Scopes Trail:
- Tennesse V. scopes
- Case in 1925, teacher taught evolution
- John Scopes was found guilty
- All over the media
Prohibition:
- prohibits alcohol and drinking
- Bootleggers
- Drinks were available at speakeasies
- Sale of alcohol was illegal
Flappers:
- "New Breed" of women
- Revealing clothing
- shorter skirts
- Engaged in the nightlife
- Found at speakeasies
- Wore A LOT of make-up
- Western, single, middle class women
Economic issues:
- stock market speculation
- Over production
- False credit
- Great depression
- Credit made available
- Consumer demands
Dust Bowl:
- Dirty thirties
- Dust storms
- Drought of 1930's
- Great American desert
- Central and northern plains
Agricultural issues
- Soil overused
- No crop rotation
- decrease in price
Immigration Policies:
-Red scare
- immigrant law
- qouta 2%
-Asains were banned
- reduced number of immigrants
Significant literary works (1920's)
-Ralph Nader: Unsafe at any speed
- Jacob Reese: How the other half lives
-Upton Sinclair: Jungle
Great Migration
-shift in racial demographics
-Seeking jobs
- Escape rasicm
- rural South to city North
- Segragation
- Descrimination
Harlem Renaissance
- Writers, artist, novels poetry etc.
- Era
- "New Negro Movement"
- Cultural movement
- Explore there identites
- African American Traditions
- Celebration
Italian Anarchist
- convicted of murder during an armed robbery
- italian immigrants
- 2 trials
- arrested on May 5th 1920
-formed a defense committee
Labor issues (1920's)
- Strikes
- Less work time
- less money
Red Scare
- Bolshevik revolution
- Russia becomes soviet union
- Become afraid of anything not American
-Lenin was a communist/dictator
Schenck V. U.s.
- Espionage and sedition
- acts were declared constitutional by supreme court
