The Roaring Life of the 1920s Chapter 13

The Roaring Life of the 1920’s Chapter 13

Sacco & Vanzetti Case

Sacco & Vanzetti • Accused of murdering a paymaster and guard in holdup. • Accused for sole purpose of being anarchists, and Italians • Evidence was ridiculously flimsy.

Cont’d • • Both had alibis Judge: Guilty by association Given the death sentence. Appealed for 7 years, executed August 23, 1927.

Sacco & Vanzetti

Immigration Cuts • Attempt to keep foreigners out • Established a quota system –Discriminated against eastern and southern Europe • The National Origins Act of 1924 exempted Mexico from quotas

Clash between Science & Religion • Morality based on personal freedom • Fundamentalism vs. Science • Scopes Trial (1925) –Biology teacher fired for teaching evolution in class. –Fined $100, law stays in effect

Scopes Trial

Clarence Darrow

William Jennings Bryan

Prohibition Enforcement • Speakeasies everywhere • Hard to enforce when very few seemed to believe in it. • Repealed w/ the st 21 Amendment

Al Capone

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

Flappers • Old Ways are pushed aside. • Fight against double standards • Women cut hair short (bobbed), wear more revealing clothing. • Begin smoking and drinking illegal alcohol

• Birth Control to raise Living standards for families. (Sanger) • Margaret Mead in Anthropology.

Education Expands • More students going to high school • More courses offered • Much higher literacy rate –Allows Mass Media to have bigger effect on society.

Search For New Heroes • No longer look to politicians, but to entertainment figures • 1927 first “talkie” • Even to mobsters

Charles A. Lindbergh

Literature • The Lost Generation • A sense of disillusionment –Ernest Hemingway • All Quiet on the Western Front –F. Scott Fitzgerald • The Great Gatsby • This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Sinclair Lewis: Babbit –Absurdities of small town life

Harlem Renaissance • Black Writers and musicians based in Harlem. • Celebrate Black life • Beginnings of Jazz (Cotton Club) –Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith

Greenwich Village • Artists, and intellectuals flock to this area of Manhattan • Bohemian lifestyle: artistic and unconventional

Political Shifts • NAACP organizes protest march in N. Y. – Able to keep racist judge from Supreme Court – Anti-lynching fights • A-A’s vote Republican – The party of Lincoln • Marcus Garvey urges separation. Return to Africa movement – Separation movement

Marcus Garvey

The Return of the KKK • • Membership up to 2 million in 1925. March in Washington D. C. “Keep the Negro in his place. ” Declines again with new restrictions on immigration and scandals.