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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
RED SCARE
- Communists, or “Reds,” cried out for a worldwide revolution that would abolish capitalism everywhere.
- A Communist Party formed in the United States. Seventy-thousand radicals joined.
PALMER RAIDS
- Palmer, Hoover, and their agents hunted down suspected Communists, socialists, and anarchists—people who opposed any form of gov- ernment.
- They trampled people’s civil rights, invading private homes and offices and jailing suspects without allowing them legal counsel.
SACCO AND VANSETTI
- arrested and charged with the rob- bery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
- The accused asserted their innocence and provided alibis; the evidence against them was circumstantial; and the presiding judge made prejudicial remarks.
KU KLUX KLAN
- The KKK was devoted to “100 percent Americanism.
- KKK members were paid to recruit new members into their world of secret rituals and racial violence.
PROHIBITION
- This amendment launched the era known as Prohibition, during which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
- They thought that too much drinking led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on the job, and other serious social problems.
18TH AMENDMENT
- of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal.
- The Amendment was the first to set a time delay before it would take effect following ratification, and the first to set a time limit for its ratification by the states.
21 ST AMENDMENT
- to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
- which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
ORGANIZED CRIME
- Chicago became notorious as the home of Al Capone, a gangster whose bootlegging empire netted over $60 million a year.
- During the 1920s, headlines reported 522 bloody gang killings and made the image of flashy Al Capone part of the folklore of the period.
SCOPES TRIAL
- The Scopes trial was a fight over evo- lution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.
- In March 1925, Tennessee passed the nation’s first law that made it a crime to teach evolution.
C. DARROW
- the most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes.
- Leading member of the American civil liberties union.
W.J. BRYAN
- William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for president and a devout fundamentalist, served as a special prosecutor.
- William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.
LANGSTON HUGHES
- Many of Hughes’s 1920s poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans.
- Missouri-born Langston Hughes was the movement’s best-known poet.
TIN PAN ALLEY
- Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
- Some songs were some of these days, too much mustard.
HARLEM RENAINSSANCE
- a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
- The Movement also encompassed the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States effected by the Great Migration African American of which Harlem was the largest.
BABE RUTH
- New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smashed home run after home run during the 1920s.
- When this leg- endary star hit a record 60 home runs in 1927, Americans went wild.
AUTO INDUSTRY
- In 1927, the last Model T Ford—number 15,077,033—rolled off the assembly line.
- On December 2, some 1 million New Yorkers mobbed show rooms to view the new Model.
H. FORD
- Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Wikipedia
- founder of the Ford Motor Company.
ASSEMBLY LINE
- Assembly lines are designed for the sequential organization of workers, tools or machines, and parts.
- The motion of workers is minimized to the extent possible.
J DEMPSEY
- James Dempsey was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
- Dempsey was educated at Holy Family School, Mossend, the Co-operative College in Loughborough, and at the National Council of Labour Colleges.
CHARLES A LINDBERGH
- made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
- America’s most beloved hero of the time wasn’t an ath- lete but a small-town pilot.
DECISION
- Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.
- The Tennessee Supreme Court later changed the verdict on a tech- nicality, but the law outlawing the teaching of evolution remained in effect.
