Chapter 32 Flashcards
The Seattle General Strike
At first it was shipyard workers, but then other unions joined
Worried Americans of communists and radicals
The Boston Street Strike of 1919
75% of police quit
Mass. Gov. Calvin Coolidge sent out National Guard
Workers were fired
Justified as an act of “public safety”
The Steel Strike
350,000 steelworkers
Anti-immigrant feelings used to divide workers
Blacks and Mexicans were hired by Elbert H. Grey
Elbert H. Grey
Head of U.S. Steel
The steel strike
Used anti-immigrant feelings to divide workers
Hired blacks and mexicans
Attn. Gen. Mitchell Palmer
Arrested 6,000 “reds”
Home damaged by mail bomb
Sacco-Vanzetti case
New Immigrants and anarchists
Arrested for murder and sentenced to death
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Lowered number of immigrants to 3% based on the immigrant population in 1910
Ironically favored the New Immigrants
The National Origins Act of 1924
Lowered number of immigrants to 2% based on immigrant population in 1890
Favored Old Immigrants
KKK in 1920’s
WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)
Targeted any group “un-American”
William J. Simmons
Restrict Immigration
18th amendment and Volstead Act
Banned manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor with U.S.
Made U.S. Treasury Dept. responsible for enforcement
Effect of prohibition
Speakeasies, organized crime, illegal liquor transportation,
Al Capone
Lindbergh Law
Charles Lindbergh’s baby kidnapped for ransom
Made interstate kidnapping punishable by death
John Dewey
“Learning by doing”
“Education for life”
Tennessee Butler Act of 1925
Outlawed teaching of evolution
Trial over John T. Scopes teaching evolution at a school
Led to fundamentalist-evolutionist dispute over evolutionism
Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan
2 evangelical preachers
Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday
Andrew Mellons
Secretary of Treasury
Low tax policies to encourage growth
Henry Ford
Moveable assembly line
Mass production
Model T
Bruce Barton
Advertising genius
The Man Nobody Knows-showed Jesus as the ideal advertiser
Frederick Taylor
Principles of Scientific Management
Broke down production process into separate steps
Efficiency
Margaret Sanger
American Birth Control League
Famous flappers
Zelda Fitzgerald and Clara Bow
Florence Sabin
Research led to a drop in death rates from tuberculosis
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
