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Jazz Age. 1921-29. Chapter Seven.
Nativism resurges after the war.
Backlash against recent immigrants.
Economy in recession.
Army Vets couldn’t get jobs.
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
• Accused of murder and robbing a shoe company.
• Being confirmed anarchists assured their convictions.
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Eugenics Movement.
• Pseudo-Science. “Breed out inferior people(s).”
• Hitler was a fan as was Woodrow Wilson.
• During these bad economic times the Ku Klux Klan regrouped. They hated people of color, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.
Controlling Immigration.
• National Origins Act of 1924.• Set quotas as to how many immigrants could
come from each country.• Hispanic immigration was slow down by the
above act. • A labor shortage developed in California and
the South West.• Hispanics/immigrants were barred from the
U.S. work force.
Women in the 1920’s.
• Flappers! What a scandal!
• Young and stylish.
• Rail thin.
• Smoked/Drank illegal alcohol.
• Revealing dress.
• Worked outside the home.
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Fundamentalist Movement.
• Fundamentalist beliefs:
• Bible is true without error.
• People derived their moral behavior from God, not society.
• Rejected Evolution and embraced Creationism.
Aimee Semple McPherson.
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Scopes Trail-1925.
• John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in in high school.
• William Jennings Bryan was prosecutor and Clarence Darrow was the defense attorney.
• Darrow put Bryan on the stand!
Prohibition-Eighteenth Amendment-1920-1933.
• Volstead Act.
• U.S. Treasury would enforce prohibition.
• “Speakeasies” sprouted up in every city.
• Organized crime made millions and turf wars killed many.
• The start of the Drive By Shootings!
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AL Capone A.K.A Scarface.
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African-American Culture.
• Harlem Renaissance.
• Writers:
• Claude McKay-Poet
• Langston Hughes-Poet/Author.
Langston Hughes-A Raisin In The Sun.
• What happens to a dream deferred?• Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?• Or fester like a sore-- And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat? • Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy
sweet?• Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or
does it explode?
Jazz, Blues, And Jazz.
• Jazz was invented in America.
• It’s a mix of Dixieland and Ragtime.
• Blues came from African-American spirituals.
• The Cotton Club was the most important Club for music in New York City.
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African-American Politics.
• NAACP battles lynching.
• Black voting in the north strengthened the Republican Party.
• Marcus Garvey created “Black Nationalism.”
• Glorified black pride and unity.
• Stressed the need for education.
More Marcus Garvey….• Advocated separation and
independence from whites.
• He wanted to create a settlement in Liberia.
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