • What is communism? • a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed • Simulation?

  3. Red Scare • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • Rooted out radicals, socialists, communists, anarchists • House was bombed • Led to anti- communist hysteria • Liberals and radicals not wanted in USA • Led to many conservative victories

  4. Anti- Immigration • Sacco and Vanzetti • Arrested and killed for murder • Murky details of case, probably innocent? • Shows anti immigration and anti radical feelings

  5. KKK • More “pro-white” than anti- African American • WASP- White Anglo Saxon Protestant • 5 million join in 20s • Popular in “bible belt” of south • Birth of A Nation

  6. Stopping Immigration • New Immigrants never really liked • Emergency Quota Act- restrictions • Immigration Act- more restrictions • Immigration Act 1924- no Japanese • Randolph Bourne and Horace Kallen led attacks on anti- immigration crusades

  7. Questions! • Why were we so fearful of Communism? • How did America's nativism and isolationism get out of control? • Construct an argument of a Nativist who supports anti- immigration measures. • What are the underplaying cause and effects of this anti- foreign attitude? Make a chart.

  8. Prohibition • 18th Amendment/ 21st Amendment • Largely ignored • Speakeasies, bootlegging, mafia • Led to increased organized crime, more binge drinking • Benefits • Bank savings went up, skipping work went down, spousal abuse down, public drunkenness down

  9. Gangsters • Bribery, wars, murder, bootlegging • Al Capone was most famous • Murdered as many as 30, jailed for tax evasion • After Prohibition ended- gambling, drugs, etc • Kidnapping was big as well • Charles Lindbergh’s baby

  10. Scopes Trial • Darwinism a fairly new idea • Taught by John Scopes to challenge the law that said it can’t be taught • ACLU backed him • Fundamentalists hated Darwinism • William J. Bryan won the case • Fundamentalism wins

  11. Mass- Economy • Giant industries sparked by automobile • Henry Ford used assembly line • Model T first affordable car • Advertising became necessary • Sports were big business

  12. Transportation • Impacts of Mass- Production of Cars • Gasoline industry, new car companies, Detroit, millions of jobs, oil production, urban sprawl, road construction, schools larger, deaths, freedoms • Airplanes • Wright brothers- 1903 • Lindbergh- 1927 across ocean • War

  13. Radio • KDKA first radio station in USA • 1920’s TV • Famous shows and actors • Sports more popular • News more accessible

  14. Movies • 1903- first movie “The Great Train Robbery” • 1915- “Birth of a Nation” KKK movie • Anti- German Propaganda in WWI • 1927- The Jazz Singer was first “talkie” • Standardized American Culture • Everybody from all cultures watching and hearing and ultimately enjoying the same thing led to a unique American Culture instead of fragmentations of various European cultures….

  15. DO NOW! • Read page 738- The Dynamic Decade and list all progressive/ liberal happenings in the 1920s

  16. Culture • People to know: • F. Scott Fitzgerald- Great Gatsby • Ernest Hemmingway- A Farewell To Arms • William Faulkner- The Sound and The Fury • Frank Lloyd Wright- Architect • Things to know: • Harlem Renaissance, Lost Generation, Greenwich Village, Architecture

  17. CRASH! • Speculation, over production, credit drove economy out of control • One day of panic selling started a domino effect that created the Great Depression

  18. Questions • Were the 1920s liberal or conservative? • What was the biggest contribution to American culture and society during the 1920s?

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