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Chapter 24 The Jazz Age

Chapter 24 The Jazz Age. Section 1 Time of Turmoil. RECALL…. Russian Revolution. Treaty of Versailles. Key Terms. c apitalism – an economic system based on private property & free enterprise a narchist – people who b elieve there should be no government (bombings

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Chapter 24 The Jazz Age

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  1. Chapter 24The Jazz Age Section 1 Time of Turmoil

  2. RECALL… Russian Revolution Treaty of Versailles

  3. Key Terms • capitalism – an economic system based on private property & free enterprise • anarchist – people who believe there • should be no government (bombings • frightened Americans) • deport – to be expelled from a country

  4. The Red Scare A period when the government went after “Reds”or Communists….

  5. A. Mitchell Palmer/J. Edgar Hoover *Arrested or deported people suspected of being Communists / anarchists *ransacked homes, offices, and seized records

  6. Sacco and Vanzetti Two men accused of robbing a shoe factory and killing a guard and paymaster. Police arrested…they were tried & convicted – sentenced to death by electric chair. (Sacco proven guilty in 1961)

  7. Strike – steel workers • Higher wages • Eight-Hour work day • 350,000 workers went on strike

  8. Strike – policemen in Boston 1919 What happened???

  9. Governor Calvin Coolidge “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.” Policemen fired…

  10. A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood Union of Sleeping Car Porters, 1930s He later will become a leader of civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s

  11. Marcus Garvey • Opposed integration • Supported a back-to-Africa • movement in the 1920s • Gained great influence • among the urban poor “to be a Negro is no disgrace, but an honor.” “He taught African Americans to admire and praise black things and black people.”

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