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Society -1920-1935 (Prohibition and gangsters (Why introduced (Women and…

- - - - Babe Ruth and New York Yankees ( charisma)
      - Built West-Side Grounds in Chicgo
      - Cork sentered ball could go far
      - 1920 Negro National Baseball League- could attract up to 30,000
        
        earned half the salaries of white
        
        biggest African American owned business in the USA
- - - - less welcome after 1900 due to job competition and WW! fuelling anti germen
      - not dragged into another war and they balmed it on europe
      - immigrant ghettos in northern cities were dangerous and violent
    - - 1917 Literacy Act- literacy test for immegrants , expessive
      - Immigration Quota Act 1921 only 3% of the figure in 1910 allowed in
    - - 1924 National Origins Act restricted immigration and the Immigration act restricted it further in 1929 and no Asian immigrating at all
    - - 1920 2 Italians arrested and charged with the Murder of there payer Parmenter who described there attackers as slim and olive
      - in 1921 they were declared guilty and there was demonstrations all around USA to support the 2 men but it failed and they were executed in 1927
      - Importance
        
        over the world shoed the intolerance of American society , exposed the unfairness of the system
        
        The evidence was very flimsy
  - - - Birth of a nation 1915 showed the Klan save white family's from AA
      - After WW1 labour tensions as veterans tried to re join work force
      - Increasing industrialisation more workers many immegrants
      - southern whites resented the arming of AA in WW1
    - - New founded in Atlanta by Simminds
      - Thye wanted to hide their identity and attacked their victims at night
      - carried American flags and burning cross
      - 1925 had 5 million
      - especially popular in southern states
      - carry out lynching, feathers and tar
    - - 1925 after one of its leaders David Stephenson was convicted of a sexually motivated murder tried to blackmail high Klan leaders and exposed illegal activeys
      - division about the tactics