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The Twenties

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE TWENTIES

BY: ELSI PACHECO

RED SCARE

  • Russia became communist
  • Fear of communist control

SACCO & VANSETI

  • Charged for murder & robbery of a factory paymaster
  • Belief that they were mistreated because of radical belief

KU KLUX KLAN

  • Result of the red scare
  • Harass any group unlike themselves

PALMER RAIDS

  • Trampled people's civil rights
  • Foreign-born were deported without trial

AUTO INDUSTRY

  • Changed American landscape
  • Young children & women were more independent

H.FORD

  • Created the ford model t car
  • Developed the assembly line

ASSEMBLY LINE

  • Reducing effort
  • Division of labor

PROHIBITION

  • 18th amendment
  • Sale & transportation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited

18TH AMENDMENT

  • Sale & transportation of alcohol was prohibited

21ST AMENDMENT

  • Transportation of alcohol to any state of the U.S is prohibited

ORGANIZED CRIME

  • Al Capone
  • Gangster (bootlegger) took over Chicago liquor by killing his competio

SCOPES TRIAL

  • Tennessee law
  • Crime to teach evolution
  • Scopes challenged

C.DARROW

  • Hired by ACLU
  • Defend scopes

W.J. BRYAN

  • Prosecutor
  • 3 times democratic candidate for president

DECISION

  • John scopes guilty
  • Overturned
  • Bible can be interpreted in many ways

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

  • Black American artistic creativity

JAZZ

  • Started in New Orleans

L. HUGHES

  • Best known as the leader of Harlem Renaissance
  • Poet

TIN PAN ALLEY

  • Music publishers in N.Y

POPULAR

  • Charles A. Lindbergh
  • Babe Ruth
  • Jack Dempsey

LINDBURGH

  • First successful to fly non stop across transatlantic

B. RUTH

  • American professional baseball player

J. DEMPSEY