Today Bruns talked about the 1920's... Here's some stuff we have to know about it.
- 5. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.(Ch. 12-13)
-Roaring 20's-entertainment
Automobiles and electricity came in, entertained people's lives.
-Red Scare
Took place after WW1.
*We feared we'd be communist; that immagrants would come into our country and be communist. Fear of communison. US passed immigration laws to restrict immigrants from coming in. Fredrich Engels came up with the theory of communison. They thought that the people who were poor should overtake the government and rich people so that there were no classes and everyone was equal. It sounded good but it really wasn't because they don't have the freedom of speech and other things. Vladmir Leinn was the first communist. They called it the red scare because of the red flag of the soviet union. We did these Palmer Rads as a response to the red scare. They went after radicals, socialist, communists, and they would deport them. J. Edgar Hoover was the head of FBI. Palmer house was bombed out. Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrants, they're italians and they were anarchists. They shot and killed the guy who paid them. The only proof was the gun they had that was Sacco's. They were convicted and killed. Because of the fear of radicals were killed. KKK were anti black and anti radical and communists - huge popularity - known for hanging and killing african americans in the south, or catholics or immigrants or radicals.
-Republican Domination
Laissez Fairre means that government was going to do as little as possible and interferr as little as possible too. Presidents in the 20's undid Laissez Fairre because they thought the government should do more with the people.
Do nothing - government did nothing to help
Trickle Down Theory - Helped the wealthy and it trickled down to the poor.
Presidents were - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
-War Prevention
-Automobile/Airplane
-Prohibition
-Science vs Religion
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