the scopes trial- teacher was teaching evolution in school and was put on trial about it
Prohibition- during the 1920s alchol was restricted
flappers- women in 1920s who started to wear short dresses and possibly had ciggarette
economic issues- over producing with new technology
dustbowl- bad wheater-droughts decreased farm production
agriculture issues- rotate crops, drought made it hard to grow plants, tractors was a new technlolgy
immigration policies- started to not really like immigrants, put up laws started quotus
nativism- you dont like any ethnic group but your own
significant literacy- started to question/rebel against government and new technology
the great migration- blacks started to move toward the north
harlem renaissance- blacks in harlem started to do well for themselfs, got hope . exceeded in literature, art , music
sacco and venetti- accused of being spies, didnt like them because they were italian anarchist
labor issues- mass production wasnt working out to well for the workers, a lot of workers were unskilled
the red scare- america hates communism and russians after bolshevik revolution
schnek vs america-The Supreme Court decision defended the Espionage Act (1917) which concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech against the draft used in WWI
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