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Roaring Twenties
Signs of Trouble!!
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Under the surface of the good times millions were “steadily sinking…”Many Americans did not share in the boom of the 1920s:
Coal workers faced hard times, oil replaced coal.
Workers in the clothing industry suffered due to changes in women’s fashion
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Farmers suffer• During WWI, European
countries needed American farm products– prices went up!
• After WWI, Europe was able to produce for their own needs- prices went down
• Farmers were unable to pay off their debt.
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Labor Unions Suffer• After WWI workers
demanded high wages Owners were unable to meet the demands
• Workers went on strike• The US government did not
support these strikes.
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The Red ScareAfter WWI, many Americans are afraid of communists and Anarchists. – Communists: an economic and
political system in which the government controls the means of production. Single party rules by force and oppression.
– Anarchist: people who oppose organized government.
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Sacco & Vanzetti TrialThe Red Scare reaches a climax with the trial of two Italian Immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. – Both are tried for murder.– Despite little evidence, both are
convicted and sentenced to death. – US is fearful of immigrants who
could be communists and anarchists.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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Limits on Immigration• Americans did not want
Immigrants– Fear of losing jobs and
lowering wages– Fear of anarchist and
communist• Quota Act of 1921
– Placed limits on immigration
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Social Conflict
1925 Scopes Trial • John Scopes,
Biology Teacher• Creationism vs.
Evolution • Trial gains National
Attention• Old vs. New Social
Values
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Social ConflictGreat Migration• Many Blacks leave the
segregated South to find work in the North and West.
• Ku Klux Klan has its highest membership of all time.
• Marcus Garvey starts the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). – Back to Africa Campaign
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Marcus Garvey
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1927 – 50,000 Ku Klux Klan members
march on Washington, DC
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Election of 1928
Republican- Herbert Hoover
Democrat- Alfred E Smith
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1928 Election• Herbert Hoover wins by a land slide