Chapter 24 The Jazz Age Section 1 Time of Turmoil
Chapter 24 The Jazz Age
Feb 22, 2016
Chapter 24 The Jazz Age. Section 1 Time of Turmoil. RECALL…. Russian Revolution. Treaty of Versailles. Key Terms. c apitalism – an economic system based on private property & free enterprise a narchist – people who b elieve there should be no government (bombings - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Chapter 24The Jazz Age
Section 1Time of Turmoil
RECALL…Russian Revolution
Treaty of Versailles
Key Termscapitalism – an economic system based
on private property & free enterprise
anarchist – people who believe there should be no government (bombings frightened Americans)
deport – to be expelled from a country
The Red ScareA period when the government went after “Reds”or Communists….
A. Mitchell Palmer/J. Edgar Hoover
*Arrested or deported people suspected of being Communists / anarchists*ransacked homes, offices, and seized records
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two men accused of robbing a shoe factory and killing a guard and paymaster.Police arrested…they were tried & convicted – sentenced to death by electric chair. (Sacco proven guilty in 1961)
Strike – steel workers
Higher wagesEight-Hour work day
350,000 workers went on strike
Strike – policemen in Boston 1919
What happened???
Governor Calvin Coolidge
“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”
Policemen fired…
A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood
Union of Sleeping Car Porters, 1930s
He later will become a leader of civil
rights in the 1950s and 1960s
Marcus GarveyOpposed integrationSupported a back-to-Africa movement in the 1920sGained great influence among the urban poor
“to be a Negro is no disgrace, but an honor.”
“He taught African Americans to admire and praise black things and black people.”
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