Friday, February 11, 2011

concept7

the scopes trial- teacher was teaching evolution in school and was put on trial about it

Prohibition- during the 1920s alchol was restricted

flappers- women in 1920s who started to wear short dresses and possibly had ciggarette

economic issues- over producing with new technology

dustbowl- bad wheater-droughts decreased farm production

agriculture issues- rotate crops, drought made it hard to grow plants, tractors was a new technlolgy

immigration policies- started to not really like immigrants, put up laws started quotus

nativism- you dont like any ethnic group but your own

significant literacy- started to question/rebel against government and new technology

the great migration- blacks started to move toward the north

harlem renaissance- blacks in harlem started to do well for themselfs, got hope . exceeded in literature, art , music

sacco and venetti- accused of being spies, didnt like them because they were italian anarchist

labor issues- mass production wasnt working out to well for the workers, a lot of workers were unskilled

the red scare- america hates communism and russians after bolshevik revolution

schnek vs america-The Supreme Court decision defended the Espionage Act (1917) which concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech against the draft used in WWI

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