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1920s The jazz Age

Chap 15

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A Clash of values

1920s saw a clash betweentraditional and modern values

ost !!" America was #ros#erousand con$dent% consumerism was onthe rise

Americans returned to isolationismand nativism

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&esurgence ofnativism and racism

!ho did we hate' "n!!" we hated the(ermans) After !!" we

hated and feared theCommunists andimmigrants)

"mmigrants seen as

threats)

*ew +uotas set torestrict immigration)

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The &ed ,care

After !!"% #eo#le feared thes#read of communism% -!or.ersof the world% /*"T

34olshevi. &evolution in &ussia%19156

conom7 in turmoil after war8govt #rice controls removedled

to high #rices% wor.ers stri.es Americans feared a communist

cons#irac7

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The almer &aids 1919

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almer &aids

After a series of bombings, US Attorney

General Robert Palmer conducts

seeping raids, arresting thousands of

foreigners nation!ide" #any ere $ailed

and%or deported" Ci&il liberties ere

ignored"

'eginning of the (') and *" +dgaroo&er-s long career

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,acco:;anzettiTrial

.o immigrant

anarchist con&icted of

burglary and murder

after a pre$udiced trial

" am su

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ugenics8the -seudo:,cience

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ugenics

Used by nati&ists to argue superiority of

hites"

Said human ine/ualities ere inherited

Used to $ustify sterili0ation of mentally ill or

handicapped Americans

Studies ill be used by a0i Germany inits push to create a master race and

e2terminate 3undesirables4

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&eturn of The KKK

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191> ?u ?lu@ ?lan

Anti:blac.

Anti:Catholic

Anti:ew

Anti:immigrant

wanted to8

-#reserve Americas white rotestantcivilization)*ot just a ,outhern organization% s#readall over the /nited ,tates)

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?ee# America American

e las restrictedimmigration, set /uotasbased on 167 le&els"

#e2ican immigration8

#e2ico e2empt from/uotas9 ta:e or: inagriculture"

Asian immigration;stopped almostcompletely

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The ,co#es -Bon.e7 Trial

Creationism v) volution

ld:fashioned v) Bodern

!illiam ennings 4r7an v) ClarenceDarrow

192> Tennessee ::: Eigh school

teacher ohn ,co#es found guilt7 ofteaching evolution)

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#rohibition

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The ;olstead act

The law that enforced rohibition

Too. authorit7 from the stategovernments and made the Treasur7De#t res#onsible for enforcingrohibition)

"ncreased the role of the federalgovt in law enforcement

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The new American Eero

Sports; baseball,

bo2ing, football,

bas:etball

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Bass Bedia

Radio, nespaper, motion pictures,

maga0ines help create a shared national

culture

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African:American culture

The (reat Bigration

Eundreds of thousands of African Americansleft the ,outh moving to industrial cities

loo.ing for wor. and better lives)

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African:American olitics

African:Americans have fewer votingrestrictions in *orthern cities)

;oting 4locs8 greater concentration of

blac.s voting in the cities) Boresuccess in inFuencing voting) 4lac.stended to vote &e#ublican

*AAC8 continues its $ght againstsegregation% discrimination% andl7nching)

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Earlem &enaissance

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Earlem

An area in *GC where man7 African:

Americans settled) Created a communit7 of racial #ride

and success% #olitical organization%

and artistic develo#ment)

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EarlemEome of AHH

The Cotton Club% the A#ollo% the,avo7

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AHH and 4I/,

A st7le of music that grew out ofDi@ieland% ragtime% and Africans#iritual inFuences)

,7nco#ated% soulful% swingingrh7thms)

Iouis Armstrong% Du.e llington%4essie ,mith% ose#hine 4a.er

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!riters and oets of theEarlem &enaissance

Claude #c

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4lac. nationalism

Promoted blac: pride and unity

=ed by #arcus Gar&ey"

'elie&ed African!Americans could gain economic

and political poer thru +>UCA.)? Also pushed for separation and independence

from hites

Gar&ey est-d the U)A8United egro

)mpro&ement Association Proposed that blac:s e&eryhere should return

to Africa8 3Pan-African4 #o&ement

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#arcus Gar&ey (ederal officials

belie&ed Gar&ey to bedangerous, afraid he

ould incite rebellion

and &iolence"

Gar&ey as arrested

and deported to

*amaica

Tulsa &ace &iot

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Tulsa &ace &iot

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Greenood district of .ulsa destroyed America-s 3'lac:Ball Street4

Riot begins after Tulsa Tribunearticle publishes accountof blac: man attac:ing a hite oman in an ele&ator

Bhite mobs burn Greenood, citi0ens bloc:ed fire dept

from responding ?fficial death toll is 5, but is probably closer to 77"

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