topic 7 concept guide

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes a Tennessee high school teacher, was arrested for attempting to teach his students evolution rather than religion. Scopes was guilty and charged with $100 fine and time in jail but the trail was supposed to be redone on a technicality but was never brought back to trial and he got his $100 back.

Prohibition: An act pushed by women organizations because domestic violence and child abuse were rising. The 18th Amendment limited the manufacture & sale of "intoxicating liquor" but, it did not ban the consumptions, possession, or transportation of liquors. This seems extremely strange but, it was part of the reason Speakeasies started to appear. Speakeasies were a underground (secretive) bar that people would go to for alcohol. In 1932 FDR ran for president and used repealing 18th amendment as his slogan to hopefully win election and passed the 22nd amendment which nullified the 18th.

Flappers: Women who had shorter hair,cleavage, smoked cigarettes, showed her legs, shoulders, and back .

Economic Issues (1920s): Credit became available to consumers but was misused frequently by everyone. Low interest rates on the credit cards. Then a Installment Plan was introduced where you are on a set plan of how to pay back borrowed money.

Dust Bowl: A time of severe dust storms which damaged a lot of property and peoples lives across the midwest. The biggest reasons that the dustbowl started is because of droughts, over farming, and mechanisation. Mechanism had made the work of one man do the work of 20 men and because of that it allowed them to harvest the crops and replant the crops so quickly that they never gave the crops time to recover so the soil would just blow away with the wind.

Agriculture Issues: Were caused by the dustbowl and the dustbowl was mostly cause by mechanisms being invented, which meant people didnt crop rotate and made it easier to plant.

Immigration Policies (1920s): The Immigration Act of 1924 was established where there was a 2% limit of each ethnic group from 1890 census that would be allowed to migrate to U.S. per year.

Nativism: Native-born Americans who think they are better than foriegners

Significant Literary Works (1920s): Ralph Nader: "Unsafe At Any Speed" - Where he talks about cars and how dangerous they are when driving fast. Jacob Riis: " Upton Sinclair: "Jungle" Where he shows how processed meat is made."How The Other Half Lives" - Tells about the living conditions in New York slums in the 1880s Langston Hughes: "Ways of White Folks" - He shows how much racism can destroy people.

Harlem Renaissance: It was the first time African Americans showed their culture and were proud of it.

Sacco & Vanzetti: Italian anarchists convicted of murder and robbery and were executed even though some would say they were innocent.

Labor Issues: A lot of people were unemployed but most were drunks.

Red Scare: The Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin takes Power in Russia, People were afraid of communism and thought foreigners were communists.

Schneck v. The United States: was a trial about schneck accused of being a spy.