chapter 31: american life in roaring twenties
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Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties. Oh no, it’s COMMUNISM. Russia turns to Soviet Union and Communism in 1917 What is communism? a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 31: American Life in Roaring Twenties
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Oh no, it’s COMMUNISM
• Russia turns to Soviet Union and Communism in 1917– What is communism?• a : a theory advocating elimination of private property
b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
– Simulation?
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Red Scare
• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer– Rooted out radicals, socialists, communists,
anarchists– House was bombed– Led to anti- communist hysteria– Liberals and radicals not wanted in USA– Led to many conservative victories
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Anti- Immigration
• Sacco and Vanzetti– Arrested and killed for murder– Murky details of case, probably innocent?– Shows anti immigration and anti radical feelings
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KKK
• More “pro-white” than anti- African American• WASP- White Anglo Saxon Protestant• 5 million join in 20s• Popular in “bible belt” of south• Birth of A Nation
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Stopping Immigration
• New Immigrants never really liked• Emergency Quota Act- restrictions • Immigration Act- more restrictions• Immigration Act 1924- no Japanese• Randolph Bourne and Horace Kallen led
attacks on anti- immigration crusades
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Questions!
• Why were we so fearful of Communism?• How did America's nativism and isolationism
get out of control?• Construct an argument of a Nativist who
supports anti- immigration measures.• What are the underplaying cause and effects
of this anti- foreign attitude? Make a chart.
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Prohibition
• 18th Amendment/ 21st Amendment• Largely ignored– Speakeasies, bootlegging, mafia– Led to increased organized crime, more binge
drinking• Benefits– Bank savings went up, skipping work went down,
spousal abuse down, public drunkenness down
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Gangsters
• Bribery, wars, murder, bootlegging• Al Capone was most famous– Murdered as many as 30, jailed for tax evasion
• After Prohibition ended- gambling, drugs, etc• Kidnapping was big as well– Charles Lindbergh’s baby
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Scopes Trial
• Darwinism a fairly new idea• Taught by John Scopes to challenge the law
that said it can’t be taught– ACLU backed him
• Fundamentalists hated Darwinism– William J. Bryan won the case
• Fundamentalism wins
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Mass- Economy
• Giant industries sparked by automobile• Henry Ford used assembly line– Model T first affordable car
• Advertising became necessary• Sports were big business
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Transportation• Impacts of Mass- Production
of Cars– Gasoline industry, new car
companies, Detroit, millions of jobs, oil production, urban sprawl, road construction, schools larger, deaths, freedoms
• Airplanes– Wright brothers- 1903– Lindbergh- 1927 across ocean– War
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Radio
• KDKA first radio station in USA
• 1920’s TV• Famous shows and actors• Sports more popular• News more accessible
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Movies
• 1903- first movie “The Great Train Robbery”• 1915- “Birth of a Nation” KKK movie• Anti- German Propaganda in WWI• 1927- The Jazz Singer was first “talkie”• Standardized American Culture– Everybody from all cultures watching and hearing
and ultimately enjoying the same thing led to a unique American Culture instead of fragmentations of various European cultures….
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DO NOW!
• Read page 738- The Dynamic Decade and list all progressive/ liberal happenings in the 1920s
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Culture• People to know:
– F. Scott Fitzgerald- Great Gatsby
– Ernest Hemmingway- A Farewell To Arms
– William Faulkner- The Sound and The Fury
– Frank Lloyd Wright- Architect• Things to know:
– Harlem Renaissance, Lost Generation, Greenwich Village, Architecture
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CRASH!
• Speculation, over production, credit drove economy out of control
• One day of panic selling started a domino effect that created the Great Depression
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Questions
• Were the 1920s liberal or conservative?
• What was the biggest contribution to American culture and society during the 1920s?