2. Prohibition: It goes into effect in the United States in January 1920. It was pushed by the woman's organization because men were performing domestic violence and child abuse do to coming home drunk.
3. Flappers: young woman with a revealing dress with a cigarette. Usually has a short hair-cut. It was the first time a woman was saw like this.
4. Economis Issues in 1920: A huge demand for consumer goods. Three thing happened:
-credit became available to the consumers for the first time
-low interest rates
-introduction of the "Installment Plan", stock market speculation and buying on margin.
5. Immigration Policies in 1920: the Immigration Act was passed in 1924. Ethnic groups were limited to 2% of count from before. Asians were banned entirely.
6. Dust Bowl: cause mainly by technology new machines that didn't let the dirt recover.
7.Agricultural Issues: Overproduction. Farmers produced more goods with all the new technology and machine but consumers were not consuming very much. Price went down and affected mostly the wage laborers, tenants and sharecroppers.
8. Navitism: preference for native-born people and a desire to limit immigration.
9.Significant literary works: Langston Hughes "I too", jazz music, etc.
10. The Great Migration: African Americans moved from south to north in harlem and thats were the Harlem Renaissance started.
11. Harlem Renaissance: African americans moved from south to north where they developed music, literature, dances, etc.
12. Sacco and Venzetti: two italian anarchists guilty for murder and sentenced to death in 1927.
13. Labor Issues: demobilization. The effects of demobilization were drinking, depression and rise in crime/homelessness.
14. The Red Scare: lenin taking over Russia cause americans to get scared that communism would spread out in the US. Immigrants lost jobs because they were thought as spies. Any anti-american behavior was disciplined.
15. Schneck v. the US: court decision that upheld the Espionage act of 1927.
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