Scopes Trial : John T Scopes, A school teacher, put on trial for teaching evolution instead of religion
Prohibition : 18th Amendment, restricted manufacturing, transportation, and selling of alcohol. Resulted in bootlegging liquor and hidden bars, and gangster Al Capone rose.
Flappers : Women with a new look, smoking cigarettes in public, showing gams, having short hair, etc.
Economic Issues: Stock market crash, Great Depression
Dust Bowl : Storm of dust across Kansas, Texas, NewYork, etc. people homeless, living in inches of sand
Agriculture Issues : Dried out farm lands, no crops growing, people not getting food, farmers not getting money
Immigration Policies : Restricted to 2% of each minority
Nativism : KKK not liking anyone, huge decline in 1930
Significant Literacy Works : Jacob A Riis "How the Other Half Lives", built other regulations; Upton Sinclair "Jungle", regulated FDA; Ralph Nader "Unsafe at Any Speed", driving regulations; Longston Huges "The Ways of White Folks", appealing views
The Great Migration : People "mostly blacks" moved from South to North
Harlem Renaissance : Black celebration of culture
Sacco & Vanzetti : Accused of murdering two men, still not known whether they were guilty or not
Labor Issues : People losing jobs due to Great Depression, hard to find new ones. Also with drinking caused come unemployments
The Red Scare : Russia, Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin, People were afraid of those who displayed UN-AMERICAN behaviors, especially those FOREIGN
Schneck V the United States : Espionage and Sedition Acts were declared constitutional by the Supreme Court
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