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1920’s ch. 31 review

1920’s ch. 31 review. Red Scare 1919-1920. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer “Fighting Quaker” The Palmer Raids- J.Edgar Hoover & Palmer presence of Communist party in the United States the Russian Revolution bomb scares and actual bombings labor strikes. Sacco & Vanzetti Case.

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1920’s ch. 31 review

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  1. 1920’sch. 31 review

  2. Red Scare 1919-1920 • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer “Fighting Quaker” • The Palmer Raids- J.Edgar Hoover & Palmer • presence of Communist party in the United States • the Russian Revolution • bomb scares and actual bombings • labor strikes

  3. Sacco & Vanzetti Case • 1920- Italian immigrants arrested * charged with robbery, murder * not proved guilty on evidence • Jury finds them guilty and sentence to death

  4. Events • KKK • promote white supremacy • Nordic Americans • Prohibition- 18th Amendment -1919 • the rise of organized crime • defiance of the law by large numbers of people • divisions in the Democratic party • widespread smuggling • Harlem Renaissance • Langston Hughes • Louis Armstrong

  5. _ John T. Scopes bio teacher fundamentalist’ discomfort with evolutionary science dispute between modernists and traditionalist in Tennessee Scopes Trial

  6. Final Ruling…. • “Nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre www.comdycentral.com

  7. People • Margaret Sanger • advocacy of birth control • Comstock Law 1873 banned in 1938 due to trial of Margaret Sanger

  8. Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth • Demonstrated that individualism was still alive in a modern American dominated by corporations and team players • Marcus Garvey • Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

  9. Laws • The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 • aimed at reducing childbirth mortality rates and infant mortality rates • Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 (National Origins Act) • Resentment of workers against foreign immigrants' taking jobs away from Americans • belief that immigrants were not assimilating • White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to bar immigrants of different racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds

  10. Automobiles • Effects • Changes in dating customs • Demands by voting public for more governmental funds for highways • The stimulation of industries connected to the automobile industry, such as batteries, steel, oil, glass, and rubber • The development of a motel industry

  11. A Mass Consumption Economy • American industries mastered art of production • 1920’s focused on consumption = birth of the advertising industry.

  12. “She was a beautiful girl and talented too. She had the advantages of education and better clothes than most girls of her set. She possessed that culture and poise that travel brings. Yet in the one pursuit that stands foremost in the mind of every girl and woman—marriage—she was a failure.”

  13. - wringer and washboard $5 - brushes and brooms $5 - sewing machine (mechanical) $25 washing machine $150 vacuum cleaner $ 50 sewing machine (electric) $ 60 Goods and Prices, 1900 and 19281900 1928

  14. Installment Plans = idea of buying on Credit

  15. “American consumers in the 1920s could purchase the latest household electrical appliances, such as a refrigerator, for as little as a dollar down and a dollar a week.” The American’s Chapter 12 sec. 3

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