ROARING 1920's
By: Kyana George, Sydnee Johnson, Dylan Saylor
Table Of Contents:
2.) Politics
3.) Court Cases
4.)Scope Monkey Trail
5.)Innovations and Culture
6.)Letter to the Editor
7.) Political Cartoon
Nativism
Nativism shows its self in the 1920"s because of the massive influx in immigration. After the war many Europeans fled because of the carnage left by WW1.
3 Laws:
The Bennett Law was a controversial Wisconsin law passed in 1889 that required public and private schools to teach most subjects in English. The law was opposed by the state's large German-American population, but was typical of the assimilationist education policy of the Progressive Era.
-Restriction Act
United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap.
-Johnson–Reed Act,
The Act established preferences under the quota system for certain relatives of U.S. residents, including their unmarried children under 21, their parents, and spouses aged 21 and over.
-Rise of the KKK:
-From 1867 onward, African-American participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as blacks won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South.
Sorces:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-kkk/
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-031/?action=more_essay
Politics
Warren G Harding- 29th U.S, President, who was in office 1921-1923, he favored Pro-Business policies and wanted to limit immagration. One of his famous doings was the " Return Normalcy" meaning he wanted to get america back on track.
Tea Pot Dome Scandal- Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Dohney bribed Warren G. harding into giving them lands from the naval oil reserve which was supposed to go to the navy not them. This was a major scandal because they were profiting off the oil when it was for naval use.
Kellog Briand Pact- It was a pact that was used to prohibit using war as a way to rezolve conflicts. It was a way to keep countries from manipulateing each other.
Sorces: http://www.bing.com/search?q=kellog+briand+pact&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IE11TR
Court Cases
Red Scare- Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. Basically it was a way to enfoce the fear of how bad communism.
Palmer Raids- was a series raids in late 1919, by U.S. deparment of justice with the intent to capture, arrest, andf deport radical leftist and anarchist from the U.S.
Sacco and Vanzetti- Two anarchists, who were convicted of a robbery and 2 murders in massachusets and were sentenced to death.
Schenck vs. United States- Charles Schentka was covicted because of violating the espoinage act which prohobots indivisuals from obstructing military recruting and telling people not to inlist in the army.
Sorces: http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare
Scopes Monkey Trail
John Scopes- a teacher in Dayton, Tennesse who was charged with violating the Tennesse Bulter Act meaning he was teaching of evolution in Tennesse schools.
Clarence Darrow- a American lawyer who defended John Scopes in the Scope Monkey Trail.
William Jennings Brian- An american orator and was a 3 time presidential canidite , and he was opposed darwanism which is the theory of evolution. So he sued John Scopes for teaching this Darwin's Theory of Evolution .
The Outcome Of Scopes trail- Scopes was found guilty and was fined 100$.
Sorces:
https://www.google.com/#safe=strict&q=john+scopes
Innovations and Cultures
Aviation
Henry Ford
Letter to the Editor
Political Cartoon
Bibliography of Henry Ford
Died: April 7, 1947
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. He didn’t even invent the assembly line. But more than any other single individual, he was responsible for transforming the automobile from an invention of unknown utility into an innovation that profoundly shaped the 20th century and continues to affect our lives today.
Henry Ford had laid the foundation of the twentieth century. The assembly line became the century’s characteristic production mode, eventually applied to everything from phonographs to hamburgers. The vast quantities of war material turned out on those assembly lines were crucial to the Allied victory in World War II. High wage, low skilled factory jobs pioneered by Ford accelerated both immigration from overseas and the movement of Americans from the farms to the cities. The same jobs also accelerated the movement of the same people into an ever expanding middle class. In a dramatic demonstration of the law of unintended consequences, the creation of huge numbers of low skilled workers gave rise in the 1930s to industrial unionism as a potent social and political force. The Model T spawned mass automobility, altering our living patterns, our leisure activities, our landscape, even our atmosphere.
Sorce: https://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/hf/Henry_Ford_Legacy.asp