The document summarizes key events and topics of the 1920s in the United States, including the Palmer Raids targeting radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan targeting immigrants and minorities, major labor strikes, scandals during the Harding presidency, Prohibition and the rise of gangsters, the Scopes Monkey Trial debating evolution, and the growth of entertainment like radio, movies, and sports in the decade. It also discusses the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities and the growth of the NAACP during this period.

1. The Roaring 20s

2. Topics Included in Presentation: Communism and Red Scare Palmer Raids, Sacco + Vanzetti, KKK Republican Presidents in 1920s Labor Strikes Presidents of the 1920s Prohibition and Gangsters Scopes Monkey Trial Entertainment Great Migration and NAACP

3. USSR Power Struggle

4. Palmer Raids Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ordered these raids 2 Results of: Government deported 100s of radicals Not much evidence of any radical plots and civil rights of many were violated

5. Sacco and Vanzetti Italian Immigrants executed for murder Significance: fear of foreigners in United States

6. Ku Klux Klan Targets in the 1920s: Blacks Immigrants = Jews and Catholics

7. Boston Police Strike Entire police department goes on strike and are fired and replaced by new policemen.

8. Steel Mill Strike Violent strike where the government broke up the steel workers union

9. Coal Miners Strike John L. Lewis led a successful strike of the nation’s coal miners and becomes a powerful labor leader.

10. Warren Harding Republican Senator from Ohio. (29 th ) Famous “...return to normalcy…” speech. Ohio gang – led to many scandals in the Harding presidency Dies in office in 1923

11. Teapot Dome Scandal Teapot Dome, Wyoming had government owned oil fields Secretary of Interior Albert Fall leased the land to oil executives who had bribed him. Fall became 1 st cabinet officer to go to jail.

12. Calvin Coolidge “ Silent Cal” – 30th Takes over Presidency when Harding dies. Wins reelection in 1924 but does not run for reelection in 1928. “ The business of America is business!!”

13. Route 66

14. Aviation Heroes

15. Speakeasies

16. “ You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

17. Early Mobsters....

18. Mafia in the United States 5 Big Families Commission Gambino Lucchese Bonanno Colombo Genovese

19. Philadelphia Mob The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania faction of La Cosa Nostra has been one of the strongest families in the American Cosa Nostra since its start in 1911. Salvatore Sabella was sent to Philadelphia by the bosses of the Sicilian Mafia to organize the city's rackets.

20. What was the controversial issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925? Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Man “evolved” from apes.

21. Darrow + Bryan

22. Flappers

24. 1 st Radio Broadcast - 1920 First Broadcast At 6:00pm, on Tuesday, November 2, 1920, a few men in a shack changed the course of history. Pittsburgh, PA.

25. Sports Stars of the 20's

26. 1 st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean by 33 hours and 39 minutes Received a prize of $25,000 Charles Lindbergh

28. Early Movies CLICK on the picture for a Youtube video for each movie

29. The Jazz Singer (1927) The 1 st feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue. Starred Al Jolson Marked the decline of the silent film era

32. Movement of African-Americans from the South to Urban areas of United States More than 1.5 million 1914 – 1930 Escape racism, find better jobs, overall better life in the North The Great Migration

34. N ational A ssociation for the A dvancement of C olored P eople James Weldon Johnson was instrumental in increasing the NAACP's membership from 9,000 to almost 90,000. NAACP