RED SCARE

• The red scare started in the 1920's.
• Fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
• The first red scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

PALMER RAIDS

• Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists.
• More than 500 foreign citizens were deported

SACCO/VANZETTI TRIAL

• Italian-born anarchists who were convinced of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts in 1920

Ku KLUX KLAN

• 3 distinct past and present organizations in the US
• Have cr currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration.
• Historically expressed through terrorism

AUTOMOBILE

HENRY FORD

• American industrialist.
• Founder of ford motor company.
• Sponsor of development of assembly line technique of mass production.
• 1863-1947

ASSEMBLY LINE

• Manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in sequential manner.

RISE OF NEW INDUSTRIES

• Started during the first 30 years of the 1800's.
• Machines and predetermined tasks and producing items to be shipped and be sold elsewhere.

PROHIBITION

18TH AMMENDMENT

• Banned manufactured, sale, and transportation for alcohol.
• Ratified in January 16, 1919

FLAPPERS

• New breed of young western women in 1920's.
• Wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz.
• We're seen as a brash for wearing excessive makeup.

ORGANIZED CRIME

• Group of terms which categorized transnational, national,or local groupings.
• Highly centralized enterprises
• Ran by criminals, who intend, to ingage in illegal activity.

SPEAK-EUSIES

• Establishment that illegally sells Alcoholic beverages.

21'S AMMENDMENT

• Repealed the 18th amendment to the United States constitution.
• Had mandated nationwide prohibition on liquor

SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL

• Was famous American legal case in 1925.
• High school teacher, john scopes, was accused of violating Tennessees betel act

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

• Three time presidential candidate
• Argued for prosecution

CLARENCE DARROW

• Saved the child killers Nathan Leopoldo and lobe from the death penalty

OUTCOME OF THE MONKEY TRIALS

• Scopes was guilty
• Conviction was appealed
• Prosecution decided not retry scopes

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

• Cultural movement that spanned the 1920's
• At the time was known as the "New Negro Movement"
• Centered in the middle of Harlem neighborhood of New York

LANGSTON HUGHES

• American poet, social activist novelist playwright and columnist
• He was earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry

TIN-PAN ALLEY

• Name given to the collection of New York City music publishers
• Song writers who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th centuary

GREAT MIGRATION

• Movement of six million African Americans out if the rural southern United States
• Lasted up until 1960's

JAZZ

• Music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century
• Roots lie in the combining by African Americans of certain European harmony and form elements

HEROES OF 1920'S

BABE RUTH

• Saved our national past time from ruin

JACK DEMPSEY

• Had been a war hero during World War One
• Rich and successful, although average guy

CHARLES LINDBERGH

• First person in history to fly overAtlantic and be in New York one day and in Paris the next
• U.S. Army air corps reserve officer
• Awarded the nations highest military decoration