Review for Topic.7

Scopes Trial= John T. Scopes, a Tennessee high school biology teacher, was arrested and charged with teaching evolution, violating the Butler Act. Scopes was found guilty and charged with $100 but the verdict was overturned on a technicality, was never brought back to trial, and had his $100 fine returned.
Prohibition: Jan. 1920; Was pushed by women's organizations because of domestic violence and child abuse. 18th Amendment prohibited manufacture & sales of "intoxicating liquor" but however, it did not ban consumptions, possession, or transportation of liquors.

Economic Issues (1920s)= Credit available to consumers but was dangerous & people couldn't believe it. Low interest rates meaning they were charged money to borrow money. Then "Installment Plan" was introduced where you are on a fixed "plan" of how to pay back borrowed money.

Flappers= Women who: had short hair, smoked, showed her gams, shoulders, and cleavage.

Agriculture Issues= Caused by Dust Bowl but was aided by start of mechanism which meant no more crop rotating and made it easier to plant.

Nativism= Native-born Americans who think they are better than foriegners and blamed everythng on them.

Dust Bowl= A period of severe dust storms which damaged a lot of agriculture across America and Canada. Contributing factors included droughts, over farming, and mechanisation. Mechanism has made it easier to rebuild the farmlands because now it meant no more crop rotating.

Sacco & Vanzetti= Italian anarchists convicted of murder and robbery. They were executed on Aug 23, 1927

Immigration Policies (1920s)= Oppositions to quotas disappear due to soldiers returning home from war taking all the jobs available so immigrant workers were less needed. Immigration Act of 1924 was established where 2% limit of each ethnic group from 1890 census would be allowed to migrate to U.S. per year. Asians were banned.
Significant Literary Works (1920s)= Jacob Riis "How The Other Half Lives" - Tells about the living conditions in New York slums in the 1880s. Upton Sinclair "Jungle" - Where he reveals how processed meat is made.
Ralph Nader "Unsafe At Any Speed" - Where he talks about cars and the safety precautions involved. Langston Hughes "Ways of White Folks" - He points out the mistakes of people.

The Great Migration= African Americans migrate from the south and more and more places up north are being occupied by African Americans. In some places, they even have their own little community where they own shops, businesses, and services. Harlem Renaissance occurred; But as African populations were growing, new forms of KKK groups were emerging.

Red Scare= Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin takes Power in Russia, Russia turns in U.S.S.R., People were afraid of "un-american behaviors", examples include being foreign.

Harlem Renaissance= It was the first time African Americans expressed their culture and were proud of it. Jazz was then created.

Labor Issues= A lot of people were unemployed but most were drunks who drank all the time so they didn't look for jobs.

Schneck v. The United States= Espionage & Sedition Acts declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court