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Essential Question
What was the impact of
World War I on U.S.
society?
The War’s Impact
Bolshevik Revolution
Bolsheviks =
communists who
wanted to take
control of Russia
March 1917 –
Czar Nicholas II
left his throne
Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the
Bolshevik Party
Nov. 1917 – overthrew
the Russian
government
Beginning of
communist
government
Red Scare
Fear that
Communists were
trying to start a
revolution in the U.S.
Many linked
Communist activities
with worker strikes
and immigration
A. Mitchell Palmer
U.S. Attorney General
Home bombed by
revolutionaries
He organized a series
of raids on radical
organizations
J. Edgar Hoover
Head of a new
division within the
Justice Department
Became the Federal
Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)
End of Progressivism
Election of 1920
Winner = Warren G.
Harding
(Republican)
Platform = U.S. must
return to “normalcy”
as before the
Progressive Era
reforms
A Clash of Values
Return of Nativism
Immigrants from
southern and eastern
Europe
Competition for jobs
with military men
Many saw immigrants
as a threat to U.S.
stability and order
Ku Klux Klan
Voice in restricting
immigration
Targeted Catholics,
Jews, immigrants
Emergency Quota Act
Signed by Harding
in 1921
Limited immigration
with quotas
Henry Ford
Goal?
Make an
automobile
affordable for
every
household
How?
Assembly Line
Prohibition
January 1920
18th amendment
– prohibition of
alcohol
Enforced by the
Treasury
Department
Speakeasies
Secret bars where
people could
purchase alcohol
Bootlegging in rural
America
Run by organized
crime (the mob)
Al Capone
Dominated
organized crime in
Chicago
Mass Media
Radio
Movies
Newspapers
Magazines
Aimed at a broad
audience
Mass Media
Created a sense of
shared national
experience
Quickly spread
new ideas and
attitudes
African American Culture
Harlem Renaissance
Followed the Great
Migration
Cities became full
of nightclubs and
music
One center became
Harlem, NYC
Harlem Renaissance
Growth of African
American arts
Langston Hughes
Became the voice
of African
American
experience in the
United States
I, Too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed --I, too, am America.
Zora Neale Hurston
First major stories
featuring African
American females
in lead roles
Louis Armstrong
Early form of jazz
Great cornet and
trumpet soloist
Duke Ellington
Composer, pianist,
bandleader
Got his start at the
Cotton Club
(Harlem nightspot)
Duke Ellington
“Everything, and I repeat, everything, had to
swing. And that was just it, those cats
really had it; they had that soul. And you
know you can’t just play some of this
music without soul. Soul is very
important.”
Cotton Club
Tin Pan Alley