The Roaring 20’s

1. TheRoaring 20’s “Happy Days Are Here Again”

2. Moving into 1920 • US soldiers sent to, in 1918, return from the Soviet Union. (Finally Peace) • Country is recovering from losses of Spanish Flu of 1918 • The economy begins to slowly progress • Racial tensions from the Red Summer of 1919 go back “in hiding” • The US has emerged as a major world power • People in are debating new theories (physics, astronomy, natural selection, etc. • City life Became “fast moving” and cosmopolitan.

3. Prohibition and Speakeasies • 18th Amendment outlaws alcohol • Moonshiners, bootleggers and Rumrunners create and distribute the forbidden alcohol. • Respect for law declines • Outlaws considers folk heroes • Alcohol crosses all socio - economic classes..

4. Rise of Organized Crime • Al Capone created and controlled as many as 10,000 speakeasies • His bootlegging brought in 60 million dollars a year. • Violence Erupts in Chicago 522 dead gang members Makes Capone a legend. • Finally arrested and sent to jail in 1933 on Tax evasion

5. Darwin Evolution Attack on Religion/ Religion Attack on Science • Scopes “Monkey” Trial” • Scopes, a Teacher, on trial for teaching Natural Selection • Movie Inherit the wind shows trial. • Debate continues today /w IntelligentDesign.

6. Women of the Twenties • After leaving the home during wartime, women took office jobs, industrial jobs along side men. • Flappers became the trendsetters with tight clothes, stocking, pumps and pearls, doing the Charleston • The Double standard is questioned. Causal dating emerges. Standard test women’s morals. • Birth Control info comes available NBCL1921

7. Radio and Culture • Radio broadcasts, newsentertainment, sports • The term Airwaves is coined • Charles Limburg in the Spirit of St. Louis crosses the Atlantic in1927 • Babe Ruth has his homeRun record during the 20’s

8. The Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration brings many African American to major cities during the war. Post war a cultural explosion would occur. • Politically James Weldon Johnson fought for justice, anti discrimination, and preached pride. • The Cotton Club would be home to great musicians, singers and dances, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith (Jazz in born!!)

9. Post War Struggle During the Twenties • America becomes isolationist staying out of foreign affairs • Nativism – Swept the nation a prejudice against and (fear of foreign born people.)Rise of the KKK • The Quota system to limit people to enter US • Panic, caused by the Lenin and his followers called the Bolsheviks in the USSR. Their Flag was red. They demanded a world wide communist revolution. • In America A communist party was formed. Radicals mailed bombs to government offices. The Red Scare was born

11. Palmer Raids • Suspected Anarchists (people who oppose government) Socialist, and communists were hunted down and exported without trial by Attorney General Palmer and his assistant J. Edgar Hoover. • J. Edgar Hoover would start the FBI, G Men, fight crime and trample on civil rights up to and past the Kennedy administration. (Later it was found out that he was a transvestite.)

12. Unions Lose Power • Miners, police, steel workersall stage strike with virtual wars breaking out. Unions are seen as communist or socialist organizations filled with immigrants not loyal to the USA