1920’sch. 12 review

Post WWI Problems

• violent labor strikes

• urban racial riots

• bomb scares

• anger towards anarchists

The Red Scare 1919-1920

• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer “Fighting Quaker”

• The Palmer Raids- J.Edgar Hoover & Palmer– the Russian Revolution = Communist gov.– the presence of Communist party members in

the United States worried many– bomb scares and actual bombings– labor strikes

Sacco & Vanzetti Case

• 1920- Italian immigrants arrested

* charged with robbery, murder

* not proved guilty on evidence

• Jury finds them guilty and sentence to death

Nativism

• National Origins Acts

– A belief that the nation's pool of labor was already overcrowded

– The belief that immigrants were not assimilating

– White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to bar immigrants of different racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds

Rise of the KKK

– promote white supremacy– Nordic Americans– Rise in mostly Southern states

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The Business of America in the 1920’s

ch.12 section 3

Automobiles• Effects

– Changes in dating customs– more governmental funds for highways– The stimulation of industries connected to the

automobile industry, such as batteries, steel, oil, glass, and rubber

– Changed the way homes were constructed– The development of a motel industry

Goods and Prices

1900 1928 wringer and

washboard $5brushes and brooms

$5sewing machine

(mechanical) $25

• washing machine $150

• vacuum cleaner $ 50• sewing machine

(electric) $ 60

The birth of Advertising & Installment Plans = Credit

“American consumersin the 1920s couldpurchase the latesthousehold electricalappliances, such as arefrigerator, for aslittle as a dollar downand a dollar a week.”The American’sChapter 12 sec. 3

A PERSONAL VOICE“Have you an automobile yet?”“No, I talked it over with John and he felt we could notafford one.”“Mr. Budge who lives in your town has one and they are not

as well off as you are.”“Yes, I know. Their second installment came due, and they

had no money to pay it.”“What did they do? Lose the car?”“No, they got the money and paid the installment.”“How did they get the money?”“They sold the cook-stove.”“How could they get along without a cook-stove?”“They didn’t. They bought another on the installment plan.” —a business owner quoted In the Time of Silent Cal

“She was a beautiful girl and talented too. She had the advantages of education

and better clothes than most girls of her set. She possessed that culture and poise that travel brings. Yet in the one pursuit that stands foremost in the mind of every girl and woman—marriage—she was a failure.”

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The Presidents of the Roaring Twenties….