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Topics Included in Presentation:
Communism and Red Scare
Palmer Raids, Sacco + Vanzetti, KKK
Republican Presidents in 1920s
Labor Strikes
Presidents of the 1920s
Prohibition and Gangsters
Scopes Monkey Trial Entertainment
Great Migration and NAACP
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USSR Power Struggle
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Palmer Raids
Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer ordered
these raids
2 Results of:
Government deported 100s
of radicals
Not much evidence of any
radical plots and civilrights of many were
violated
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Sacco and Vanzetti Italian Immigrants
executed for murder
Significance:
fear of foreigners in
United States
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Ku Klux Klan Targets in the 1920s:
Blacks
Immigrants = Jews
and Catholics
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Boston Police Strike
Entire police department goes on strike and
are fired and replaced by new policemen.
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Steel Mill Strike
Violent strike
where the
governmentbroke up the
steel workers
union
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Coal Miners
Strike John L. Lewis led asuccessful strike of
the nations coal
miners and
becomes a
powerful labor
leader.
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Warren Harding
Republican Senator
from Ohio. (29th)
Famous ...return tonormalcy speech.
Ohio gang led to
many scandals in the
Harding presidency
Dies in office in 1923
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Teapot Dome
Scandal Teapot Dome,Wyoming hadgovernment ownedoil fields
Secretary of InteriorAlbert Fall leased theland to oil executiveswho had bribed him.
Fall became 1st
cabinet officer to goto jail.
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Calvin Coolidge Silent Cal 30th
Takes over Presidencywhen Harding dies.
Wins reelection in 1924but does not run forreelection in 1928.
The business ofAmerica is business!!
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You can get much further with a kind
word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone.
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Mafia in the United States
5 Big Families
Commission
Gambino Lucchese Bonanno ColomboGenovese
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Philadelphia Mob
The Philadelphia,Pennsylvania faction ofLa Cosa Nostra hasbeen one of the
strongest families in theAmerican Cosa Nostrasince its start in 1911.
Salvatore Sabella wassent to Philadelphia by
the bosses of theSicilian Mafia toorganize the city'srackets.
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What was the controversial issue inthe Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925?
Charles Darwinstheory of evolution.
Man evolved fromapes.
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1st Radio Broadcast - 1920
First Broadcast
At 6:00pm, onTuesday,November 2, 1920,a few men in ashack changed thecourse of history.
Pittsburgh, PA.
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1st person to flysolo across theAtlantic Ocean by
33 hours and 39minutes
Received a prizeof $25,000
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The Jazz
Singer (1927) The 1st feature length
motion picture with
synchronizeddialogue.
Starred Al Jolson
Marked the decline ofthe silent film era
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Movement of African-
Americans from the
South to Urban areas
of United States More than 1.5 million
1914 1930
Escape racism, findbetter jobs, overall
better life in the North
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National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People
James Weldon Johnson
was instrumental in
increasing the NAACP's
membership from 9,000
to almost 90,000.