The Scopes Trial
- John Scopes high school science taught evolution
- Put on trial
- Pleaded guilty
- Fined $100, which was later revoked because the judge sentenced it rather than the jury
- The law teaching revolution was later revoked
Prohibition
- Went into effect January 1920
- 18th Amendment
- Banned manufacture and sale of "intoxicating liquors"
- Did NOT ban possession, consumption, or transportation of liquor.
- Henry Ford pushed for it because workers were not productive when they came to work drunk
- Women pushed for it to decrease domestic violence
- It was overall ineffective, drinking rates increased after prohibition was put into play
Flappers
- seductive rebelling women of the 1920s
- short hair
- smoking and drinking publically
- dressed suggestively: v-neck, shoulders and legs showing
Economic Issues
- Jobs limited
- Dust Bowl took a toll economically and agriculturally
Dust Bowl
- On the Great Plains [Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska]
- Took a huge toll economically and agriculturally
- Dust storms swept away all farm lands, making them unusable
- Caused by droughts, overfarming, no crop rotation, and mechanization
Agricultural Issues
- The Dust Bowl made agriculture nearly impossible
- However, before that farmers failed to practice crop rotation, ultimately destroying soil
- mechanization- machines taking over what men would usually do
Immigration Policies
- Immigration restrictions came about when the US could thrive without immigrants and oppostion to quotas disappeared
- The Immigration Act of 1924
- Ethnic groups limited to 2% of count from the 1890 census
- Asians banned entirely
Nativism
- Americans would be more likely to be hired over foreigners
Significant Literary Works (1920s)
- How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis [changed safety codes in city]
- Jungle - Upton Sinclair [undercover in meat-packing factories]
- Unsafe at Any Speed- Ralph Nader [looks at use of safety devices in vehicles]
The Great Migration
- Many African Americans moved from the South to the North
- In search of jobs and oppurtunity
- To escape racism
- Because of this, Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
- After Great Migration
- African Americans, for the first time, came out and celebrated their culture
- Literary works such as The Ways of the White Folks by Langston Hughes
Sacco and Venzetti
- Italian immigrants
- Anarchists
- Followers of Luige
- Arrested for robbing and killing a man
Labor Issues (1920s)
- Jobs were limited due to the Great Migration and demobilization
- Immigrants and African Americans could only find work after Americans went on strike
The Red Scare
- People were afraid of those who acted "un-American"
- Especially afraid of foreigners
Schneck v. The United States
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