Sachmooooo!!!!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2fXY_9gmNE

Swiss Cheese Notes!!!

Swiss Cheese Notes:notes with holes!!!

These notes will follow section 4 in a mini-packet I’ll hand out… answer the Qs accordingly. THESE ARE YOUR NOTES.

The Alligator Effect• While the rich got richer with investing, the poor got

poorer & more isolated• At the height of “Coolidge Prosperity” more than half of

the U.S. families earned less than $2,000 per year• Yet another Gilded Age

$$ RICH $$

POOR

Perils of Prosperity

• Workers in the clothing industry were hurt by changes in women’s fashions– Shorter skirts = less cloth needed

• Coal miners faced hard times– Oil replaced coal as the major source of energy

• Railroads slashed jobs– Cars, trucks, roads & highways

Sacco & Vanzetti• 2 Italian immigrants in Massachusetts • Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested for robbery &

murder in 1920• The 2 men admitted to being anarchists but insisted they didn’t

commit any crime• A jury convicted them & they were sentenced to death

• The trial was a symbol of nativism that swept the country • It raised issues of what it meant to receive a “fair trial”– An openly prejudice judge– Limited evidence against both men– Many thought they were convicted because they were immigrants– (have you ever encountered such a perspective?)

Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti

6 years go by of waiting in jail, then they are executed• Many questioned the judiciary system• Many saw it as a sign that the U.S. had to keep out

dangerous radicals

Swiss Cheese Notes!!!

Swiss Cheese Notes:notes with holes!!!

YOUR TURN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE