The 1920's!!!

1. The 1920's!!!

2. Two new laws were passed to limit the number of immigrants that came into the country: Emergency Quota Act of 1921 & National Origins Act of 1924

3. Uncle Sam Immigrants vicious Aliens Whose country is this anyway?

4. Red Scare After the communists/Bolsheviks took over Russia, capitalists all over the world were scared. Why? The communists say they want world domination and that is bad news for rich people because they will have to give up their wealth and share it with the workers of the world. Capitalism: “Hey there, you’re taking over one sixth of the world?” Labor: “Yes, and the job is not finished yet.”

5. A C N A H Y R It means no rules or organization. Someone who follows anarchy is an anarchist. They do not believe in following or having any government.

6. A. Mitchell Palmer As Attorney General of the U.S. he hunted down “suspected” communists and anarchists and either arrested them or booted them out of the country. He did not care if he violated their civil rights, he was out for power and fame (i.e. the Presidency.)

7. Bartolomeo Vanzetti Nicola Sacco Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder. They were convicted, found guilty and sentenced to death. Both were anarchists and Italian immigrants. Many believe they were found guilty and sentenced to death because of their race and political beliefs, not because of the evidence.

8. Warren G. Harding (R) 1921 - 1923: Promised a return to “normalcy.” He believed in laissez faire economics and isolationism as a foreign policy. His presidency was racked with scandal. The most important of these was the Teapot Dome scandal. Harding died in office. Some believe he was murdered to keep his mouth shut about scandals during his administration.

9. Teapot Dome Scandal 1924 1. Secretary Of Interior Albert Fall gets US Navy to transfer oil rich land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California over to his department. 2. Although this oil rich land was for the US Navy’s own use, Secretary Fall sold this land to private oil companies. In return these private oil companies paid Fall money for picking them. 3. Fall was caught and convicted, but was later acquitted.

10. CalvinCoolidge (R) 1923-1929: His first priority was to clean up Washington DC. To get rid of the dirt bags under Harding was job number one. He too was a laissez faire economist and isolationist in foreign policy. He would keep doing what Harding was doing minus the scandal. “The business of America is business.”

11. KKK In the 1920’s, Klan membership skyrocketed. The Klan hated blacks, any non-white immigrant, Catholics, union members, Jews and anyone else not fitting their philosophy. Their membership grew to over 5 million and expanded beyond the South and into the Midwest. Their membership included five US senators and 4 governors. However, as fast as their membership grew, it shrank by the end of the decade to less than 9000 members mostly do to scandal.

12. Henry Ford is going to help mass produce the Model T. At first it will take about 12 1/2 hours to assemble one, but with the introduction of the moving assembly line, it will take only 90 minutes to assemble.

13. The automobile is going to change the country’s culture and geography. Economically the automobile is going to have a huge impact. All the materials needed to build a car will grow because of this impact. What do you need to build a car? Model T

14. The Moving Assembly Line Each person has one task that they repeat over and over and over. Instead of going to their work, the work comes to them on a conveyor belt. This allows Ford to mass produce his model T. It also cuts down costs for him making it cheaper for the consumer.

15. Prohibition 18th Amendment: 1919 The selling, transporting and making of booze was illegal.

16. Volstead Act Enforced the 18th Amendment. Remember, if you don’t enforce the law, no one will follow the law.

17. Speakeasies sprang up as soon as the Volstead Act was passed. A speakeasy was a place where people drank illegally.

18. Whadda yooz lookin’ at? Al Capone a.k.a Scarface Crime Boss and booze smuggler. His gang killed 400, he killed 40 himself. He was convicted of tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to 11 years behind bars.

19. St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1929 Crime actually increased because of prohibition. Here in Chicago, Capone’s north side gang gunned down Bugs Moran’s south side gang. Moran’s gang was waiting for a hijacked truck of whiskey. Capone’s men, dressed as cops, showed up and lined Moran’s men up against the wall. Moran’s gang thought they were being busted, but instead…..

21. Fundamentalism vs. Evolution

22. Fundamentalism: The literal interpretation of the Bible.

23. Evolution: The belief that man evolved from apes.

24. American Civil Liberties Union Challenges the constitutionality of laws that violate the Bill of Rights. The ACLU was created in response to A. Mitchell Palmer’s reckless acts.

25. Scopes Trial 1925 John Scopes was a biology teacher in Tennessee. He taught evolution not fundamentalism when it came to the origins of humans. His attorney was Clarence Darrow, an agnostic, (someone who says the existence of God cannot be proven.) The prosecutor was William Jennings Bryan, a fundamentalist. Scopes was found guilty but released on a technicality.

26. Oh my God! Who? Clarence Darrow Agnostic William Jennings Bryan Fundamentalist

27. Flappers Young women in the 1920’s broke away from traditional values and did their own thing. Flappers cut their hair short, (bobbed,) wore less clothing, smoked in public, swore openly and drank bootleg liquor.

28. 19th Amendment With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women were finally given the right to vote.

29. Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of Saint Louis across the Atlantic from New York to Paris non-stop in 1927. Charles Lindbergh

30. RADIO In 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts the first radio program. The radio is going to become the mass media tool for the next 30 years only later to be replaced by the TV in the 1950’s. Because of the radio, advertisement will become more common and so will the rise of spectator sports such as boxing, baseball, and football.

31. Jack Dempsey Babe Ruth Red Grange Gertrude Ederle

32. Herbert Hoover (R) 1929 - 1933: He will continue the economic and foreign policies of Harding and Coolidge. He went up against Al Smith (D) in 1928 and won. Why? Smith was against prohibition, an Irish immigrant and Catholic. Hoover was Protestant, for prohibition and born in this country.

33. Paul Robeson made it big on Broadway in New York. He would go on to be an activist for African American causes. Charlie Chaplain made it big in the movies as a comedian.

34. The first movie with sound, or “talkie” was the Jazz Singer. It starred Al Jolson who was a white Lithuanian immigrant who put on black make up and acted as a black minstrel singer.

35. The Lost Generation Young artist such as poets and writers, became disillusioned with America and materialism. Some big names of the day were F. Scott Fitzgerald, pictured here, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost and Georgia O’Keefe.

36. Marcus Garvey A Jamaican immigrant who urged African Americans to look within their own culture for dignity and pride. He set up the Black Star Line Steamship Company to ship African Americans back to Africa. He was found guilty of defrauding his followers and was booted out of the country. He would greatly influence Malcolm X.

37. GHETTO A segregated slum of a city.

38. Harlem An urban ghetto located in New York City. It is the largest African American community in the country.

39. Harlem Renaissance African Americans expressed their culture in music, (jazz and blues), poetry and art work. This proved to be an invaluable way of expressing their feelings towards racial prejudice and intolerance. The Harlem Renaissance would gain wide spread popularity and spread to other major cities having large African American populations.

40. Langston Hughes The most famous of the African American writers/poets during the Harlem Renaissance, he expressed his views and feelings about racial oppression in his writings.

41. J A Z Z Originating from African American Blues and West African musical rhythms, jazz will sweep the country. One of the name s given the 1920’s was the Jazz Age. Here is a picture of Duke Ellington and his band. Another famous musician was Louis Armstrong.