American Life In The 20's Essay

APUSH Pre-reading Notes (SQ3R method)
|DIRECTIONS: Follow the steps outlined in the left margin as you pre-read the chapter. Write your answers in the lined area of the page. |
|1. Write down the chapter title and the dates |American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1919-1929 |
|the chapter covers. | |
|2. Read the opening quote. What do you think |Life in the 20s. |
|this means? |
Skim the entire chapter and read all |The Golden Age of Gangsterism, Monkey Business in Tennessee, The Mass Consumption Economy, Putting America on |
|headings. List them here |Rubber Tires, The Advent of the Gasoline Age, Humans Develop Wings |
|Seeing Red |The Radio Revolution, Hollywood’s Film land Fantasies, The Dynamic Decade |
|Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK |Cultural Liberation, Wall Street’s Big Bull Market |
|Stemming the Foreign Flood | |
|The Prohibition “Experiment” | |
|5. Predict what you think this chapter will be |Life in America during the 20s.
Now with the coming of the 20s, they are now reenergized and added to the list of hate which included Catholics, Jews, pacifists, communists, internationalists, revolutionists, bootleggers, gambling, adultery, and birth control. They were pro-white Anglo Saxon protestant and hated pretty much everything else that wasn’t that. They used fear, lynching, and intimidation to get what they want and to get things done.

Seeing Red After ww1, America resumed back to the idea of isolationism, with that, they also expected foreigners that came to America to change their ways to a more American lifestyle. During this time, the “Red Scare” was on everyone’s minds, it was basically a fear of communism that came up in the minds of many Americans. This was caused by the Russian Revolution, Eugene Debs’s growing number in the socialist party, the many more strikes that have been happening and a series of mail bombs across America. With this idea of Communism in people’s minds, it was logical for them to say that it was associated with all foreigners from Europe, so making them change their customs to a more American lifestyle would be ideal for a better society. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer rounded up the reds and put them in jail or deported them, he soon slowed down on this after his house was bombed. State laws passed outlawing speech that