Introduction Chapter 17

The 1920’s

The Jazz Age

The Roaring Twenties

Agree or Disagree

Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety – deserve neither!

Benjamin Franklin

Is profiling ever justifiable?Current Issue?

If you worked for the TSA would you inspect “certain” people’s bagsand provide a more thorough search over others or would it just

be random??

What are the general rights of the accused??

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Chapter 17 Main Ideas

• Post War Turmoil

• Prohibition

• Women’s Vote

• Era of Republican Presidents

• New age of consumerism

• Era of Youth

• Jazz Age

• Organized Crime

I. Post War Turmoil• A. America becomes

isolated by choice

• 1. We want to forget the chaos of WWI.

• 2. We become fearful of the perceived next threat - communism.

• 3. Not stepping up to our world leadership role.

• Result will be WWII but also the impact in our own soil.

B. Red Scare

• 1. A wave of anti-communist hysteria that sweeps through the U.S.

• 2. The violence of the Russian Revolution scares U.S. leaders.

• 3. There are 70,000 known member of the communist party.

• 4. Anarchists and communists are plotting against the U.S.

Bomb blast of Attorney GeneralMitchell Palmer’s Home in D.C.June 1919

C. Palmer Raids• 1. There was a growing

radicalism in the U.S.• 2. Some radical individuals

were sending homemade bombs in the mail.

• 3. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer was given authority by Congress to purge these radical elements using the FBI.

• 4. During the raids, many arrests violated civil liberties such as no warrants, no lawyers and only certain immigrant groups were targeted.

• 5. In the end Palmer turned up no hard evidence of a communist conspiracy.

D. Sacco and Vanzetti• 1. Tried for a

double murder in Boston in 1921.

• 2. Only circumstantial evidence.

Judge Thayer

JuryandGuards

• 3. Were executed in 1927 not based on the evidence but on their anarchist beliefs.

• 4. In 1977, fifty years after their execution, Governor Michael Dukakis cleared their names.

Progressives

• A response to the greedy and abusive business practices of industrialized America.

• They stood up for the “little guy”.

• Try to make life better for all in America.

II. Decline of Progressivism

• A. Social Reforms decline during the 1920’s

• 1. Big business becomes popular again.

• B. There are two last social reforms of the Progressive era – Prohibition and Women’s Suffrage.

C. Prohibition• 1. The Temperance

Movement had been gaining momentum in the early 1900’s.

• 2. Saloons and drinking in the U.S. held the image of crime, prostitution, domestic abuse and gambling.

• 3. During The Great War it was patriotic to not drink alcohol.

• 4. Abolish alcohol – abolish societal ills.

Prohibition• By 1905 three states had

passed laws becoming dry.

• By 1916 26 of the 48 states were dry.

• 5. The Volstead Act (18th Amendment) was passed in 1919 and was put into effect January 16, 1920. Outlawed the manufacture, sale or transport of alcohol.

U.S. History

Prohibition

• Results –

• Bootlegging

• Home Brew

• Speakeasies

• Organized crime

• Consumption did drop considerably 30%, however, the rise in crime and economic impact made repeal the logical answer.

D. Women’s Suffrage (vote)

• 1. Experience and contributions in WWI helped to revive the fight for the vote.

• 2. Progressive politicians supported women’s right to vote to help them get re-elected.

Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage

Both Women wereMembers of the National AmericanWomen’s SuffrageAssociation foundedin 1848. 3. Carrie Chapman Catt wantedto focus more on State efforts4. Alice Paul wanted totake the cause to theNational level

Women’s Suffrage

• 5. The 19th Amendment was introduced in June of 1919 and ratification was complete in August of 1920.

• Wisconsin was the third state to ratify.

III. Era of Republican Presidents.

A. It is here where the Republican party becomes more associated with big business and less associated with progressivism/ social issues.

1. Warren Harding 1920-1923 2. Calvin Coolidge

1923-1928

3. Herbert Hoover 1928-1932

Election Results 1920

Election Results - 1920

Election Results - 1924

Election Results - 1928

Election Results - 1928