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criminal syndicalism laws
made the advocacy of violence to secure social change unlawful. Traditional American ideals of free speech were restricted.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
restricting newcomers from Europe in any given year to a definite quota, which was at 3% of the people of their nationality who had been living in the United States in 1910.
Immigration Act of 1924
replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%. Different countries were only allowed to send an allotted number of its citizens to America every year
The Mass-Consumption Economy
advertising Sports credit
Modernists
believed that God was a “good guy” and the universe was a friendly place.
The 1920s witnessed an explosion in sex appeal in America.