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Page 1: The 1920s. The Red Scare/Palmer Raids Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids

The 1920s

Page 3: The 1920s. The Red Scare/Palmer Raids Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids

Growing Nativism

NativismNicola Sacco & Bartolomeo VanzettiNational Origins ActQuotas2nd Ku Klux Klan

Page 4: The 1920s. The Red Scare/Palmer Raids Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids

Prohibition18th Amendment

Anti-Saloon LeagueWoman’s Christian Temperance Union

Volstead ActProhibition Bureau

Speakeasies/BootleggersOrganized Crime/Al Capone

Page 5: The 1920s. The Red Scare/Palmer Raids Bolshevik/Russian Revolution Red Scare Use of Sedition Act Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids

Pro-Business Government Policies• “The chief business of America is business”– President Calvin Coolidge

• Reduced income taxes on rich• Reduced govt regulation of industry, opposition to labor unions

• Return to laissez faire form of capitalism