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January, 1 ,1930
Decade In Review
This decade has been a very crazy one with many different events inventions, wars, treaties, and all sorts of fun stuff let us take a look back on the 1920's
Table of Contents
Page 1 Cover Page
Page 2 Table of contents
Page 3 The Return of Nativism
Page 4 Politics
Page 5 Court Cases
The Return of Nativism
The Return of Nativism
Nativism is the protection of the interests of the native-born or established inhabitants of an area of its' immigrants, and this policy made a return in the 1920's because of large amount of immigrants, particularly the Chinese, that migrated to the west coast taking jobs and land from the people who already lived there.The U.S. government took measures to restrict the flow of migrants through various anti-immigration laws such as: the emergency quota act of 1921, the immigration act of 1924,and National origin act of 1924. Additionally this immigration issue sparked the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, which sought to restrict immigration and persecute catholics.
Politics
Warren G. Harding was a president at the end of the first world war and was notorious for providing his friends with jobs and these friends were very susceptible to bribes such as in the teapot dome scandal. however not all was bad for the kellogg briad pact was created which effectively removed war as pat of a foreign policy.
Court Cases
The main court cases of the 1920's were focused on the freedom of speech and violation of individual rights. for example the red scare or the panic of communism caused many suspected and accused communists to be arrested or deported often without any trial.same thing with the palmer raids and sacco & vanzetti. schneck vs. the united states was the court case that set the precedent for many future court cases as the verdict was that in a time of crisis the government was allowed to violate civil liberties.
Scopes Monkey Trial
in the 1920s, a tennesee substitute teacher, John scopes, was tried for teaching evolution in a public school. Clarence Darrow was the defendant's lawyer, and William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor. the verdict end up costing John scopes $100 and brought attention to the religion vs. science debate.
Inventions and Culture
There was a lot of innovations and culture introduced in the 1920s.
the wright brothers flew the first airplane and led to the first hydroeroplane in the 1920s.
Henry ford introduced the assembly line and mass produced cars for the first time ever.
the jazz age, coined by Scott Fitzgerald, was the result of jazz musicians from the south traveling up north.
Letter to the Editor
why isn't prohibition struck down? it increases organized crime all over america and causes normal law-abiding citizens to skirt the law by bootlegging and traveling to speakeasies.additionally, it causes many of the poor ex-brewers to have lost their jobs and this can't be stood for, no one deserves for the government to steal jobs, just because some people can;t deal with the drunkenness that is americans.
Political Cartoon
This political cartoon is about the campaign for women's suffrage, and clearly shows that the artist thinks that any oppisitionfor equal suffrage of women will be "flattened"