3. Economic Boom: Automobiles Cars became cheaper ($390 Model T—$7700 today) 1920s: 15 million sold in USA Installment plan! Assembly line—every 24 seconds Other industries: Wood, glass, metal, oil Service stations, motels, dealerships Housing industry Road building
9. Review Sedition Act Freedom of speech; disloyalty curbed Schenck v. US Clear & present danger Russian Revolution Goals: worldwide revolution; overthrow Capitalism
10. Result: Fear 1919 Strikes Seattle Shipyard Strikes: bombings Boston police strike: anarchy Radicalism to blame—must be stopped! Communists trying to take over the US
13. Sacco and Vanzetti Case Boston shoe factory paymaster robbed $15,766 taken; paymaster killed Sacco & Vanzetti arrested (anarchists) Sacco’s gun: same model Trial: Vanzetti claimed that he was selling fish Sacco: he was in Boston getting a passport from the Italian consulate and having dinner with friends (Sacco's dinner companions were friends and fellow anarchists) Guilty; Executed