Chapter 8 1920's The Jazz Age/ Roaring 20's

Normalcy

People wanted their lives to go back to the way things were before the war

Red Scare

Afraid of communists (Reds)

Palmer Raids

Attorney Gerneral Palmer arrested people and deported them

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian Anarchists (no government) found guilty of mudered executed. Evidence against them was circumstanial and the state of Massachussetts apologized in the 1970s. (Long dead by then)

Red Summer

There was white supremacist terrorism and racial riots

Williams

Swam on the white side of the water whites threw rocks at him and drowned him

Garvey

“Back to Africa” movement - to Liberia and embrace our heritage

Harding and Coolidge

Harding was president from 1921 to 1923. Harding died from heart attack. Coolidge was the vice president and once Harding died Coolidge took over. Both republicans and believe in Lassez Faire/Pro Business.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies.

Fall

Albert Fall was the Secretary of Interior had leased Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to two private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. He was convicted of taking bribes from the reserves.

Tariff

Tax on imports

Deregulation

Less rules by the government

5 Powers Treaty

USA,GB,FR,JP and the USSR they all agreed to have smaller navies

Leisure Time

To do fun things

Consumerism

How to sell your products (advertising)

Installment Buying

Pay for a product in small amounts over time

Car Culture

4 million jobs related to cars but rail road and coal companies get hurt

19th Amendment

Women get the right to vote

Flapper

Had short clothes, could own property, go to school, college and have a career and be independent

Harlem Renaissance

Proud to be an African American

“Duke” Ellington and Langston Hughes

African American Jazz and Author

Emergency Quota Act

Restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that country living in the United States as of the 1910 Census.

Scopes Trial

John Scopes was a biology teacher. He taught Darwin’s theory of Evolution but it was illegal to teach in the state of Tennesee. He did it anyway got arrested had a trial found guilty. Later gets overturned.