The _______ 20’s
“Brother can you
spare a dime?”
The 1920's were a prosperous time known as the_________, and the _____ ______ Age of Wonderful Nonsense.
• Nativists used the idea of_________, the false science of improvement of ______ ______, to give support to their arguments against immigration.
• Nativists stressed that:
CONGRESS LIMITS IMMIGRATION
• The _________ ______ _____________ limited immigration to 3 percent of the total number of people in any ethnic group already living in the USA.
• The ________ _______ ______of ______ made immigrant restriction a permanent policy.
• The ACT EXCUSED immigrants from the ________ ____ of the United States. (_______)
• The immigration acts of 1921 & 1924 reduced the labor pool in the U.S. Employers needed laborers for farming, mining, & railroad work. MEXICAN immigrants began pouring into the USA between 1914 & the end of the 1920s.
Sacco and Vanzetti
• The __ ____ _____(_ _ _) led the movement to ________ immigration.
• The Klan not only targeted the ______ _______but also _______, _____, _________ and other groups believed to have “__- ___________” values.
________________________
• ______________: Feared the new ethics of the 20s. Many of these people came from _____ _______ towns & joined this ____________ movement.
• Fundamentalists believed in CREATIONISM –
______ - _____ _____• Scopes taught __________ and was arrested• Trial opened on _______, ___ _____and
became a national sensation• ________ Darrow was hired by the ACLU to defend
Scopes• William ________ ______was the special prosecutor• Scopes did not deny teaching evolution• Trial was really about _________ ___ ________
• _______ _________, or large-scale product manufacturing usually done by machinery, increased the supply of goods and decreased costs.
• The ________ ______, used by _______ _____ __________ manufacturing efficiency by dividing up operations into simple tasks.
• The _______ __ and Henry _______ increased workers’ wages and reduced the workday to gain workers’ ________ and to ________ union organizers.
Domino Effect• Other Industries grew because of the Car• ______…Rubber industry• Gas…___ _______• _______…labor needed• _______ _______…labor
Farmers ______ _____ _____ ______because
there was a ______ of _____ after the war. There was _____ ____ ____ _______.
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• Blacks:
• Black _______ began to form
• In ____, the _______th Amendment passed the Act of Prohibition, which made the ________ __, the _________ of, and the ______ of ______ _____.
• The intent of the Amendment was to _____ ____ _____ _____and to ______ the ________ way of _____, but…
______________
____________
• To ______ alcohol _______, people went ________ to _______ bars call ___________ (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
• To be ______ a ____ or _________had to be given
• ________ major city had it’s gang
• _____ _______ __________ business in ________made over $___ million a year
• Due to gang violence, only _______ of Americans ________ Prohibition by ______
• Prohibition was _______in ____ by the _____ Amendment
_______ _______