Week 03

Dust Bowl era in the United States on Prezi

Formative Assessment
Topic.07

The Scopes Trial- A teacher named John Scopes goes to trial for teaching evolution in school which leads to a bigger picture of God v. Darwin

Prohibition- pushed mostly by women and smart business men, stating that manufacturing and distribution of alcohol is illegal, enforced by IRS, caused more trouble, crime and bars than anything, overrided by 21st Amendment

Flappers- ladies with short hair and a lot of make-up that wore dresses showing their knees, gams, and shoulders that also smoked and drank in public, got their names because the dresses they wore flapped and just hung

Economic Issues (1920s)- the demand for products grew due to a new concept called credit -buying with money that isn't really there- along with low interest rates and the introduction of the installment plan, professional guessers or better known as investors work with stock market speculation, people start buying shares of on margin -paying for a fraction of the price and "margin" paying for the rest and after you resell the stocks you pay off the margin price whether the value of your stock increased or decreased-

Dust Bowl-over farmed land not given enough time to recover so no nutrients holding the top soil down making the wind pick up and blow around dirt

Agriculture Issues- machines make farming easier and faster achieving maximum income at time but farmers getting greedy and not rotation the land

Immigration Policies (1920s)-Limiting immigrants and not allowing any Asians into the country mostly due to Americans being scared of foreigners

Nativism- Americans proud to be born and raised in the States

Significant Literary Works (1920s)- people where experiencing the power of the written word: Jacob Reese writes "How the Other Half Lives" , Elton Sinclair writes "The Jungle", and Ralf Nader (in the 1950s but correlated because the automobile was introduced in the 20s but no seatbealt) writes "Unsafe at Any Speed"

The Great Migration- African Americans moving from the rural south to the city north, caused racial tensions in places where they didn't exist before resulting in a new wave of KKK -larger and killing Jews, Catholics, Immigrants, and Divorcees among with Blacks-

Harlem Renaissance- African American embraced their color and culture for the first time, expressed themselves through arts such as music, literature, and art

Sacco and Vanzetti- Italian Anarchists, in 1927 sentenced to death later to find out that they might of not been guilty, followed Galleani Luigi -bomb Wall St. and made bombs-

Labor Issues (1920s)- while soldiers where away at war they got replaced at work and came back not having a job, women started working

The Red Scare- Americans became scared of anything non-American especially those who were foreign, Palmer Raids -big groups of people charged with conspiracy-

Schenck v. the United States- (in 1919) Charles Schenck, a member of the Socialist Party -a group of people that opposed the war and tried to get others to oppose believing that the war was being fought by the poor but only helped the rich- was tried for violating the Espionage Act, one of the first fights vs the State for the 1st Amendment