someone with communist sympathies connection with Russian Revolution

someone with communist sympathies, connection with Russian Revolution

Usually members of working class, many had radical beliefs (anarchists, socialists, etc. )

The quota system (set limits on # of imms from each country), 1923 Japanese Exclusion Act

Shorter hours, five day work week, living wage

Industrial Workers of the World or the “Wobblies”

Sacco & Vanzetti, many celebrities and intellectuals

Sacco & Vanzetti, Al Smith, KKK, quotas & restrictions

KKK, tension in cities between poor whites and blacks and immigrants

Mitchell Palmer, thought fighting Communism would help advance his political career

ACLU, Clarence Darrow

cultural homogeneity, religious fundamentalism, farming, traditional values, country music & ice cream socials, tough economic times

cultural diversity, new immigrants, religious diversity, speakeasies & jazz, manufacturing, booming economic times

What the basis of the Christian Fundamentalist movement? Name a well known fundamentalist preacher of the 1920 s. a literal interpretation of the Bible, Billy Sunday or Aimee Semple Mc. Pherson

teaching evolution, clash between rural (esp. fundamentalist) and urban values

new marketing techniques (advertising, installment plans, mail order catalogs, etc. )

new American dream defined by possessions, stock market and real estate

taking a loan on profits existing stock to buy more stock

market crashes, stocks lose their value, and nobody can pay back their loans

What happened to all the new manufacturing capacity that had been built up producing war materials during WWI? It transitioned to producing new consumer goods (appliances, clothing, cosmetics, etc. )

vacuum cleaner, washing machine, radio, refrigerator, toaster

Ford & General Motors

demand for roads, faster transportation, closed distances, greater contact

isolationist and pro-business

womanizer, seized alcohol at poker parties, embezzlement by cabinet members, Tea Pot Dome

Coolidge

hands off, pro-ownership

urban, new immigrant, Roman Catholic

1/2 million, the banks

18 th, not very

organized crime (bootleggers)

Jazz, Radio, Movies, Literature of the Lost Generation, Automobiles

Bobbing Hair, wearing shorter skirts, moving out on their own, voting, rejecting the sexual double standard

19 th, no

nursing, teaching, higher level clerical

Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Elderle, Bobby Jones

Charlie Chaplin, Gillespie, Clara Bo, Valentino, Al Jolson, Paul Robeson, Mills

factory, lower clerical, janitorial

the flourishing growth of the arts in Harlem in the 1920’s

Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude Mc. Kay

Was the first time Blacks were able to exert major influence over American culture, gave a voice to the Black experience

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken; disillusioned by destruction of WWI

Louis Sullivan & Frank Lloyd Wright