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Discussion Questions. Group 1: Explain the effect of wartime nationalism and post-war panic on immigration. Group 2: Discuss the impact of immigration reform in general, as well as its specific impact on Asian Americans. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Discussion Questions
Group 1: Explain the effect of wartime nationalism and post-war panic on immigration.
Group 2: Discuss the impact of immigration reform in general, as well as its specific impact on Asian Americans.
Group 3: Describe the immigration situation with Western Hemisphere nations. What changes were seen in the immigration of Mexicans?
Group 4: Explain the “race problem” in terms of regions. What changes did we see during and after World War I?
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A Clash of ValuesChapter 10, Section 3
Nativism
Belief that one’s native land needs to be protected against immigrants
Economic recession, influx of immigrants, cultural tensions
Fear and prejudice against Germans and Communists
Blaming immigrants for bombings and loss of jobs
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
15 April 1920
Two men robbed and murdered two employees of a shoe factory
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested
Newspapers revealed they were anarchists
14 July 1921 – found guilty
6 years of appeals failed to save them from execution
Return of the KKK
Front runners of restricting immigration
Old Klan harassed newly freed African Americans
New Klan now after Catholics, Jews, immigrants, etc. “Un-American”
William J. Simmons – preserve WASP culture
Immigration restrictions stripped Klan of major issue
Changes in Immigration
Keep America American
Emergency Quota Act Annual admission to the US = 3%
of total number of people in any ethnic group
National Origins Act Made immigration restriction
permanent 2% quotas based on census data
from 1890 Pre-dated influx from southern
and eastern Europe Deliberately favored immigrants
from northwestern Europe
Women’s Movement
“New Morality” glorified youth and personal freedom
Right to vote sought to break free of traditional roles Attitudes towards marriage changed
Joined workforce Break away parental authority Establish financial independence
Flapper Bobbed hair, smoked cigarettes,
drank liquor, wore makeup, sleeveless dresses, short skirts
Women’s Movement Cont.
Rise in female college attendance
Major contributions to: Medicine:
Florence Sabin and tuberculosis Literature: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edna Ferber
won Pulitzer Prizes Margaret Sanger
Families could improve standard of living by limiting number of children
American Birth Control League (1921) Planned Parenthood Increase use of birth control
Fundamentalism
“New morality” = moral decline
Bible was literally true and without error
Rejected theory of evolution
Creationism – God created the world as it was described in the Bible
Immigration to the United States, 1821-1900
1821-1840
1841-1860
1861-1880
1881-1900
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Northern, Western, and Central EuropeEastern and Southern EuropeAsiaAmericasOther
Immigration to the United States, 1901-1960
1901-1920 1921-1940 1941-19600
0.51
1.52
2.53
3.54
4.55
5.56
6.57
Northern, Western, and Central EuropeEastern and Southern EuropeAsiaAmericansOther
Scopes Trial
1925 Tennessee outlaws evolution
ACLU advertised for teacher to break law John T. Scopes, Biology
Prosecutor: William Jennings Bryan
Defense Attorney: Clarence Darrow
8 days of trial, Scopes guilty, $100 fine Overturned on a technicality
Fundamentalism in political activity declined
Creationism
God created the universe in 6 days
Earth is only 10,000 years old
Bible tells of actual events Great Flood Earth stood still
Evolution
Charles Darwin’s research
Geological evidence
Big Bang
**See Biblical stories as useful allegories
Prohibition
Rationale: Religious reasons Reduce unemployment, domestic
violence, and poverty
18th Amendment January 1920
Volstead Act US Treasury Department
responsible for enforcing Dramatic increase in Federal
police power
Prohibition Cont.
Treasury Department struggled to enforce 540,000 arrests
Blatantly ignoring the law Speakeasies Bootlegging
Organized crime made huge profits
Ending Prohibition
70 federal agents killed while enforcing Prohibition
Battle to repeal began immediately
21st Amendment 1933
Alcohol consumption down
Society not improved as hopes