Semester Tes Blog #5 inculdes the roaring 20s entertainment, Red Scare, republican domination, war prevention, automobile & airplane, science vs religion.
why is it called the roaring 20s? first off, the automobile became available to the common person. you could get in in any color, as long as that color was black. haha.
intro to buying things on credit. allowed the common person to be able to afford expensive things. pay so much a month over a period of time. people over used credit tho, so everybody was in debt by the late 1920s, so they stopped buying things, causing a huge economy crash...ended up with the great depression.
electricity became available in the common home. "magic hole in the wall"...let there be light! in the cities, anyway.
the radio. you could plug it in at home now. and you could tune in to sports, news, soap opras and kids programs. so, lots of sports became really popular. and things were better advertised, so people knew more about what was available for consuming, so they could go out and buy it....etc
the red scare-
after the bulshivik revolution, russia became communists. so we americans were afraid something similar might happen to america. we got really paranoid that we might become communists. because there was an international communist group that trained people to infiltrate countries and their governments and start revolutions there. so we got really afraid that all the immigrants that were coming were communists or radicals or something, so we passed lots of anti-immigration laws, mostly concerning immigrantws from europe and asia, not so much against latin america.
Karl Marx abnd Frederick Engels came up with the idea of communism, wrote a book about it, marx gets more recognition for it than engels. anyways, they said it was unfair that the rich have so much power. 90% of people were common or poor or struggling to get by every day. so they said that 90% should rise up against the rich and the government and create a classless society where all people are equal and happy.
the theory is quite nice, but in reality....it just doesnt work.
So, Russia becomes the Soviet Union. the first communist country. led by Vladimir Lenin, the first communist leader. he died a few years later, so we cant ever know what he may have accomplished.
period of time called the red scare because red was the color of russia's/the soviet union's flag.
The Palmer Raids.
attacked radicalists and such, arrested who they suspected to be radicalist immigrants and deported them back to their countries.
J. Edgar Hoover. head of the FBI for quite some time. for forty some years. his house was once bombed, which fed the hysteria that the communists and anarchists were out to get us.
Sacco and Vanzetti. they were italian anarchists. shot and killed their paymaster. no evidence, but for the gun that belonged to sacco. in a modern court of law, they would have been found innocent, but since it was a hysteric time period, they were put to death. so they didnt get a fair trial, but their trial was a message sent out to immigrants telling them not to be radicals.
Ku Klux Klan. anit-immigrant, anti-black, anti-radical, anti-communist, anti-catholic. regained popularity due to hysteria.
Republican domination
Pres Warren G. Harding.....the first of the republican trio of the 1920s (harding, coolidge, and hoover) the entire 20s decade had republican presidencies. Republicans philosophy of the 1920s brought about the roaring 20s, but also the stock market crash. had laissez fairve policies (let alone). during the progressive era the government was really hands-on, so in the 1920s they backed off and let the people be. said it wasnt the government's place to interfere with businesses. they were a "Do Nothing" type...didnt really do nothing, but cetainly didnt do as much....as little as possible. people really liked it at the time.
old people say the government should get smaller and stay out of peoples lives.
Trickle Down Theory. government was gonna give tax breaks to the rich. because the rich owned businesses, and if they got help, they would do better, and so would the middle class and lower classes, eventually.
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