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1920s The jazz Age
Chap 15
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A Clash of values
1920s saw a clash betweentraditional and modern values
ost !!" America was #ros#erousand con$dent% consumerism was onthe rise
Americans returned to isolationismand nativism
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&esurgence ofnativism and racism
!ho did we hate' "n!!" we hated the(ermans) After !!" we
hated and feared theCommunists andimmigrants)
"mmigrants seen as
threats)
*ew +uotas set torestrict immigration)
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The &ed ,care
After !!"% #eo#le feared thes#read of communism% -!or.ersof the world% /*"T
34olshevi. &evolution in &ussia%19156
conom7 in turmoil after war8govt #rice controls removedled
to high #rices% wor.ers stri.es Americans feared a communist
cons#irac7
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The almer &aids 1919
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almer &aids
After a series of bombings, US Attorney
General Robert Palmer conducts
seeping raids, arresting thousands of
foreigners nation!ide" #any ere $ailed
and%or deported" Ci&il liberties ere
ignored"
'eginning of the (') and *" +dgaroo&er-s long career
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,acco:;anzettiTrial
.o immigrant
anarchist con&icted of
burglary and murder
after a pre$udiced trial
" am su
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ugenics8the -seudo:,cience
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ugenics
Used by nati&ists to argue superiority of
hites"
Said human ine/ualities ere inherited
Used to $ustify sterili0ation of mentally ill or
handicapped Americans
Studies ill be used by a0i Germany inits push to create a master race and
e2terminate 3undesirables4
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&eturn of The KKK
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191> ?u ?lu@ ?lan
Anti:blac.
Anti:Catholic
Anti:ew
Anti:immigrant
wanted to8
-#reserve Americas white rotestantcivilization)*ot just a ,outhern organization% s#readall over the /nited ,tates)
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?ee# America American
e las restrictedimmigration, set /uotasbased on 167 le&els"
#e2ican immigration8
#e2ico e2empt from/uotas9 ta:e or: inagriculture"
Asian immigration;stopped almostcompletely
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The ,co#es -Bon.e7 Trial
Creationism v) volution
ld:fashioned v) Bodern
!illiam ennings 4r7an v) ClarenceDarrow
192> Tennessee ::: Eigh school
teacher ohn ,co#es found guilt7 ofteaching evolution)
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#rohibition
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The ;olstead act
The law that enforced rohibition
Too. authorit7 from the stategovernments and made the Treasur7De#t res#onsible for enforcingrohibition)
"ncreased the role of the federalgovt in law enforcement
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The new American Eero
Sports; baseball,
bo2ing, football,
bas:etball
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Bass Bedia
Radio, nespaper, motion pictures,
maga0ines help create a shared national
culture
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African:American culture
The (reat Bigration
Eundreds of thousands of African Americansleft the ,outh moving to industrial cities
loo.ing for wor. and better lives)
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African:American olitics
African:Americans have fewer votingrestrictions in *orthern cities)
;oting 4locs8 greater concentration of
blac.s voting in the cities) Boresuccess in inFuencing voting) 4lac.stended to vote &e#ublican
*AAC8 continues its $ght againstsegregation% discrimination% andl7nching)
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Earlem &enaissance
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Earlem
An area in *GC where man7 African:
Americans settled) Created a communit7 of racial #ride
and success% #olitical organization%
and artistic develo#ment)
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EarlemEome of AHH
The Cotton Club% the A#ollo% the,avo7
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AHH and 4I/,
A st7le of music that grew out ofDi@ieland% ragtime% and Africans#iritual inFuences)
,7nco#ated% soulful% swingingrh7thms)
Iouis Armstrong% Du.e llington%4essie ,mith% ose#hine 4a.er
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!riters and oets of theEarlem &enaissance
Claude #c
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4lac. nationalism
Promoted blac: pride and unity
=ed by #arcus Gar&ey"
'elie&ed African!Americans could gain economic
and political poer thru +>UCA.)? Also pushed for separation and independence
from hites
Gar&ey est-d the U)A8United egro
)mpro&ement Association Proposed that blac:s e&eryhere should return
to Africa8 3Pan-African4 #o&ement
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#arcus Gar&ey (ederal officials
belie&ed Gar&ey to bedangerous, afraid he
ould incite rebellion
and &iolence"
Gar&ey as arrested
and deported to
*amaica
Tulsa &ace &iot
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Tulsa &ace &iot
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Greenood district of .ulsa destroyed America-s 3'lac:Ball Street4
Riot begins after Tulsa Tribunearticle publishes accountof blac: man attac:ing a hite oman in an ele&ator
Bhite mobs burn Greenood, citi0ens bloc:ed fire dept
from responding ?fficial death toll is 5, but is probably closer to 77"
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