roaring 20's

Question 1

sacco and vanzetti

Answer 1

• Italian who were arrested for suspicion of murder and robbery
• they found out they were self-confessed anarchists
• their train became more about their radical ideas then for the murder
• they were charged of flimsey evidence.
• the judge stated that even if they had not committed the murder they were still morally culpable
• they were executed
• 50 years later they were pardoned

Question 2

ku klux klan

Answer 2

• white supremacy movement
• it was declining but had regained popularity
• Wilson showed their movie to the white house which gave them support

Question 3

how African Americans were treated

Answer 3

• south America faced racism
• African Americans couldn’t vote
• they were discriminated against in employment and education
• they were segregated
• they faced violence if they stood up for themselves
• people lynched them
• many fled to the north as they were treated better

Question 4

civil rights movement

Answer 4

• NAACP was set up and campaigned to end racial segregation and lynching
• more organisations were created to help african americans

Question 5

monkey trial

Answer 5

• protestants believed in the bible they were known as fundamentalists
• these people felt it was wrong to teach children evolution in schools
• a law was put in 6 states that teaching law was illegal
• a biology teacher deliberately broke the law so could have a case against fundamentalists
• the teacher was convicted for breaking the law
• anti-evolutionists were mocked as their argument was ridiculous and it was weakened

Question 6

prohibition

Answer 6

• temperance movement did not drink alcohol
• they wanted an alcohol ban
• prohibition supporters were dries and they had powerful arguments
• in 1920 the volstead act was the banning to manufacture, sell or transport alcohol
• it lasted 13 years as it was a failure
• it did reduce the consumption of alcohol
• agents that caught drinkers drank themselves

Question 7

how prohibition did not work

Answer 7

• not enough agents and they were poorly paid
• suppliers stepped in to meet demand of alcohol
• suppliers were called bootleggers and many made fortunes
• people made their own alcohol
• speakeasies were places that sold alcohol
• alcohol was everywhere
• prohibition led to corruption

Question 8

al capone

Answer 8

• he was a gangster from italian backgrounds
• he made a huge network of corrupt officials
• he was a high profile and popular figure
• he killed two of his men as he suspected they were plotting against him
• he then went on to murder 300 men and destroyed the power of the other gangsters in chicago
• St Valentine’s day massacre was when he murdered 7 rivals
• this was as turning point
• prohibition made law powerless, corrupted the police and made gangsters rich
• legalising alcohol would have created more jobs
• in 1933 Roosevelt repealed prohibition

Question 9

entertainment

Answer 9

• radio
• jazz music and dances, blues music
• sport
• cinema, hollywood, charlie chaplin, 1927 movies were silent, talkie made in 1927
• morals, sex was more common, sex films, censorship was introduced
• car gave opportunities

Question 10

women

Answer 10

• women had experience of skilled factory work because of the war
• they could vote
• household jobs were easier with new tech
• they wore more daring clothes and make-up
• smoked in public
• kissed in public
• given jobs (although still a big pay gap)

Question 11

red scare

Answer 11

• when fear of communism rose
• Europeans were bringing these ideas to america
• strikes and protests occurred
• many people with these radical beliefs (who were immigrants) were deported