THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Prejudice towards African Americans
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Fear of the KKK
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The fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas
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the need to strengthen national defense
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Detailed explanation-1: -As described by critic Edmund Wilson in 1928, “[The Sacco-Vanzetti case] revealed the whole anatomy of American life, with all its classes, professions, and points of view, and all their relations, and it raised almost every fundamental question of our political and social system.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10, 000 people in seventy cities.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the main reason Americans were upset by the Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920? The raids ignored people’s civil liberties.