Friday- 1920's
Nicknames of the 1920's
-The Roaring 20's
-Republican Era
-The Jazz Age
-The Lost Generation (1883-1900) -High school/College kids
-Boom to Bust
-Decade of Normalcy
-Prosperity Decade
-Prohibition Era
-The Advertising Age
-The Golden Age of Sports
-Era of Permanent Prosperity
Red Scare 1919-1920
-Scared of becoming communist & racism
Communism - government's control, own everything, people don't have rights, equality
Practice vs Theory (China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Louse)
Karl Marx -German made a book about communism
Soviet Union (USSR) -1922-1991
CCCP- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Vladimir Lenin 1917-1924 -brought into a different territory
MONDAY
The Palmer Raids-
-Series of raids conducted by the department of justice to capture and arrest suspected radicals and deport them from the US.
-The raids and arrested occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover.
-Raids started after there were strikes that got national attention, race riots in more than 30 cities, and two sets of bombing in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home
-More than 500 foreign citizens were deported during the raids
Sacco and Vanzetti- accused to robbing and murdering a paymaster and his guard as they transferred $15,776 from the Slater and Morrill Shoe.
-Italians immigrants. Little evidence.
-Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted on circumstantial evidence of capital murder and sentenced to death.
-Sacco an Vanzetti appealed their convictions but they lost and were executed in 1927,
What happened to immigrants in the 1920's? Limit, because they might be communist
Immigration in the 1920's
The Immigration Act greatly reduced immigration to US
-The law was aimed at restricting immigrants of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
-Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
-The purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
-WASP
President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover- loved by the people in the beginning
anarchist- don't believe in government
TUESDAY-
Republican Philosophy- 1920's
-Progressive Era
-Lower taxes, high tariffs and less government
-Lower immigration
-Trickle-down theory (give tax breaks to everyone, business get tax cuts) (lead to more jobs)
-Laissez-faire (hands off) Government needs to stay out of businesses
-Rugged individualism (working hard, not depending on people)
-A return to "Normalcy"
Albert Fall - Teapot Dome Scandal
-taking bribes, making money, giving business rights to drill for oil
Warren Harding's Death and Funeral (age 58)
Traveled to give speeches
Died while his wife was reading to him (no autopsy) (probably heart attack)
What impact did automobiles have on the United States? moved more, more jobs, freedom
WEDNESDAY
Airplanes in the 1920's
-Mail carrying
-Transporting small groups of people
-Military
-Entertainment
-Major Feats
Ch. 13
Rural vs Urban
-1920 census- 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
1922-1929 more than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
Prohibition- "The Noble Experiment"
-18th amendment (1920-1933)
-The manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
-Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
-Alcohol was allowed for medicine and religious purposes
-Prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
-Prohibition failed for three reasons-
1. People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's life.
2. The prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
3. Organized crime because commonplace
Bootlegging in the 1920's
-Illegally making or distributing alcohol
Bootleggers
-people that made or transported alcohol
-Named because people carried liquor in legs of boots
-More imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba, or the West Indies
The biggest threat to the bootlegger was not the Prohibition Bureau or police but...
-Hijacking
Moonshine - alcohol made secretly in home made stills
-Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during the 1920's
Speakeasies
-to obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars call speakeasies (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
-Speakeasies could be anywhere
-To be admitted a card or password had to be given
Organized Crimes
-Came about as a result of Prohibition
-Every major city has it's gang
-Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million a year (taking down by tax evasion)
-Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
-Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment
THURSDAY- no school
FRIDAY- work on presentations
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