1920s Culture

Flu of 1918 (Spanish Flu)

Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

Election of 1920

Schenk v US Abrams v US Alien Act of

1918 Sedition Act

of 1918 Sacco and

Vanzetti Case A. Mitchell

Palmer and the Palmer Raids

Red Scare

Boston Police Strike, Coal Miners Strike

Labor Unrest

Birth of Nation: D.W. Griffiths http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=k57rt58vUYw&feature=related

Rise of the Klan

Immigration Quota Act of 1921 Immigration Act of 1924 Movement in to cultural and ethnic enclaves

Nativism

Culture of Consumption

Jazz Agehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339ixMtHrVkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdZ_HETRr4

Flappers

Age of Film

Golden Age of Radio

1920s Heros

Prohibition “The Noble Experiment”

Mafia

Age of Flight

Lost Generation and American Literature "You are all a lost generation." The Sun Also Rises,

American Art

Scopes Monkey Trial

Clarence Darrow

Harlem Renaissance

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America

Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the        flow of human blood in human veins.

 My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I danced in the Nile when I was oldI built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln        went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy        bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. “ ” "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1920)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Creation of Bureau of the Budget: helps prepare the budget with the president

Buying stocks “on margin” Andrew Mellon and the Mellonites: argued

against high taxes for the wealthy

Bull Market “Never sell America short”