USH U4 - 1920s pt. 3

​List out as many characteristics and events as you can about the 1920s.

​Do Now

​The First Red Scare 1920s

• ​Russia withdrew from WWI, then became a communist country known as - The Soviet Union (USSR)

• Leaders in USSR threatened to spread Communism to all corners of the globe

• Small number of American immigrants wanted to topple U.S. Government - these would be marked as THE REDS or Anarchists

• Country panicked​

​Attorney General of U.S. - A. Mitchell Palmer

• His house was bombed

• Started crusade to rid the country of anarchists and communist sympathizers

• Not entirely constitutional...few warrants, many deportations, public could report people

​​Palmer Raids

Multiple Choice

What was the primary reason for the raids described in this excerpt?

• To prevent workers from joining labor organizations

• To block civil rights advocates from staging public protests

• To suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges

• To halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals

In the 1920s, Congress passed many immigration quotas.

• Targetted to slow immigration from South + East Europe & Asia

• National Origins Act dropped immigration from certain countries at 3% of the 1890 census (before immigration expanded)

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​Immigration Quotas

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​Intention of laws? Less "uneducated" and "unskilled" new immigrants. Provide for better paying jobs for naturalized Americans. Championed by Nativists

​-PPL fearful of REDS too

Outcome? No real wage gains throughout 1920s, more immigration from Latin America

Multiple Choice

Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because --

• assimilation programs in the United States had been unsuccessful

• economic decline had increased the competition for jobs

• communists were infiltrating the United States

• political machines had too much power in urban areas

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Sacco & Vanzetti

• Two anarchist immigrants

• Security guard killed at store, ​both men arrested

• Court case very weak, but RED SCARE and NATIVISM sentiments --> Quick execution

​Infamous Court Cases

Scopes "Monkey Trial​

• ​Public schools in Tennesse outlawed teaching of evolution

• Science Teacher, John Scopes, taught it anyway

• Court case found him guilty (which he was)

• Attention on case revealed different values between urban and rural folks

• MODERN vs FUNDAMENTAL/TRADITIONAL​

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​​Rise of Aircraft

​After WWI, question over viability of airplanes was answered when the US Postal Service would begin using planes to speed up deliveries. Soon thereafter passenger aircraft caught on for the wealthy.

• 1923 - Charles Lindbergh would be first to fly SOLO ACROSS ATLANTIC, landing in Paris & becoming an international celebrity​

Match

Match the following 1920s themes to pictures/cartoons related

Sign outside court for Scopes Monkey Trial

Two anarchists executed without much evidence for murdering a security guard

1920s nativism that led to immigration quotas

Calling a labor strike amid 1st red scare dangerous

Law enforcement observing the disposal of illegal liquor

• Sign outside court for Scopes Monkey Trial

• Two anarchists executed without much evidence for murdering a security guard

• 1920s nativism that led to immigration quotas

• Calling a labor strike amid 1st red scare dangerous

• Law enforcement observing the disposal of illegal liquor