chapter 24 the jazz age

Chapter 24The Jazz Age

Section 1Time of Turmoil

RECALL…Russian Revolution

Treaty of Versailles

Key Termscapitalism – an economic system based

on private property & free enterprise

anarchist – people who believe there should be no government (bombings frightened Americans)

deport – to be expelled from a country

The Red ScareA period when the government went after “Reds”or Communists….

A. Mitchell Palmer/J. Edgar Hoover

*Arrested or deported people suspected of being Communists / anarchists*ransacked homes, offices, and seized records

Sacco and Vanzetti

Two men accused of robbing a shoe factory and killing a guard and paymaster.Police arrested…they were tried & convicted – sentenced to death by electric chair. (Sacco proven guilty in 1961)

Strike – steel workers

Higher wagesEight-Hour work day

350,000 workers went on strike

Strike – policemen in Boston 1919

What happened???

Governor Calvin Coolidge

“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”

Policemen fired…

A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood

Union of Sleeping Car Porters, 1930s

He later will become a leader of civil

rights in the 1950s and 1960s

Marcus GarveyOpposed integrationSupported a back-to-Africa movement in the 1920sGained great influence among the urban poor

“to be a Negro is no disgrace, but an honor.”

“He taught African Americans to admire and praise black things and black people.”