Period 3 & 7

We will examine the period of change known as the Roaring Twenties and how different groups responded to that change.

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Test Topics Election of 1912 Amendments 16, 17,

18, and 19 Federal Reserve Clayton Anti-Trust Act Allies v. Central Powers Bull Moose Party Reasons America

Enters War Wilson’s Reasons for

War 14 points Schenck V. United

States

League of Nations Ku Klux Klan Immigration Quotas Sacco and Vanzetti Debt Scopes Trial Henry Ford Prohibition Charles Lindbergh F. Scott Fitzgerald Margaret Sanger

Seeing Red› Bolshevik Revolution in Russia spawns

communist party in America› Red scare – nationwide crusade against

people who were Un-American› Free speech was restricted› Sacco and Vanzetti case – jury was

prejudiced against men because they were Italians, atheists, and draft dodgers. Executed in 1927

Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK› Klan spread quickly in the 1920s› Pro “native” American, Pro Protestant› Anti Foreigner, Anti Catholic, Anti

Communist› Numbers rose because of fear of drastic

social change in America

Stemming the Foreign Blood› Emergency Quota Act – European Quota

3% of nationality in 1910› Immigration Act of 1924 – lowered Quota

to 2% and ended unrestricted immigration in America

The Prohibition Experiment› 18th Amendment banned alcohol› Supported by churches and women› Speakeasies replaced saloons› Savings increased and absenteeism from

work drops, increase in organized crime

Monkey Business in Tennessee› John Scopes, school teacher arrested for

teacher evolution› Fundamentalist claimed teaching evolution

was leading to moral breakdown of society

Mass Consumption› Advertising made people want items more› Assembly line made the Model T affordable

to many Americans› Most Americans bought on credit and ran

up a huge debt

Developments› Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

solo› Gugliemo Marconi develops wireless

telegraph› Radio becomes popular and delivers news

and entertainment› Motion picture developed by Edison. The

Great Train Robbery

b

Dynamic Decade› Known as the Jazz Age› Margaret Sanger led

birth control revolution› Flappers were young

women who broke with tradition

› F. Scott Fitzgerald writes the Great Gatsby