Return to Normalcy The 1920 s were supposed

Return to Normalcy

The 1920 s were supposed to be normal. . . but they were anything but normal.

The Culture War “Normalcy” Under Attack

The Bolshevik Revolution (1917)

POSSIBL Y YOU!

First The Red Scare ^ 1919 -1920

A Slippery Slope

Palmer Raids January, 1920 TARGET: “Radical” Immigrants – Communists – Socialists – Anarchists Thousands Arrested Hundreds Deported A. Mitchell Palmer Attorney General

Suspected Radicals awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island

“The Case Against the Reds” “Upon these two basic certainties, first that the "Reds" were criminal aliens and secondly that the American Government must prevent crime, it was decided that there could be no nice distinctions drawn between theoretical ideals of the radicals and their actual violations of our national laws. ” Palmer Further Reading: http: //chnm. gmu. edu/courses/hist 409/palmer. html

Political Cartoon

Nativism

“Where the Blame Lies” 1891 Political Cartoon

U. S. Immigration 1880 -1889 COMPARE to 1900 -1909

U. S. Immigration 1900 -1909 COMPARE to 1880 -1889

Immigration Restrictions Emergency Quota Act National Origins Act (1921) (1924) 3% 2% Of people from that country living in the U. S. in 1910 Of people from that country living in the U. S. in 1890

Immigrant Arrivals 1921 1925 1928 Eastern Europe 138, 000 10, 000 14, 000 Southern Europe 299, 000 8, 000 22, 000 Asia 25, 000 31, 000 805, 000 4, 000 33, 000 294, 000 40, 000 280, 000 Mexico TOTAL More Immigration Statistics

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial TWO STRIKES: Italian Immigrants Anarchists The Evidence

Protest

The Funeral

Execution

The Funeral Procession

Womanhood Circa 1920

The New Woman Bobbed Hair & Short Skirts

flappers

Flappers § Challenged social norms § Jazz § Short Skirts & Hair § Premarital sex § Double Standard § Discovery of adolescence § Child Labor

JAZZ The music of young adolescent rebellion Louis Armstrong

DANCE PARTY!!!

What’s OUT

What’s IN

SMOKIN’ HOT Photo by hyllna

Hey! Is that MY cigarette?

What’s NEXT? ? ?

Although some saw Flapper culture as a threat to traditional gender roles. . .

Most women were content to stay home and play with their new toys.

Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c. 1921.