Social Change is Taking Place
The Time For Change Is NOW!
1920's
Current Events
Today's current events are about Nativism on page 3, Politics on page 4, Court Cases on page 5, Scopes Monkey Trail on page 6, Culture on page 7, Prohibition on page 8 and Political Cartoon on page 9
Nativism is Rising!
Welcome to America, Now speak English
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. And its rising now because of immigrants. Laws that were passed because of Nativism are The Emergency Quota Law of 1921 which limits the number of immigrants entering the U.S another law is Married Women's Act which revokes the citizenship of women who married foreigners and the National Origins Act reduces the number of immigrants entering the U.S. Now the Ku Klux Klan are moving in many states and are dominating politics. They placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to control the state government.
Source: Boundless. “Nativism.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 20 Nov. 2015. Retrieved 08 Jan. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/from-the-new-era-to-the-great-depression-1920-1933-24/resistance-to-change-188/nativism-1046-1207/
Source: Boundless. “Nativism.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 20 Nov. 2015. Retrieved 08 Jan. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/from-the-new-era-to-the-great-depression-1920-1933-24/resistance-to-change-188/nativism-1046-1207/
"Nativism, Immigration Restrictions, & the Red Scare" APUSHRoaring20s friday january 8 2016 https://apushroaring20s.wikispaces.com/Nativism,+Immigration+Restrictions,+and+the+Red+Scare
Politics of the Roaring 20's
You Cant Can the Can
The Teapot Dome Scandal is a bribery incident that is taking place during the administration of president Warren G. Harding. Also, Kellogg-Briand Pact is in effect which is an attempt to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. In this picture we see Coolidge signing Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact.
Source: "Teapot Dome Scandal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 08 Jan. 2016
<http://www.britannica.com/event/Teapot-Dome-Scandal>.
STRIKE CALLED
All Unions To Go Out
More and more people are being affected by the Red Scare which was created by the government to scare people by associating them by communists. Also the case Schenck V United States started with a man named Charles Schenck who was arrested for organizing a protest against the military draft.The Palmer Raids got very out of control as the U.S Department of Justice arrested many anarchists. Some anarchists are Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who murdered a guard and a paymaster during an armed robbery. In this picture we can see the Palmer Raids in effect on January 2nd 1920.
Source; "Red Scare" History.com staff 2010 january 8 2016 http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare
SCOPE MONKEY TRIAL RAISES TROUBLING QUESTION:
Is Science Being Taught In Our Schools?
John Scopes is a teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution. This trial raised country wide debate on whether people believed in evolution or creationism. Clarence Darrow defended Scopes and supports teaching evolution in schools. William Jennings Bryan is a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He started at the 1896 Democratic Convention with his Cross Of Gold speech that favored free silver but was defeated in his bid to become US president by William Mckinley.
Scource: "The Monkey Trial" ushistory.org US history online textbook Friday January 08 2016 http://www.ushistory.org/us/47b.asp
Our Culture
Music, literature, and fashion
Northern, single, young, middle-class women, or as we call them, Flappers, are expanding more and more. By but night, flappers engage in the active city nightlife where they go to jazz clubs and vaudeville shows. Speaking of jazz, many young people are now dancing. Jazz bands are now playing at dance halls like the Savoy in New York city. Also everyone is talking about the new book that came out; The Great Gatsby. The author F. Scott. Fitzgerald is a writer for jazz who captures his stories the exciting but also unsettling ways American society is changing. Source: "Flappers" ushistory.org USHistory Online Textbook Friday January 8 2016 http://www.ushistory.org/us/46d.asp
U.s is voted dry!
Prohibition sweeps the state!
On January 16, 1919, Nebraska became the 36th state to ratify the 18th amendment to the constitution. The amendment declared it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages in the United States. More than two-thirds of the senate, two-thirds of the House of Representatives, and three-fourths of the state legislatures now had approved the change. America is now a dry country. A visual representation of the spread of prohibition is down below.
Source: "Prohibition. Why did America change its mind?" 2013 The Prohibition Project friday january 8 2016
Political Cartoon of the Day
The issue about this cartoon is The Red Scare and assuming by this poster the cartoonist's opinion is that he/she is with The Red Scare and wants us to be afraid of communism and he/she is doing a fine job because its working. More and more people are getting scared thanks to the cartoonist's persuasive techniques but what could really frighten people is if he uses more exaggeration