American Life in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 31

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Immigration Rises (Europe); American’s Reaction? Emergency Quota Act (1921); 3% population of 1910 Immigration Act of 1924; 2% of 1890; -BUT- Japanese immigrants suffer.

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American Life in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 31 Return to Simpler Times; Normalcy President Warren G. Harding Red Scare; Communists, Radicals, Atheists, Anarchists Mitchell Palmer; Palmer Raids (unions) Nicola Sacco v Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1921) Nativism; 2 nd Wave KKK; W.A.S.P BUT- declined Why? Immigration Rises (Europe); Americans Reaction? Emergency Quota Act (1921); 3% population of 1910 Immigration Act of 1924; 2% of 1890; -BUT- Japanese immigrants suffer. Prohibition; 18 th Amendment (1919); Wets V Dries; Volstead Act Bootleggers and Speakeasies Gang Wars of the 1920s; Crime, Prostitution and other drugs Lindbergh Law; Al Capone Scarface Education; John Dewey Learn by doing; interactive Scopes Trial/ Monkey Trial; John T. Scopes William Jennings Bryan/ Clarence Darrow Science vs. Religion Economy; Andrew Mellon (Treasury); Rapid Expansion The Car; Henry Ford Model T; Ransom Olds Oldsmobile Ford Revolutionizes; assembly line, mass production, affordable, wages, new work week More money, time, mobility 1. Advertisements; persuasion, seduction, tactic 2. Leisure; shopping, sports, movies Credit; Installments; Measuring Success?; Who is buying more?; Uneven distribution Bull Market; Margin Buying; Gamble; Over-speculation Issue with Farmers; WWI and now?; Post-War Boom?; Fundamentalists Mellon; Reduced taxes on rich falls on middle class Movies; Hollywood, Flappers, Charlie Chaplin, Silent; Talkies The Jazz Singer Radio; household item; KDKA Superman, Lone Ranger, Sports, Etc..; traditions lost Literature; Lost Generation; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway; Jaded Era of Celebration; Jaded; Charles Lindbergh Margaret Sanger; Birth Control; Planned Parenthood Women; 19 th Amendment; Flappers; Liberated/ Modern Woman; Anti-Tradition Fundamentalists (rural) v. Modernists (urban) Music; The Jazz Age; Harlem Renaissance (Rebirth); Celebration of Culture Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith The Cotton Club Jazz bridges races Popular Dances; Charleston, Foxtrot Marcus Garvey; Return to Africa Movement; Segregation; United Negro Association; Deported