uniot 4: roaring twenties (1920s)

red scare

fear of communism post ww1

reasons for red scre

bolshevik revolution, labor unrest, bomb scares

a. mitchell palmer

led anti-radical crackdowns

palmer raids

arrests and deportations of suspected communists and anarchists

sacco and vanzetti

italian anarchists convicted and executed; trial seen as unfair

great migration

mass movement of african americans to northern cities for jobs

national origins act (1924)

limited immigration from southern/eastern europe

kkk

nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, anti-black

louis armstrong and bessie smith

prominant jazz musicians

gertrufe ederle

first m=woman to swim the english channel

henry ford

revolutionized production w assembly line

harlem renaissance

cultursl revivial of african american arts and literature

langston hughes

poet and leading figure of harlem renaissance

charles lindbergh

first solo nonstop flight across the atlantic

lost generation

writers disillisioned by ww1

f. scott fitzgerald

"great gatsby"

flappers

women who rejected traditional norms

talkies

movies w sound; revolutionized entertainment

marcus garvey

led back to africa movement, promoted black ppride

traditionalism vs midernism

clash over science, reiligon, and social values

scopes monkey trial

debated teaching evolution in schools

prohibition

18th amendement outlawed, enforced by volstead act

al capone

infamous gangster who profited from illegal schools

election of 1920

warren g harding's "return to normalcy"

teapot dome scandal

oil lease bribery scandal under harding

calvin coolidge

less gov involvment, pro-business, low taxes, reduced national debt, opposed labor unions

election of 1928

al smith v herbert hoover

herbert hoover

won 1928, blamed for great depression

republican economic policies

laissez-faire, low taxes, limited regulation

economic warning signs

uneven wealth, overproduction, buying on credit

black tuesday (oct 29, 1929)

stock market crash, start of great depression

great crash

triggered bank failures, unemplyment, global economic crisis