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The 1920s
The Red Scare/Palmer Raids
Bolshevik/Russian RevolutionRed Scare
Use of Sedition ActAttorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer Raids
Growing Nativism
NativismNicola Sacco & Bartolomeo VanzettiNational Origins ActQuotas2nd Ku Klux Klan
Prohibition18th Amendment
Anti-Saloon LeagueWoman’s Christian Temperance Union
Volstead ActProhibition Bureau
Speakeasies/BootleggersOrganized Crime/Al Capone
Pro-Business Government Policies• “The chief business of America is business”– President Calvin Coolidge
• Reduced income taxes on rich• Reduced govt regulation of industry, opposition to labor unions
• Return to laissez faire form of capitalism
Growing Consumerism
Mass productionGrowth of annual income
Spread of ElectricityNew products
New developments in advertising
Installment BuyingA Superficial Prosperity
The Car Craze
Model T & Model ARoad Construction/Route 66
Related IndustriesIncreased Mobility
Suburbs & CommutingGrowth of Car Ownership
Fundamentalism & the Scopes “Monkey” Trial
FundamentalismJohn T. ScopesClarence DarrowScopes TrialWilliam Jennings BryanBishop Ussher
Flappers & the Challenge to Social Norms
Zelda FitzgeraldImpacts of WWIFlappersChanges in Clothing, BehaviorsChanges in Dating, Attitudes Toward MarriageLimits to the Flappers’ “Rebellion”
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