Chapter 20

Impact Today

• National celebrities in sports and film
• Jazz Music
• Classic American Literature like the Great Gatsby

Section 1

Return of the Native

• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
• Eugenics
• Return of the KKK

"Keeping American American"

• Emergency Quota Act
• The National Origins Act of 1924
• Newlands Reclamation Act

The New MORALITY

• Marry for love!
• All the single ladies!
• All the educated ladies
• Cruising!

The Flapper

• "Bobbed" hair
• silk stockings
• smoked/drank
• wore revealing clothes

Famous Ladies

• Florence Sabin
• Edith Wharton
• Margaret Sanger
• Margaret Mead

Fundamentalism v. science

The Scopes Trial

• 1925-Butler Act
• The ACLU wanted to challenge the law
• John T. Scopes volunteered and was charged and arrested
• Defended by Clarence Darrow
• Still a huge issue!

Prohibition

• Thought it would help reduce unemployment, crt, crime, domestic violence, a
• National Prohibition Act-VOLSTEAD ACT
• Gave the US Treasury Department POLICE POWERS:
• A government's power to control people and property in the interest  of pub
• 18th Amendment

Speakin' Boot and Moon

• More than 540,000 arrests
• People blatantly ignored the law
• Opened up SPEAKEASIES (32,000 in NYC)
• Organized crime developed
• 21st Amendment repealed 18th Amendment

Section 2

Aht and Literature

• People were BOHEMIAN in Greenwich Village ("The Loste Generation")
• Artists:  John Marin and Edward Hopper
• Poets:  Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Also Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams
• Playwrights and Novelists:  Eugene O'Neil, Erneset Hemingway, F. Scott Fitz

Existentialism

Popular Culture

• Baseball, boxing, and football, oh my!!
• Even golf!
• Hollywood!
• Radio Shows!
• Jazz!

Mass Media

Section 3

The Harlem Renaissance

• Created an environment that stimulated artistic development, racial pride..
• a sense of community, and political organization
• Writers:  Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
• Two major themes:  Defiance and contempt of racism

More Renaissancing;

• Jazz and Blues develop
• Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
• Cotton Club...Harlem nightspot
• Bessie Smith and Paul Robeson
• The H.R. brought world renown to AA

AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS

• Great Migration swayed politics in the North
• Usually voted Republican
• Oscar DePriest: 1st black rep from the North...
• Slave pensions, Lincoln's bday, anti-lynching laws

NAACP

• Focused efforts on legislation
• Anti-lynching law was shot down in Senate
• Kept John J. Parker from joining S.C.
• Led to black pride/black nationalism
• Also led to....

BLACK SEPARATION MOVEMENTS

MARCUS GARVEY

• Founded UNIA
• Message: blacks could gain economic and political power...
• THROUGH EDUCATION!
• 1920: Garvey promotes the "back to Africa" movement

BACK TO AFRICA

• Settlements in Liberia
• Some other leaders distanced themselves
• Freaked out the FBI
• Garvey went to jail for mail fraud
• Then he got deported...but the message remained

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