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- 1920’s
- Period of Anti-Immigration
- Nativism (anti-foreigner feeling increased
- Red Scare
- The Russian Revolution concerned the U.S.
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
- Many foreigners had their civil rights violated
- Schenck vs the U.S.
- Consumerism
- Inventions and technology made more products available than ever before
- Automobiles
- Consumers buying goods meant more jobs
- The economy was good, BUT
- Installment Plans
- When people quit buying factories sold less, and thus laid off workers, or worse...
- A false sense of prosperity led factory owners into expanding too fast.
- Foreign Policy
- Disillusionment
- U.S. tried to negotiate treaties to avoid future military involvement
- Prohibition
- Prohibition was...
- Gangsters increased in power because they were the one’s who sold the only alcohol
- Government found out it was difficult to legislate morality
- 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933
- Changes in society during the 20’s
- Young people gained independence because of automobiles
- Harlem Renaissance
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Sports and movie stars gain popularity
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