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

USSR Power Struggle

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

Sacco and Vanzetti• Italian Immigrants

executed for murder

• Significance:– fear of foreigners in

United States

Ku Klux Klan• Targets in the 1920s:

– Blacks– Immigrants = Jews

and Catholics

Boston Police Strike

• Entire police department goes on strike and are fired and replaced by new policemen.

Steel Mill Strike

• Violent strike where the government broke up the steel workers union

Coal Miners Strike

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

Warren Harding• Republican Senator

from Ohio. (29th)

• Famous “...return to normalcy…” speech.

• Ohio gang – led to many scandals in the Harding presidency

• Dies in office in 1923

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 1st cabinet officer to go to jail.

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!!”

“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun 

than you can with a kind word alone.”

Mafia in the United States5 Big Families

Commission

Gambino Lucchese Bonanno Colombo Genovese

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.

What was the controversial issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925?

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Man “evolved” from apes.

1st 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.

1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean by

33 hours and 39 minutes

Received a prize of $25,000

CLICK on the picture for a

Youtube video for each movie

The JazzSinger (1927)

• The 1st feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue.

• Starred Al Jolson

• Marked the decline of the silent film era

• 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

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• James Weldon Johnson was instrumental in increasing the NAACP's membership from 9,000 to almost 90,000.