The Dark Side of the 1920s

• Intolerance: Unwillingness or refusal to respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.

Examples of Intolerance• Fear of communism (Red Scare)• Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti• Quota system (limits on immigration)• Prohibition (making alcohol illegal)• Organized crime• Rise of the KKK• The Scopes (Monkey) Trial

POLITICAL SPECTRUM

LEFT WING RIGHT WING

LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE

MODERATERADICAL

REVOLUTIONARY:

Wants drastic changeand believes it requiresdrastic action (revolution)

RADICAL

REACTIONARY:

Wants to go back to the way thingswere

DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks in a revolution against Czar Nicholas II. The czar’s family is killed and the Bolsheviks establish the first communist country in the world.

Joseph Stalin

ANARCHISM

Sacco and Vanzetti

The belief that there should be NO government.

RED SCARE

Sacco and Vanzetti

Fear of communism and anarchism in the United States after the Russian Revolution of 1917, especially with regards to European immigrants to the United States.

Two Italian immigrants and anarchists who were accused of murder and put to death.

Led raids to round up anarchists , socialists, and communists for the purpose of deporting them.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

Sacco and Vanzetti

• Who were they and what happened to them?

• What is an “anarchist”?

• How is their story an example of intolerance in the 1920s?

The Red Scare and Palmer Raids

• Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What did he do?

• What’s so scary about “red”?

• How is the “Red Scare and the Palmer Raids” an example of intolerance in the 1920s?

The Quota System

• What is a “quota”?• What was the “quota

system” and what issue did it address?

• How was the quota system an example of intolerance in the 1920s?

The Quota System

PROHIBITON

Speakeasy

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution is passed, which makes illegal the sales and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

Al Capone

It created a market for illegal alcohol (bootleggers, speakeasies, and organized crime)

Prohibition and Organized Crime

• What was Prohibition? • What constitutional

amendment created it?

• How was Prohibition an example of intolerance in the 1920s?

The Reemergence of the KKK

• Why did the KKK all of sudden become popular again in the 1920s?

• How was the new KKK different than the old KKK?

• How was the KKK an example of intolerance in the 1920s?

Northern Response to the Great Migration

• How did whites in the North respond to the influx of blacks to Northern cities?

• How was this an example of intolerance in the 1920s?