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The Roaring TwentiesChapters 20 21

• Chapter 20 Page 618
• Chapter 21 Page 640
• Post WWI America/World
• Social Changes in America

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Time Was The 1920s!

• YouTube - To Live In The 1920's

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Presidents of the 1920s

• 1920-1923Warren Harding

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Presidents of the 1920s

• 1924-1928Calvin Coolidge

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Presidents of the 1920s

• 1928-1932Herbert Hoover

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Scares of the 1920s

• America Retreats into herself
• Isolationism the word of the decade!
• America tired of war
• WWI deaths
• Flu epidemic
• America tries to find a friendlier time

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Red Scare Hits America!

• Czar overthrownBolshevik revolution in 1918
  creates a Communist state in Russia. USSR
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• Long range plan of Communism
• America on alert that the commies are coming!
• Compare to Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and
  Middle Easterners after 9-11.

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Examples of Red Scare

• Sacco-Vanzetti Case
• America has anti-immigrant feeling
• Anarchist becomes a term of the times
• Two Italian immigrants with questionable
  backgrounds charged, convicted and executed for
  crime in Braintree, MA.
• May 1920. Executed 1927
• Background on case

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Raids in America

• Cases like Sacco-Vanzetti lead to creation of
  laws and committees
• Much like McCarthyism of 1950s.
• If you were immigrant, minority, you were a
  target. Much like those targeted in
  Arizonachecking to see if you are a legal
  American.

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Palmer Raids

• America targets known subversives
• Arrests are made
• J.Edgar Hoover makes a name for himself
• This leads to the creation of the FBI.
• KKK reaches all time record numbers.

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J.Edgar Hoover--FBI
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KKK of the 1920s

• YouTube - The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's

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Immigration Causing Concerns

• Immigration from 1919 to 1921 up 600!
• Laws created to cut this
• Emergency Quota Act 1921
• Limited immigration to of what each country had
  in America
• Ceiling for total immigrants allowed