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Skip to main content. Printer Friendly. In December of , alleged alien radicals were deported on the Buford. The Red Scare severely cut back free speech for a period, since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists and their ideas. Some states made it illegal to merely advocate the violent overthrow of government for social change. In , Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard.
The two accused were Italians, atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers, and the courts may have been prejudiced against them. Liberals and radicals rallied around the two men, but they were executed. Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK The new Ku Klux Klan was anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control.
At its peak in the s, it claimed 5 million members, mostly from the South, but it also featured a reign of hooded horror. The KKK employed the same tactics of fear, lynchings, and intimidation. It was stopped not by the exposure of its horrible racism, but by its money fraud. The immigrant tide was now cut off, but those that were in America struggled to adapt. Labor unions in particular had difficulty in organizing because of the differences in race, culture, and nationality.
Actually, most people thought that Prohibition was here to stay, and this was especially popular in the Midwest and the South. In actuality, bank savings did increase, and absenteeism in industry did go down.
The Golden Age of Gangsterism Prohibition led to the rise of gangs that competed to distribute liquor. In the gang wars of Chicago in the s, about people were murdered, but captured criminals were rare, and convictions even rarer, since gangsters often provided false alibis for each other. Capone was finally caught for tax evasion. In , gangsters kidnapped the baby son of Charles Lindbergh, shocking the nation, and this event led Congress to the so-called Lindbergh Law, which allowed the death penalty to certain cases of interstate abduction.
Now, schools were no longer prisons. States also were increasingly placing minimum ages for teens to stay in school. A massive health care program launched by the Rockefeller Foundation practically eliminated hookworm in the South. Scopes, a high school teacher of Dayton, Tennessee, was charged with teaching evolution. The trial proved to be inconclusive but illustrated the rift between the new and old.
Increasing numbers of Christians were starting to reconcile their differences between religion and the findings of modern science, as evidenced in the new Churches of Christ est. Henry Ford perfected the assembly-line production to where his famous Rouge River Plant was producing a finished automobile every ten seconds. The automobile now provided more freedom, more luxury, and more privacy.
A new medium arose as well: advertising, which used persuasion, ploy, seduction, and sex appeal to sell merchandise. Folks followed new and dangerous buying techniques…they bought 1 on the installment plan and 2 on credit. Both ways were capable of plunging an unexpecting consumer into debt. Putting America on Rubber Tires Americans adapted, rather than invented, the gasoline engine.
People like Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds famous for Oldsmobile developed the infant auto industry. In , when the bull market collapsed, 26 million motor vehicles were registered in the United States, or 1 car per 4.
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