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Description
Mind Map by Daniel Easterbrook, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Easterbrook
over 10 years ago
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USA 1910-'29
Problems &
Challenges
- Immigration
- Demand for Restriction
- Legislative Restriction
- '17 Literacy Test
- All immigrants had to pass English Literacy Test
- All immigrants had to pass English Literacy Test
- '21 Emergency Quota Act
- 3% Quota - Based upon '10 Population - Allowed 357,000 Immigrants Per Year
- 3% Quota - Based upon '10 Population - Allowed 357,000 Immigrants Per Year
- '29 Immigration Act
- Restricted immigration to 150,000 Per Year.
- No Asians
- 85% places allocated to Northern & Western Europe
- Restricted immigration to 150,000 Per Year.
- '24 National Origins Act
- Cut Quota to 2% based on 1890 Census - More North Europeans granted
entry
- Cut Quota to 2% based on 1890 Census - More North Europeans granted
entry
- '17 Literacy Test
- Felt Swamped
- Little to offer
- Growth of Xenophobia
- Rise of Communism
- Cultural & Religious background differences
- Legislative Restriction
- Why Emigrate?
- Adventure
- American Dream
- Escape war torn Europe
- Evade political/Religious
persecution
- Adventure
- Demand for Restriction
- Political Extremes
- Red Scare
- Americans alarmed over Bolshevik Revolution
- Many feared immigrants would spread anarchy & communism
- Many feared immigrants would spread anarchy & communism
- 3,600 strikes during 1919
- Bomb attack on Attny-Gen Palmer
- Anarchist Bomb exploded on Wall St. Killing 38
- Americans alarmed over Bolshevik Revolution
- Palmer Raids
- Response to the bombing of his home
- Raids involved the arrest of 6000 suspected communists
- Many held for weeks before deportation
- Many held for weeks before deportation
- Response to the bombing of his home
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Sacco & Vanzetti arrested & charged May '20
- Weak case
- 61 eyewitnesses v 107 counter witnesses
- Judge Webster-Thayer seemed determined to deliver a guilty verdict
- 61 eyewitnesses v 107 counter witnesses
- Jury found them guilty - Death Peneltey
- Typifies hysteria of Red Scare
- Sacco & Vanzetti arrested & charged May '20
- Red Scare
- Religious Fundementalism
- Bible belt States
- Christians who took the words of the bible literally
- Banned teaching of evolution in school
- John Scopes ignored the ban and was put on trial in '25
- Fined $100
- Fined $100
- John Scopes ignored the ban and was put on trial in '25
- Bible belt States
- Attitudes towards Racial Minorities
- Jim Crow Laws
- 75% Blacks lived in South
- White controlled state
- White controlled state
- Segregated black & whites
- All areas of life separated
- 75% Blacks lived in South
- Great Migration
- Many, moved north in search of better life away from Jim Crow Laws
- 1Mil moved North
- Still 2nd class citizens
- Many, moved north in search of better life away from Jim Crow Laws
- Reaction to racial injustice
- NAACP
- Peaceful none violent protest
- Legal
- William Du Boris
- Peaceful none violent protest
- UNIA
- Marcus Garvey
- Watched by FBI
- Charged with postal fruad
- Deported
- UNIA fell apart
- UNIA fell apart
- Deported
- Charged with postal fruad
- Watched by FBI
- 250k members at peak
- Believed Blacks should not be part of white society
- Celebrate Blackness
- Celebrate Blackness
- Marcus Garvey
- NAACP
- Treatment of Native Americans
- Denied US Citizenship until '24
- Encouraged to reject their culture & intergrate
- Treated as Second class citizens
- Denied US Citizenship until '24
- KKK Growth
- Revived post-release of the film 'Birth of a Nation'
- William J Simmons
- William J Simmons
- Only open to wasps
- rise in members during red scare
- It's failure
- Sharp decline with the conviction of Grand Dragon Stephenson
- His comments on KKK's activities created bad PR
- His comments on KKK's activities created bad PR
- Sharp decline with the conviction of Grand Dragon Stephenson
- Revived post-release of the film 'Birth of a Nation'
- Jim Crow Laws
- Organised Crime & Corruption
- Prohibition
- Enforcement issues
- Bootleggers - Alcohol smuggling
- Moonshiners - Home brewed Alcohol
- Speakeasies - Sold Illegal alcohol
- Too few enforcement agents
- Bootleggers - Alcohol smuggling
- The end of Prohibition
- '30 widespread widespread opposition
- 50k deaths by illegal alcohol consumption
- Increased Violence - Gang activities
- '30 widespread widespread opposition
- Reasons behind Prohibition
- Increase in Lawlessness
- drinking lowered moral standards
- Alcohol deemed reason for wife beating
- Pressure groups
- Increase in Lawlessness
- Enforcement issues
- Growth of Organised Crime
- Teapot Dome
- President Harding appointed friends from Ohio into office
- Used powers for their own financial gains
- Used powers for their own financial gains
- Albert Fall
- Leased out Gov. Land in Teapot dome Wyoming
- Received 400k in illegal payments from oil companies
- Details leaked to press in '22
- Government enquiry demanded
- Fall ordered to pay 100k and was sent to Prison
- Fall ordered to pay 100k and was sent to Prison
- Government enquiry demanded
- Leased out Gov. Land in Teapot dome Wyoming
- President Harding appointed friends from Ohio into office
- Al Capone
- Followed Johnny Torrio's gang - rose up the ranks
- Took over operations in Chicago
- Took over operations in Chicago
- Built an Empire with held of bribes
- 200 rivals killed between '25 & '29
- Found guilty of tax evasion in '31
- Marked an end to the age of the gangster
- Marked an end to the age of the gangster
- Followed Johnny Torrio's gang - rose up the ranks
- St. Valentines day massacare
- Attempt to kill Bugs Moran
- No direct evidence - Could con't arrest or convict Capone
- Attempt to kill Bugs Moran
- Teapot Dome
- Prohibition
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