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    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

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    USSR Power Struggle

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    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 civilrights of many were

    violated

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    Sacco and Vanzetti Italian Immigrants

    executed for murder

    Significance:

    fear of foreigners in

    United States

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    Ku Klux Klan Targets in the 1920s:

    Blacks

    Immigrants = Jews

    and Catholics

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    Boston Police Strike

    Entire police department goes on strike and

    are fired and replaced by new policemen.

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    Steel Mill Strike

    Violent strike

    where the

    governmentbroke up the

    steel workers

    union

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    Coal Miners

    Strike John L. Lewis led asuccessful strike of

    the nations coal

    miners and

    becomes a

    powerful labor

    leader.

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    Warren Harding

    Republican Senator

    from Ohio. (29th)

    Famous ...return tonormalcy speech.

    Ohio gang led to

    many scandals in the

    Harding presidency

    Dies in office in 1923

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    Teapot Dome

    Scandal Teapot Dome,Wyoming hadgovernment ownedoil fields

    Secretary of InteriorAlbert Fall leased theland to oil executiveswho had bribed him.

    Fall became 1st

    cabinet officer to goto jail.

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    Calvin Coolidge Silent Cal 30th

    Takes over Presidencywhen Harding dies.

    Wins reelection in 1924but does not run forreelection in 1928.

    The business ofAmerica is business!!

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    You can get much further with a kind

    word and a gun

    than you can with a kind word alone.

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    Mafia in the United States

    5 Big Families

    Commission

    Gambino Lucchese Bonanno ColomboGenovese

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    Philadelphia Mob

    The Philadelphia,Pennsylvania faction ofLa Cosa Nostra hasbeen one of the

    strongest families in theAmerican Cosa Nostrasince its start in 1911.

    Salvatore Sabella wassent to Philadelphia by

    the bosses of theSicilian Mafia toorganize the city'srackets.

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

    Charles Darwinstheory of evolution.

    Man evolved fromapes.

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    1st Radio Broadcast - 1920

    First Broadcast

    At 6:00pm, onTuesday,November 2, 1920,a few men in ashack changed thecourse of history.

    Pittsburgh, PA.

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    1st person to flysolo across theAtlantic Ocean by

    33 hours and 39minutes

    Received a prizeof $25,000

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    CLICKon the

    picture for aYoutube video

    for each movie

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    The Jazz

    Singer (1927) The 1st feature length

    motion picture with

    synchronizeddialogue.

    Starred Al Jolson

    Marked the decline ofthe silent film era

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    Movement of African-

    Americans from the

    South to Urban areas

    of United States More than 1.5 million

    1914 1930

    Escape racism, findbetter jobs, overall

    better life in the North

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    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.