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The Seattle General Strike

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At first it was shipyard workers, but then other unions joined
Worried Americans of communists and radicals

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The Boston Street Strike of 1919

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75% of police quit
Mass. Gov. Calvin Coolidge sent out National Guard
Workers were fired
Justified as an act of “public safety”

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The Steel Strike

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350,000 steelworkers
Anti-immigrant feelings used to divide workers
Blacks and Mexicans were hired by Elbert H. Grey

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Elbert H. Grey

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Head of U.S. Steel
The steel strike
Used anti-immigrant feelings to divide workers
Hired blacks and mexicans

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Attn. Gen. Mitchell Palmer

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Arrested 6,000 “reds”

Home damaged by mail bomb

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Sacco-Vanzetti case

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New Immigrants and anarchists

Arrested for murder and sentenced to death

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Emergency Quota Act of 1921

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Lowered number of immigrants to 3% based on the immigrant population in 1910
Ironically favored the New Immigrants

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The National Origins Act of 1924

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Lowered number of immigrants to 2% based on immigrant population in 1890
Favored Old Immigrants

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KKK in 1920’s

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WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)
Targeted any group “un-American”
William J. Simmons
Restrict Immigration

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18th amendment and Volstead Act

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Banned manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor with U.S.

Made U.S. Treasury Dept. responsible for enforcement

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Effect of prohibition

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Speakeasies, organized crime, illegal liquor transportation,

Al Capone

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Lindbergh Law

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Charles Lindbergh’s baby kidnapped for ransom

Made interstate kidnapping punishable by death

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John Dewey

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“Learning by doing”

“Education for life”

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Tennessee Butler Act of 1925

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Outlawed teaching of evolution

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Trial over John T. Scopes teaching evolution at a school

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Led to fundamentalist-evolutionist dispute over evolutionism

Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan

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2 evangelical preachers

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Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday

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Andrew Mellons

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Secretary of Treasury

Low tax policies to encourage growth

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Henry Ford

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Moveable assembly line
Mass production
Model T

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Bruce Barton

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Advertising genius

The Man Nobody Knows-showed Jesus as the ideal advertiser

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Frederick Taylor

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Principles of Scientific Management
Broke down production process into separate steps
Efficiency

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Margaret Sanger

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American Birth Control League

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Famous flappers

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Zelda Fitzgerald and Clara Bow

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Florence Sabin

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Research led to a drop in death rates from tuberculosis

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Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence

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Albert Einstein

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Theory of Relativity

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Max Planck

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Quantum Theory

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis
Modern psychology
Popular theories of sex and violence

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Jazz pioneers

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W.C. Handy, “Jelly Roll” Morton, and “Joe” King Oliver

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance

Used jazz and blues themes in poetry

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Marcus Garvey

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United Negro Improvement Association

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H.L. Mencken

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Author who used wit to criticize American society

American Monthly

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John Dos Passos

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Wrote U.S.A trilogy

Criticized capitalist culture

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Sherwood Anderson

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Wrote Winesburg, Ohio

Depicted small-town america

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Sinclair Lewis

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Wrote Main Street-depicted small town America

Wrote Babbitt-criticized 20’s materialism and consumerism

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Gertrude Stein

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Poems used experimental language
“Lost Generation”
Expatriate

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T.S. Eliot

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Negative effects of modernism

The Hollow Men

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John Marin

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Art with nature and urban dynamics

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Charles Scheeler

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Photography and Cubism to American landscapes

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Edward Hooper

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Visual accuracy of realism in haunting scenes

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