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1920's Mind Map by Mind Map: 1920's Mind Map

1. The Jazz Age

1.1. Musicians

1.1.1. Louis Armstrong

1.1.2. Duke Ellington

1.2. Writers

1.2.1. Ernest Hemingway

1.2.2. F. Scott Fitzgerald

1.2.3. Claude McKay

1.3. Flappers

1.3.1. Would dance in clubs

2. Harlem Rennaisance

2.1. African Americans migrated to the north

3. Women's Rights

3.1. The 19th Amendment gave the women the right to vote

3.2. Soon after 1920, women began working outside of the house

3.3. Portrayed by the "Flappers"

4. New Industries

4.1. Assembly Lines (Divided work into simpler tasks)

4.1.1. Formed by Henry Ford

4.1.1.1. Designed the "Model T"

4.1.2. Made the manufacturing of automobiles much faster

5. Prohibition (18th Amendment)

5.1. Speakeasies

5.1.1. An establishment that would hold selling and drinking alcoholic beverages (while buying and selling was illegal)

5.1.2. The corruption of the Police was big at this time

5.2. Bootlegging

5.2.1. Illegal transportating and manufacturing of alcohol

5.2.2. Brought in illegal products

5.2.3. They would steal liquor from government warehouses and produced their own

5.2.4. Increased breweries and wineries in cities

5.3. The Untouchables

5.3.1. Eleven famous law-enforcement agents.

5.3.2. Would raid speakeasies and stills

5.3.3. Responsible for taking down Al Capone

5.4. Gangsters

5.4.1. Crime increased significantly (organized crime)

5.4.2. Popular in large cities

5.4.3. Bootlegging became popular

5.4.4. Al Capone is the most famous gangster (Chicago)

5.5. Flappers

5.5.1. They would smoke cigarettes, wear short skirts and a lot of makeup.

6. Immigration

6.1. Anti-immigration

6.1.1. National Origins Act

6.1.2. Discrimination against immigrants

6.1.3. Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

6.1.3.1. The trial was unfair

6.2. Nativism

6.2.1. Immigrants from Europe feared the shift of religions appearing, and it would become more popular than Protestant ideas

6.3. Red Scare developed from so many immigrants moving to the United States.

7. The Ku Klux Klan

7.1. A group formed that was against immigrants, blacks, catholics, womens rights and bootleggers

8. Scopes Trial

8.1. Very popular trial in American history

8.2. Conflicts between faith and reason, individual liberty and majority rule, and finally science and technology.

8.3. John Scopes was in trial for violating a state law of teaching evolution.

8.4. The two conclusions were: legislatures can't stop the ability of scientific inquiry, and that the public should respect the freedom of academics.

9. Red Scare

9.1. The fear of communism in the United States.

9.2. America thought that the Bolsheviks were behind communism.