The Scopes Trial- trial Evolution Vs. religion one of the biggest cases of the century that threatened
Prohibition- beginning of the 1920's pushed by women organizations :produced more bars and consumption
Flappers young women in a short revealing dress verry narrow, with a cigarette , rebelious short hair cut
Economic Issues (1920s)- domestic violence, child abuse... excessive alcohol
Dust Bowl- 15-16 year drought -technology -mechanization
Agriculture Issues- cycle plants and fields but the drought killed it and new technology came so land didn't have recovery time
Immigration Policies (1920s)-only 20% of each specific race was allowed back 20% of when immigrants came in the 1890's's.
Nativism-IMPERIALISTIC ATTITUDE
Significant Literary Works (1920s)
The Great Migration when the blacks migrated from the south to the north
Harlem Renaissance^^^^^^ shift in racial demographics ... racial tension
Sacco and Vanzetti Italian anarchists but on trial for murder ... gangsters
Labor Issues (1920s)Soldiers came back from the war and there were not enough jobs, this promoted alcohol consumption and poverty.
The Red Scare the us was afraid of communism so if someone or anyone foreign seam suspicious of being unamerican-like they were killed
Schneck v. the United States we created patriot acts and quotas came in to play sedition and espionage acts
