1. 1920s in America US Studies

2. Part 1: Movement

3. Economic Boom: Automobiles Cars became cheaper ($390 Model T—$7700 today) 1920s: 15 million sold in USA Installment plan! Assembly line—every 24 seconds Other industries: Wood, glass, metal, oil Service stations, motels, dealerships Housing industry Road building

4. Automobile Ford raised pay $5 day Only color: black

5. Ford Plant

6. The Great Migration

7. Mexican Migration

8. Part 2: Fear

9. Review Sedition Act Freedom of speech; disloyalty curbed Schenck v. US Clear & present danger Russian Revolution Goals: worldwide revolution; overthrow Capitalism

10. Result: Fear 1919 Strikes Seattle Shipyard Strikes: bombings Boston police strike: anarchy Radicalism to blame—must be stopped! Communists trying to take over the US

11. Result: Isolationism

12. Red Scare Palmer Raids Sacco and Vanzetti case

13. Sacco and Vanzetti Case Boston shoe factory paymaster robbed $15,766 taken; paymaster killed Sacco & Vanzetti arrested (anarchists) Sacco’s gun: same model Trial: Vanzetti claimed that he was selling fish Sacco: he was in Boston getting a passport from the Italian consulate and having dinner with friends (Sacco's dinner companions were friends and fellow anarchists) Guilty; Executed

14. Part 3: The Presidents

15. Their Characteristics All Republican (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) All Laissez-Faire All isolationist Believed in immigration quotas

16. Part 4: Media

17. Forms Mass Media (magazines, movies, newspapers, radio) Jazz Music (clubs, records, radio) Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith

18. Radios

19. Harlem Renaissance African-American artistic awakening Sometimes called the New Negro Movement Celebration of Black culture