Concept Guide

• The Scopes Trial- John Scopes was trialed for teaching about evolution
  
• Prohibition- The law that ban alcohole
  
• Flappers- Women that had short hair, smked and drank in public and showed clivege
  
• Economic Issues (1920s)- People started buying on credit instead of using money. Low interest rates drew peoples attencion
• Dust Bowl- Farmers over used the land and were not able to grow anything
  
• Agriculture Issues- Dust Bowl's affect on the US crop growth
  
• Immigration Policies (1920s)- The limitation the US put on the immigrants that entered in a year
  
• Nativism- When the US favored the natives instead of the immigrants
  
• Significant Literary Works (1920s)- Jacob A. Ris wrote "How the Other Half Lives" which was a photo-essay about the lifes of the different social class in NYC. Upton Sinclai wrote "The Jungle" which revealed the truth about the meat packinging bussness.Laston Hughes wrote "The ways of the White Folks" which ended up with whites being called out on there unfair treatmen to the blacks
• The Great Migration- African Americans moved from the South to the North
  
• Harlem Renaissance- First time African Americans celebrated there culture
  
• Sacco and Vanzetti- Accused of shooting and killing two men and robbing them
  
• Labor Issues (1920s)- Railway Act made it illgal for the emloyers to discriminate the employees that joined the union.Loray Mill Strick was when some men in masked destroyed the National Textile Worker Union bulding
• The Red Scare- US became afraid of anything non-American expecial foreighn people
  
• Schneck v. the United States-The Espionage and the Sedition Acts were decleaid constitutional by the Supream Court