Content Rundown:

➔ Social Unrest
➔ Trade & Arms Limitations
➔ Prosperity
➔ Values in Conflict
➔ African Americans in the
1920s
 Social Unrest
Race Riots: In 1919, there were several riots
that were known as the Race Riots. These
riots mainly occurred as a result of racial
injustice and conflicts with racial violence
that the white Americans partook in.

Chicago Race Riot (1919) was a clear

example of a riot that resulted in 38 deaths
and over 500 of the injured.

These riots are also known as the “Red Summer”.

Some other cities that experienced Race

Riots were Knoxville, Tennessee, Longview
Texas and Omaha, Nebraska.

The Red Scare was the
term that used to refer to
the nationwide fear of
communists, radicals and
socialists.
Social Unrest
Continued…
Mitchell Palmer was the
United States Attorney
General who was known
for overseeing the “Palmer
Raids”. These raids were
conducted to capture
and/or arrest those who
were immigrants from Italy
or Eastern Europe, or
suspected radical leftists.
Palmer’s house was also
said to have been bombed
by communists.
 Trade & Arms Limitations
Foreign policies were used in order
to preserve national security,
promote world peace, maintain Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes
balance of power among nations published several books that promoted world
and to keep communists away. peace.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) was created as an

effort to prevent any world wars from happening
again.

A plan known as the 1924 Plan suggested that

the U.S would give Germany money to repay
France and Great Britain, who would in return pay
the U.S back in the future.
 Trade & Arms Limitations

There was a new idea that allowed

people to “possess today and pay
tomorrow”, and that was known to
be the credit card.

After World War I, the Japanese were

upset that they were limited in
expansion.
 Prosperity
Several inventions were created in the 1920s.
Some of which were the Hair Dryer, Q - Tip and
the Band aid. Along with an increase in products,
there was a change in Mass advertising due to an
increase in celebrity influence.

Henry Ford, the inventor of the T- model, also

created the assembly line. Which was used in the
creation of cars.The car changed American society
because it allowed people travel further from
cities, new jobs regarding the production and
maintenance of cars appeared and many homes
were remodeled in order to accommodate for
the new automobiles.
 Prosperity

The credit card allowed many

users to possess certain items
( for instances a car ) and pay
for the item some other time.
Many Americans were excited
by the new idea.

During such a seemingly profitable time, most Farmers and

African Americans did not experience economic
prosperity.
 Values in Conflict
The act that limited immigration to 2% of the
ethnicities in the U.S population was the
Immigration Act of 1924.

Three ways that the lives of

women changed in the 1920s
was through having a bigger
variety of jobs to work in,
women were able to vote in all
states and were able to
consume alcohol with men.
 Values in Conflict
The 18th Amendment dealt with prohibition along
with the production and distribution of alcohol which
had been enforced by the Bureau of Prohibition.

Bootlegging was the illegal

production and distribution of
alcohol.

Although laws were emplaced to

hinder alcohol consumption, illegal
bars called Speakeasies existed.
 Values in Conflict

Modernists referred to people

who believed that the bible
should be the main source to
follow concerning morality.

In the Scopes Trial, the defendant,

John Thomas Scopes, was accused
and convicted of teaching evolution. He
was accused of violating the Butler Act,
which made it illegal for evolution to be
taught in schools.
 African Americans in the 1920s
The NAACP focused on the
economic sustainability, Education,
Health, Public Safety and Voting
rights of African Americans.

One of Marcus Garvey ’s, the founder

of the United States Negro
improvement association, goals were to
promote black empowerment.
 African Americans in the 1920s
In 1916 - 1970 many African Americans moved
from the rural South to the more urban Northwest,
Midwest and West. Many moved in search of new
jobs and the massive migration was called The
Great Migration.

Over 6 million African Americans

relocated.
 African Americans in the 1920s

Popular performers during the

Harlem Renaissance were
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale
Hurston, Claude McKay and
Jessie Redmon Fauset.

Popular jazz performers were

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll
Morton and Billy Holiday.