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| A major theme in the 1920’s that the US should stay out of the world’s troubles. |
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| When you dislike immigrants and want to protect the interests of the Americans. |
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| A political belief that government should do as little as possible and keep the taxes very low. |
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| Beginning in 1917, a civil war breaks out in Russia. The communists win and this leads to the creation of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R) Americans associated communism with being undemocratic and unloyal because Russia pulled out of WW1. |
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| This is the fear in the US that American communists were trying to overthrow the US government with help of the Russians |
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| Raids by the US government led by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and J Edgar Hoover against suspected communists which led to hundreds of immigrants being deported. People were linking immigrants with radicalism. |
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| Two Italian immigrants are convicted and executed for murder. Not because of the evidence found against them, but because of who they were. |
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| The 1920’s saw numerous race riots that resulted in hundreds of injuries and deaths. The vast majority being black Americans. |
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| Because of nativism and racial tension, the KKK reaches record membership in the 1920’s. They not only attacked Black americans, immigrants, jews, and catholics. |
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| Americans were tired of three things (debate of treaty of versailles, progressive programs that increased the size of government, race riots, strikes, and immigration). Americans wanted a president that was isolationist and who was conservative. |
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| Return to Normalcy: Elected in 1920 and promised to return American life to the way it was before the war. He promised isolationism, consumerism, and nativism. |
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| Emergency Quota Act/National Origins Act |
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| This was called both names listed above. It limited immigration from Europe. This was one of Harding’s greatest accomplishments. |
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| Teapot Dome was a mountain in the West owned by the Federal Government because it had oil underneath it. Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, secretly rented that land to oil companies in exchange for bribes and gifts. |
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| He believed that it was the government’s job to help business. He wanted government to interfere with business as little as possible. He didn’t want monopolies but wanted to let business do business. NICKNAME: SILENT CAL (Because he did little, which was symbolic of his presidency.) |
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| One of Coolidge’s big accomplishments while governor of Massachusetts. Police in Boston go on strike for better pay. This puts the people in danger. Coolidge fires the policemen and hires new ones. |
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| Coolidge's Accomplishments |
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1.He cleaned up all of Harding’s scandals.
2.He cut taxes.
3.He shrank the power of the government and balanced the budget.
4.He negotiated the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was an agreement among several nations to never go to war again. |
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| In the 1920’s, Americans were buying out of want not need. Home appliances, cars, radios, all became more common. Adversity was more effective and persuasive. |
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| By the 1920’s, most Americans owned a car. They are produced much cheaper and quicker because of the assembly line. The growth of the auto industry created 100’s of other businesses. |
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| n the 1920’s, because of consumerism, people began to buy items on installment plans. 60% of automobiles were bought through installment plans. This leads to individual to debt. |
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| Radio became the most popular form of home entertainment in the 20s. Home appliances were more common because electricity in homes was more common. |
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| In the 20s, advertisers begin preying on consumers fears and anxieties to sell a product. |
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| The 18th amendment made it illegal to sell, make, or transport alcohol. Women’s Christian Temperance Union fought for the prohibition of alcohol for decades. |
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| This was passed to help enforce the 18th amendment. It gave the federal government the authority to destroy any alcohol and to hire more law enforcement officers to help police the alcohol problem. |
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| The 18th amendment was overturned. It left prohibition up to the states and communities. This showed that the constitution was a living document. |
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| People didn’t stop drinking, It increased crime and a loss of tax revenue, it made good people criminals, people produced alcohol illegally and bought it from bootleggers, moonshiners, or speakeasies. |
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| Prohibition lead to a rise in organized crime; when a group does an ongoing criminal activity. Gangsters participated in : running, speakeasies, illegal drug sales, casinos, and brothers. |
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| The most famous gangster. He did all of his business through front men so that he was never caught for his crimes. |
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| Christians who believed in creationism which was that God created the world as stated in the bible. |
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| They believed that science/evolution should be taught in schools, not creationism. |
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| In the South, only creationism could be taught. Scopes, a biology teacher, challenges the state law. He taught evolution and was arrested. |
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| He defended Scopes and argued for modernists. |
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| He represented Fundamentalists in the Tennessee State Law that only creationism should be taught. |
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| Fundamentalists (Traditionalists) won the battle but lost the war. This was an example of traditionalism VS modernism. |
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| A woman of the 1920’s who wore new fashion and had a modern attitude. EX of Modernism VS Traditionalism. |
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Women began to change socially:
1.They move out on their own before marriage.
2.They started dating just for fun.
3.Went to Night Clubs.
4.Drank and Smoked in public. |
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| She was the leading supporter of the birth control in the 1920’s. She founded the American Birth Control League which later became PLANNED PARENTHOOD. |
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| Professional baseball player that made sports popular in the US. |
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| He was the first popular black american boxer. He was a symbol of national strength and opportunity. He represented a government that was not fair to him. |
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| He was a pilot who flew the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His plane was named “The Spirit of St. Louis” |
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| Actor and director of Silent movies, comedian. In the 1920’s, America saw the birth of motion pictures. |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ernest Hemingway |
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| Both were american authors and members of a group called the lost generation who were american writers critical of American culture. |
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| A time in the 1920’s when there was a big black american culture movement. Black musicians and writers became popular even in white america. |
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| Black american writer, became a symbol of Harlem Renasaince. Committed to black themes and heritage and to exposing racial issues. He awakened black nationalism. |
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| Started in New Orleans and moved North with the Great Migration. |
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| Most famous jazz singer and musician in the world. |
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