Topic 7

The Scopes Trial-  John Scopes was a teacher who got arrested for teaching evolution to his students


Prohibition-  Stop the use of alcohol,
-It was hard to enforce because:

1. Did not ban:

• possession
• consumption
• transportation

  2.  IRS enforced prohibition

-18th amendment was published which banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

-Prohibition was pushed by Women Organizations for two reasons: because the increase of :
  1. Domestic Violence
  2. Child Abuse                     
-Henry Ford was also agreeing with women organizations because like company was not as productive when his workers came to work hungover.

Flappers: Women who were considered the "revels"

• short haired
• smoking/drinking in public
• wore exposing clothing (such as shoulders, cleavage)
• gams (legs) showing

Economic Issues:

• people were starting to have less money due to the fact that credit was first introduced to the people and they went crazy/put people in debts.
• low interest rates
• introduction of the Installment Plan
• no discretionary rate
• buying on margins
• stocks bought not always benefited a person, when market was down they would end up losing a lot of money!

Dust Bowl: Great plains where farming land was no longer good. Dust was picked up from the ground and created HUGE clouds of dust/storm that travelled pretty far, digging up everything on its way.


Immigration Policies:
Immigration restrictions were out to the public

1. US could thrive without immigrants
2. Opposition to quotas disappeared

Nativism: Americans had rights to everything/immigrants had restrictions. American workers were under the law, protected, and safe, but immigrants were not they had no protection at all when working.

Significant Literary Works:  all draw attention to other people

1. Jacob A. Riis - was about the other side of the great depression, made people realize what was actually going on
2. Upton Sinclair - meat packing company, talks about what went on at a meat packaging factory
3. Ralph Nader - about how cars were dangerous and presented the idea of seat belts

 The Great Migration: First time ever African American gathered up and migrated from SOUTH------>NORTH as a whole.

Harlem Renaissance: African Americans came together as a group and proudly showed off their culture, music, art, poetry, literature, etc,. It was like an awakening time for African Americans.

Sacco and Vanzetti: Italian Anarchists

Labor Issues: Soldiers went back home and had to start all over, with them back factories had way too many workers, meaning they had to start to lay off some people, and were most immigrants and women. This was also the time when Great depression was starting to happen.

The Red Scare: Bolshevik Revolution- Lenin takes over power in Russia (father Lenin).. Russia goes away; USSR is formed. Americans were afraid of those who displayed un-american behaviors especially one from foreign countries

Schneck v. the United States: Espionage and Sedition Acts were declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.