USA Society 1920 Flashcards
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Jim Crow
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Segregation No vote Lynching Race riots Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921 300 black people killed
1
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Roaring twenties
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Hollywood
Jazz
Cars
2
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Ku Klux Klan
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White supremacist
Ainti-Afro American, Catholic, Jewish.
Moral standards
Violent
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Other forms of intolerance
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Immigration, literacy test, emergency quota act, national origins act.
Red scare- communists
Palmer raids 1920
Sacco and Vanzetti 1920-27.
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Prohibition
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Anti-saloon league
Half states had introduced prohibition before 1917.
18th amendment passed 1917
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Why did prohibition fail?
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Too few enforcement agents, too badly paid
Bootleggers smuggled alcohol.
Moonshine
Speakeasies
21st amendment repealed the 18th at the end of 1932
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Organised crime
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Illicit alcohol=big business
Al Capone
Only went to prison for tax evasion 1931
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Women’s role
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Got the vote 1918
