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- Puposefully challenged the Tennessee law fobidding the teaching of evolution
- ACLU defended Scopes
- William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor
- On the stand Bryans did admitt that the Bible could be interpretted different ways - this went against the beliefs of the fundamentalists
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- 18th amendment banning production, sale, and transporting of alcohol
- results - increased organized crime, disregard for the law, bootleggers, and speakeasies
- Repealed 1933 - 13 years later
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- Private places where alcohol was served
- To be admitted you had to have a password or a card
- People spoke quietly or "easily"
- They were found everywhere
- Places to evade the prohibition law
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- Organizations run by criminals and engaging in illegal acts
- Prohibition increased organized crime by providing opportunities to make money on alcohol illegally
- Example Al Capone
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- Protestant led movement based on the idea that the Bible can be interpreted literally
- Went against and the scientific theories - specifically evolution
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- Generation of women in the 20's that rejected the streroetypical woman of previous times
- Drank, wore "flapper dress," went out, smoked, and started to demand equal status for women
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- While women were in the work force, they were assigned to traditional jobs and paid less than men for the same jobs
- Still seen as responsible for the home and children
- Changed: lifestyles, families, and jobs
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- originated in New Orleans
- Louis Armstron
- Duke Ellington
- Bessie Smith
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- Literary - Clause Mckay, Langston Hughes
- Actor - Paul Robeson - son of a slave
- Music - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith
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- Immigrants and radicals during The Red Scare
- Charged and convicted of murder and robbery with only circumstantial evidence
- Public outcry because many thought they were unjustly convicted because they were immigrants and radicals
- put to death anyway
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- During "The Red Scare" attorney general Palmer authorized raids that violated people's civil rights
- Ultimately hundreds of people were deported, most without just cause
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- Fear that communism would spread to the US
- Set up the circumstances that allowed the Palmer Raids
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- Overthrow of the Russian government and the installation of a communist government
- Declared that communism would be spread throughout the world
- Set off the "Red Scare"
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- 1921 - established a maximum # of people that could enter the US from mainly european nations
- occurred because of the competition for jobs
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- After the war, Americans desired normalcy
- Harding promised normalcy
- Cabinet members were involved in corruption
- Died during presidency and Calvin Coolidge became president
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- President after Harding died
- Republican - promoted business with high tariffs, minimum business regulation, loans to grow business, low taxes
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- Father of assembly line and mass production
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- Dislike or fear of foreigners
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- With increased technology and disposable income, US consumers bought all that was available
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- the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.
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- Allowed people to purchase things on an installment plan without putting much down
- People sometimes bought things they could not afford
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- Advertising companies now hired psychologists to find out how to appeal to people's desire for youthfulness, beauty, health, and wealth
- Slogans were powerful
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- Industries flourished (auto, small appliance, etc)
- Consumers had more $ to buy goods
- Coolidge provided an environment for businesses to grow
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- Values before WWI
- women at home taking care of children
- not equals with men in and outside the house
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