The Roaring 20s

*The Roaring

20s

*The 1920s*The Great Migration of African

American increased the visibility of African American culture in the US

*During the 1920s the KKK saw an influx in membership

*The 20s saw a rise in consumer goods and spending on credit

*By the end of the 1920s a radio was in every household

*The most familiar symbol of the era is the flapper: young women who wore bobbed hair, short skirts, they drank, smoked, and swore

*the 1920s saw the rise of the Jazz Age and the older generation hated it

* Prohibition was seen by young people as a way to rebel against the older generation

*The Red Scare

*A small portion of the American Communist party wanted to overthrow the government

*1919 and 1920 anarchists delivered a series of bombs to political officials homes and offices

*The bombings of 1919 and 1920 lead to mass hysteria against communist and radicals

*Soon public support warranted government officials to begin attacking anarchists and foreigners in this country this was the “Red Scare”

*The government in the 1920s began to deport radicals and foreigners out of the country, in what would be known as the “Palmer Raids”

*Teapot Dome Scandal

*Teapot Dome Scandal took place during the Warren Harding Presidency

*Harding was not corrupt but surrounded himself with people who were, some of his Ohio friends

*Harding’s Attorney General would accept bribes and sell favors

* Teapot Dome Scandal involved the Secretary of the Interior illegally leasing the US Naval Reserve for 300,000 dollars worth in bribes

*The scandal was revealed after Harding's death

* The secretary of interior was sentenced to one year in prison and a fined

* The navy recovered 12 million dollars after the cancelation of the Teapot Dome Lease

*19th Amendment

*The movement for suffrage began in 1848 at Seneca Falls

*Almost all women’s rights movements after Seneca Falls made voting a top priority

*It took 70 years for the official right to vote

*Ratified on August 18, 1920

*It gave American women the right to vote

*This is also known as women’s suffrage

*Scopes Trial

*It is also called the “trial of the century”

*Trial revolved around the issue of teaching evolution in school

*Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas had legal regulations on the subject

*John T. Scopes taught evolution in the school in Tennessee and was indicted

*William Jennings Bryan was set to prosecute him and Clarence Darrow offered his service to the defense

*American Civil Liberties Union hoped to use this to test the boundaries of free speech

*The case became a public contest of majority rule

*This case represents traditionalism vs. modernism (the cultural civil war)

*Harlem Renaissance

*Was a celebration of black culture and achievement

*Harlem contained poverty but boomed with talent

*Major leaders were writers, actors, poets, playwrights, musicians

*Harlem is were patrons would go to enjoy jazz at local clubs

*Marcus Garvey preached black pride and urged African Americans to return to Africa

*W.E.B Dubois preached in black pride but also being an American

*In Langston Hughes writings he would talk about racial pride & social justice

*Even though segregation was a big part of the country, clubs in Harlem usually contained all white audiences