the roaring twenties:
economy was booming
cars
radios
cities got electricity
brought entertainment to people
sports became big
automobiles
sewing machines
advertising to let people know about all of the new technology
great period of time
a lot of it was not based on reality
-Roaring 20's
-entertainment
-Red Scare:
what is it: (1919-1920) in response to russia becoming communist; we feared we might become communist; organization trained people to go into countries and try and get them to become communist (cold war starts here)
what did US do in response: immigration laws are passed- restrict them in fear of them being communist; socca venzetti case; kkk; palmer raids
karl marx and friedrich engels: theory of communism; thought it was unjust for the rich to control much of the money in our country, poor people need to overthrow the gov't and create a society that is equal (never happened)(is more like a dictatorship)
soviet union is first communist country in the world
the palmer raids: general and hoover went after ppl who they thought were communist, socialists, and radicals and they would deport them; thought they had to get communists and get them out of our country
j edgar hoover- one of the most powerful ppl in history; leader of the FBI
palmer house bombing-
sacco and vanzetti- immigrants and italians, catholics, and anarchists; shot and killed their job payer, no evidence except a gun that belonged to vanzetti
ku klux klan- hate group; killing radicals; not government controlled
-Republican Domination- president warren g. harding, coolidge, hoover= republicans; republican beliefs: laissez fairre- to let alone, gov't stays out of business
do nothing- let the country run itself
trickle down theory- by helping the rich it will trickle down and help the other classes of people
basically do nothing
-War Prevention
-Automobile/Airplane
-Prohibition
-Science vs Religion
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