Jazz Age. 1921-29. Chapter Seven.

Nativism resurges after the war.

Backlash against recent immigrants.

Economy in recession.

Army Vets couldn’t get jobs.

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

• Accused of murder and robbing a shoe company.

• Being confirmed anarchists assured their convictions.

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Eugenics Movement.

• Pseudo-Science. “Breed out inferior people(s).”

• Hitler was a fan as was Woodrow Wilson.

• During these bad economic times the Ku Klux Klan regrouped. They hated people of color, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.

Controlling Immigration.

• National Origins Act of 1924.• Set quotas as to how many immigrants could

come from each country.• Hispanic immigration was slow down by the

above act. • A labor shortage developed in California and

the South West.• Hispanics/immigrants were barred from the

U.S. work force.

Women in the 1920’s.

• Flappers! What a scandal!

• Young and stylish.

• Rail thin.

• Smoked/Drank illegal alcohol.

• Revealing dress.

• Worked outside the home.

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Fundamentalist Movement.

• Fundamentalist beliefs:

• Bible is true without error.

• People derived their moral behavior from God, not society.

• Rejected Evolution and embraced Creationism.

Aimee Semple McPherson.

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Scopes Trail-1925.

• John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in in high school.

• William Jennings Bryan was prosecutor and Clarence Darrow was the defense attorney.

• Darrow put Bryan on the stand!

Prohibition-Eighteenth Amendment-1920-1933.

• Volstead Act.

• U.S. Treasury would enforce prohibition.

• “Speakeasies” sprouted up in every city.

• Organized crime made millions and turf wars killed many.

• The start of the Drive By Shootings!

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AL Capone A.K.A Scarface.

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African-American Culture.

• Harlem Renaissance.

• Writers:

• Claude McKay-Poet

• Langston Hughes-Poet/Author.

Langston Hughes-A Raisin In The Sun.

• What happens to a dream deferred?• Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?• Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat? • Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy

sweet?• Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or

does it explode?

Jazz, Blues, And Jazz.

• Jazz was invented in America.

• It’s a mix of Dixieland and Ragtime.

• Blues came from African-American spirituals.

• The Cotton Club was the most important Club for music in New York City.

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African-American Politics.

• NAACP battles lynching.

• Black voting in the north strengthened the Republican Party.

• Marcus Garvey created “Black Nationalism.”

• Glorified black pride and unity.

• Stressed the need for education.

More Marcus Garvey….• Advocated separation and

independence from whites.

• He wanted to create a settlement in Liberia.

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