Anarchist: a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
Eugenics: The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Eugenics fueled the arguments for superiority of the original American image; White Protestants with European decent.
Source: A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained
Aspect: A particular part or feature of something
Flapper: A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior young woman who wore short skirts, loved jazz, bobbed up their hair, and word lots of makeup. They were known for drinking, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting sexual norms.
Ethic: A set of moral principles, esp. ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct
Evolution: The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
Creationism: The belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.
Police Powers: Is the capacity of the federal government and the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the general welfare, morals, health, and safety of their inhabitants.
Speakeasy: An establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition from 1920–1933, and longer in some states. (Also known as a blind pig, or a blind tiger). Speakeasies were so common, that there were over 100,000 in new york city alone.
Questions
What were causes and effects of anti–immigrant prejudices. ( should have 4 of each)
write down the specific events that led to a rise in nativism. Nativism, the late 19th century, was motivated by hostility toward immigrant workers, the need to reduce overcrowding in western states, cultural conflicts with Native American Indians, & the migration of African Americans North. stopped immigration.
Place the following acts of Congress in the order in which they were passed.
National Origins Act- Third 1924 Newlands Reclamation Act- First 1902 Emergency Quota Act- Second 1921
As you read, complete the following sentences to help you summarize the lesson.
Many people believed the prohibition of alcohol would help reduce , Consumption , and Crime .
The specifically granted the federal government, as well as the state governments, the power to enforce prohibition. Civil Rights act of 1964
Why was there a rise in racism and nativism in the 1920s? The rise of nativism in the 1920s was caused mainly by immigration. The massive influx of immigrants scared most people.
Of what did the clash of values in the 1920s and the changing status of women consist?
The change in role was also reflected in the media: the garçonne-look portrayed the ideal woman as an androgynous, working woman that had reached equality with men while simultaneously possessing the appeal of the femme fatale.
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Vocabulary
emerge- move out of or away from something and come into view.
diverse- showing a great deal of variety.
mass media- refers collectively to all media technologies, including the Internet, television, newspapers, and radio, which are used for mass communications, and to the organizations which control these.
unify- make or become united, uniform, or whole.
Questions
How did the explosion of art and literature reflect the disillusionment of 1920s artists?
What effects did sports, movies, radio, and music have on popular culture of the 1920s? The popularity of jazz, blues, and "hillbilly" music fueled the phonograph boom ... Commandments with its "cast of thousands" and dazzling special effects. ... Like radio, movies created a new popular culture with common speech, dress, behavior, and heroes ... Spectator sports attracted vast audiences in the 1920s.
What were the main characteristics of art, literature, and popular culture? It is manifest in preferences and acceptance or rejection of features in such various subjects as cooking, clothing, consumption, and the many facets of entertainment such as sports, music, film and literature.
As you read, compare the sports, movies, radio, or music of today with the discussion of those topics in the 1920s. Summarize your thoughts in a paragraph. Be sure to include ways that popular culture of the 1920s was similar to and different from popular culture today.
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Vocabulary
sought- attempt or desire to obtain or achieve; to attempt to find.
author- a writer of a book, article, or report.
jazz- a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz. Originated from New Orleans around 1865. They were influenced by the negro spiritual.
blues- melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern U.S. toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities "Great Migration". This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll. originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals,work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
impact- the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another.
Vocabulary
Questions
- What were causes and effects of anti–immigrant prejudices. ( should have 4 of each)
- write down the specific events that led to a rise in nativism. Nativism, the late 19th century, was motivated by hostility toward immigrant workers, the need to reduce overcrowding in western states, cultural conflicts with Native American Indians, & the migration of African Americans North. stopped immigration.
- Place the following acts of Congress in the order in which they were passed.
National Origins Act- Third 1924Newlands Reclamation Act- First 1902
Emergency Quota Act- Second 1921
As you read, complete the following sentences to help you summarize the lesson.
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Vocabulary
Questions
Part 3
Vocabulary
People and terms