RISE OF NATIVISM
1. Red Scare
➢ Eugene Debs
-Socialist leader
-Imprisoned
➢ Palmer Raids
-US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
-Hunted down communists, socialists, and anarchists (People who opposed any form of gov’t)
-Many foreigners deported
-Trampled civil rights
➢ Mail Bombings
-Many bombs were mailed to gov’t and business leaders
-Public became fearful of Communism taking over
-Led to Palmer Raids
➢ Sacco & Vanzetti
-Italian immigrants and anarchists
-Arrested for robbery and murder in Braintree, MA
-Evidence against them weak
-Judge found them guilty, executed
-Many believed judge was prejudiced against radicals and immigrants
2. KKK
➢ Rise
-Used anti-communism to harass other groups unlike themselves …show more content…
Changes in Education
➢ More people sought higher education
➢ Literacy rate increased
20. Growth of Suburbs
➢ Automobile
-Henry Ford’s Model T
-Allowed faster and further transportation
-Affordable to the general public
-Construction of paved roads, traffic lights, gas stations…
-Helped other industries grow too - steel, rubber, oil, etc…
-Resulted in urban sprawl: cities spreading in all directions
➢ Credit
-Installment Plan: let ppl buy goods over an extended period of time, only paying a certain amount at time of purchase
-Overused, got out of hand
-Superficial economic prosperity
➢ Highway System
-Set up by Federal Aid Road Act
-Highway 66: From LA to Chicago
21. Leisure Time
➢ Vaudeville, Broadway
-Theaters and cinemas
➢ Movies: Silent and voice
-First movie w/ sound: The Jazz Singer
-First animated film w/ sound: Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney)
-“Talkies”
➢ Dancing
-Tap dancing
-The Charleston: energetic dance; wild, flailing movements
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