Ch 15

14.4

Impact of War-

- Inflation- cost of living increased

o Workers want higher wages to keep up=strikes

- Racism- tensions rise as blacks move north for jobs

o Riots- Chicago and elsewhere

Red Scare-

- fear of communism

- Russian Revolution- people think it could happen here

- Palmer Raids

o Gov’t agents raid suspected communists

15.1

Anti-immigrant feelings-

- resentment towards Germans/communists during WWI

- leads to resentment towards all immigrants

Sacco-Vanzetti-

- immigrant/anarchists charged with murder

- convicted on flimsy evidence, maybe just because of the above facts

Changing Values-

- women- short skirts

o work, don’t need men

o stay single longer

o short hair

o dancing

o smoking

o drinking

- music- Jazz- black influence, loud, fast

- dancing- fast, risqué

Christian Fundamentalists-

- religious, want more morals, better values, literal interpretation of the Bible

- against evolution, drinking, new fashions, music

today- Muslim fundamentalists are against western influence in their culture, want more Islamic laws) similar but different from above.

KKK- hits its peak

- rise in membership, becomes very political

- wants to protect the old way of life

Conservatives- want slow or no change

Liberals- want rapid change

Scopes Trial- TN and other states have laws against the teaching of evolution in schools

- John Scopes, charged with breaking the law

o Defended by Clarence Darrow, big shot Chicago lawyer

o Pros by Wm. Jennings Bryan, preacher, ex Pres candidate

- Becomes symbol of the clash of conservative country values and fast modern city values

- Scopes convicted, later overturned

Prohibition- Volstead Act, 18^th Amendment- illegal to make, sell, distribute alcohol

- major expansion of federal power, but enforcement mainly left to the states

- How get it

o Doctor’s prescription

o Bootlegging (Smuggling)

o Make it

o Speakeasies (illegal bars)

- Why fails

o Too many people want to break the law

o Not enough cops

§ Not funded well enough

o Violent crime up, turf wars over distribution rights among gangsters

o KKK helps enforce it (thanks but no thanks)

Economy- great, booming, US business make tons of $

- $ free time trickles down to workers causes rise in entertainment

Sports-

- Baseball

o Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, NY Yankees, tons of home Runs

- College football

o Notre Dame

o Red Grange (U of I)

- Boxing

o Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney

- Auto Racing

o Indy 500 gets big

o More people with cars, now they can relate

Movies

- Silent, black and white

- Charlie Chaplin- comedy

- Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino- male leads

- Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Clara Bow (the “It” girl)- female leads

- 1^st “talkie” 1927, The Jazz Singer

Radio

- 1^st big time station in Pittsburg

- provides news, music, drama, comedy, etc

- 1^st network= NBC

Music

- Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin-ish music

Dancing- the Charleston