Monday: Forum posts leaders talk bout their topics. Continue watching videos and taking notes. My NOTES!
Tuesday: Taking notes.
Wednesday: More notes.
5. Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
GDP was high in 1920’s...Crashed in 1929.
Stock market was booming throughout the 1920’s... Crashed in 1929.
The crash impacted the 1930’s.
Tariffs - Tax on imported goods
6. Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
The Red Scare
Karl Marx - inventor of communism
Communist
Rights taken away
Promotes equality
Sacco and Vanzetti
The gun was circumstantial evidence
Today they would have been let free
They were anarchist
They were executed
Immigrants in the 1920’s
The Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act/Asian Exclusion Act) greatly reduced immigration to US
The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans and Jews
Severely restricted the immigration of Africa and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
The purpose of the act was “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity”
White - Anglos Action - Saxon - Protestant. (W.A.S.P)
We needed to cut down the number of people coming here
All part of the Red Scare Hysteria
7. Harlem Renaissance-KKK
Ku Klux Klan
Anti-immigrants
Anti-Blacks/African Americans
They were anti-catholic but were Christians
Harlem Renaissance
A rebirth of African American culture
They were preaching that black was okay
Marcus Garvey
Said that black is beautiful
The Cotton Club
Louis Armstrong performed his trumpet there
Bessie Smith was a singer
Thursday: Watched more videos and did notes. My internet was slow. My NOTES!
Friday: Did more notes. Watched videos. My NOTES!
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