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Education hit a huge stride in the 1920's, with more and more states requiring education until graduating high school. With science hitting many strides, eliminating the threats of many diseases Which caused many controversies on whether or not America was evolving too much. Leading to events like  Monkey Trial, which tested things like Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/monkey-trial-begins

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After World War I turned inward, America's mood changed to isolationism and denounced radical foreign ideas. In 1919, the "red scare" started which was basically fear of communism which was caused by the Russian revolution. People thought that the "reds" planted the bombs causing Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to go on a series of arresting about 6,000 suspected communist. On Wall Street there were violent radical attacking because people saw it as a banking capital. Then there was a case with anarchist Nicolas Sacco & Bartolomeo Venzetti who were Italian immigrants accused of murder. In the end they were tried, convicted, and executed. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/america-1918-1939/the-red-scare-in-the-1920/

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In the 1920's, America introduced air mail, and brought transcontinental airmail routes throughout America. America also got a new hero when Charles Lindbergh became known as the first solo flyer to cross the Atlantic Ocean.http://airmailapp.com/

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Automobiles hit the most advances in the 1920's with the introduction to the assembly line methods, allowing for mass production of cars, and were able to make produce 200,000 cars annually. America became the first country to have their transportation largely based on automobiles. America was the largest producer of cars in the 1920's.https://youtu.be/ag0wj1eBAas

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The gasoline age came around in the 1920's because of the large number of automobiles in America offering thousands of new jobs of all kinds, like garage construction, rubber, glass, fabrics, and gas stations. Making automobiles a necessity instead of a luxury
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Gasoline now being everywhere in America opened the doors to the advancement in flight. With the Wright brother setting the stage in 1903, Americans were able to advance the concept even further and allowed for international travel. Notably Charles A. Lindbergh who became a celebrity for being the first man to cross seas by air, and evenrually went on to be a fighter pilot in WWII.
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During this period the KKK was rising up again. As we know the KKK is a anti-foreign, anti- Catholic, anti- black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti- communist, anti- internationalist, anti- evolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti- gambling, anti-adultery, and anti- birth control. They were extremist, most of the women didn't wear masks because they were unapologetic and fueled by their pride. The KKK started to spread quickly to white protestants in the Midwest and South. This group of people fed off of peoples fear, which created a social change in the 1920's. After all this the civil rights activist fought to make lynching a federal crime, and even then lawmakers still feared these white southern violaters.
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Isolationist Americans thought that immigrants were useless. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which restricted newcomers from Europe with a quota, which was replaced with the Immigration Act which cut the quotas of all foreigners to 2 percent. Different countries could only send a certain amount of citizens to America annually. During this period the Japanese were banned overall from coming to America and Canadians & Latin Americans were easy to get access to, and they would not have to abide by the act. The Immigration act  ended unrestricted immigration to the USA. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act

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The experiment they are talking about here is the 18th amendment that banned alcohol. Prohibition was supported by mostly women and people who went to church regularly, this was the final outcome of the progressive movement. The south wanted to keep the crime and corruption at a minimal, and they thought that taking away an opponent would bring it down lots. This might have worked better if there were a better enforcement of rules. Around this period speakeasies started replacing more saloons.  http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

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People having large amounts of alcohol let to police bribery in order to be able to maintain the large amounts of illegal alcohol. There were lots of riots in the big cities between gangs and people in control of booze markets. A man by the name of Al Capone began a gang warfare of 6 years that made him millions of dollars. He was tried and convicted of income-tax evasion, and he went to prison for 11 years. After gang members starting to move on to other things that were illegal, like gambling, narcotics, kidnapping for ransom, and prostitution. Another man by the name of Charles A Lindbergh had a son that was kidnapped for ransom and killed making congress pass the Lindbergh Law, that is basically abduction can let you be charged with death penalty. http://alpengeistadventures.blogspot.com/2011/03/golden-age-of-gangsterism.html

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n the 1920s, the stock market became increasingly popular to the average citizen.

The Federal government did little to manage the national debt after WWI.

In 1921, the Republican Congress created the Bureau of the Budget to help the president submit an annual budget to Congress.  It was designed to prevent haphazardly extravagant appropriations.

Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's belief was that taxes forced the rich to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories; this hurt business. Mellon helped create a series of tax reductions from 1921-1926 to help rich people. Congress also eliminated the gift tax, reduced excise taxes, the surtax, the income tax, and estate taxes.  Mellon's policies shifted the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-income groups.  Mellon reduced the national debt by $10 billion.

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In the decade after WWI, a new generation of writers emerged.  They gave American literature new life, imaginativeness, and artistic quality.

Modernism: philosophical movement during the 1920s; a key component of this movement was the questioning of social conventions.

H.L. Mencken attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in his monthly American Mercury.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise in 1920 and The Great Gatsby in 1925.

Earnest Hemingway was among the writers most affected by the war.  He responded to propaganda and the overblown appeal to patriotism.  He wrote of disillusioned, spiritually numb American expatriates in Europe in The Sun Also Rises (1926).

Sinclair Lewis wrote Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922).

Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

Harlem Renaissance: a black cultural movement that grew out of Harlem

Architecture also became popular as materialism and functionalism became popular.

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By the 1920s, most Americans had moved from rural areas to urban (city) areas.

Margaret Sanger led a birth-control movement.  Alice Paul formed the National Women's Party in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

The Fundamentalists lost ground to the Modernists who believed that God was a "good guy" and the universe was a friendly place.

Sex appeal in America grew in the 1920s. Flappers: young women who expressed their disdain for traditional women behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking.

Dr. Sigmund Freud argued that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of emotional problems.

Jazz thrived in the 1920s.

Racial pride grew in the northern black communities.  Marcus Garvey founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa.  In the United States, the UNIA also sponsored stores and other businesses to keep blacks' dollars in black pockets.

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Motion picture, which had been partially developed by Thomas A. Edison, began in the 1890s.  The true birth of motion picture came in 1903 with the release of the first story sequence:  The Great Train Robbery.  Hollywood became the movie capital of the world.

Motion picture was used extensively in WWI as anti-German propaganda.

The spread of motion picture led to increased assimilation of immigrants.

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Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless telegraphy (the telegraph) in the 1890s.

In the 1920s, the first voice-carrying radio broadcasts were transmitted. Automobiles drew Americans away from the home, but the radio brought them back.  The radio made significant educational and cultural contributions.