USH Weekly Blog 1-23/1-27

Monday: Talked about the inauguration and things that go along with it

Continued on women rights

Many women were still house wives
Working women increased by 25%
- Factory workers
- Secretaries
- Salesclerks
- Telephone operators
Women attending college rose by 10%
Women got the right to votes
- Focus of the Women's Right Movements
- Property laws
- Equal guardianship of children
- New divorce laws
- Improved working conditions
- Higher wages
- Access to higher education
Famous Women
- Margaret Sanger
  - The american birth control league
  - Today is known as Planned Parenthood
- Alice Paul
  - Architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements
  - Securing equal rights of all women

Economy and Strikes

Red Scare

America's fear of:
- communists
- Socialists
- Immigrants
  - They were going to take over America's government
Fear started when:
- People found out that spies were selling U.S government's secrets to the soviets
Causes:
- The Bolshevik Revolution
- Immigrants from Russia were going to come to America
Attorney General Palmer
- Took the law into his own hands
  - Started Raiding homes
  - Clubs
  - Union Halls
  - Coffee shops
- Resulting in:
  - 5,000 people held in jail
  - Not allowed to call anyone
  - Treated terribly
- Most people deported did nothing wrong
- America did want any immigrants
  - They created anti-immigration acts
Anti-Immigration Acts
- 1917
  - People from:
    - Eastern Asia
    - Europe
  - Were forbidden to come to the U.S
- 1921
  - Limited the number of immigrant that came to the U.S
- 1924
  - Made each person that came into the U.S pay for a visa
    - They were $9-10
- These acts made less and less people come to America
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- Two men that were immigrants
- Robbin Slater and Morrill shoe factory
- Killed: '
  - Frederick Parmenter (Payroll clerk)
  - And Alessandro Beradelli (Security Guard)
- There was no evidence
- It was a big deal because they were Italian immigrants

Harlem Renaissance and KKK

Harlem Renaissance
- Cultural
- Social
- Artistic
- Took place at the end of world war 1
Type of people present in the Harlem Renaissance:
- Writers
- Artist
- Musicians
  - Louis Armstrong
- Photographs
- Scholars
Where they were from
- Most were from the south
- Fled caste system in order to find a place to freely express their talents
- Also known as the Great Migration
Famous People
- Langston Hughes
  - Poet
- Claude McKay
  - Writer
  - Poet
- Countee Cullen
  - Poet
  - Author
  - Scholar
- Arna Bontemps
  - Poet
  - Novelist
  - Librarian
- Zora Neale Hurston
  - Novelist
  - Short Story Writer
  - Folklorist
  - Anthropologist
- Louis Armstrong
  - Famous Jazz Musician
  - Skilled Scat Singer
KKK
Ku Klux Klan
- Hate Group
- Stared on March 3rd, 1866
- Hated on:
  - African Americans
  - Catholics
  - Jew
  - Immigrants
- They hated them because:
  - They were after something called "white power" and often committed violent acts such a killing people
- There are 40 klans in all, all with the same name and ideas
- Currently there are 5,000 to 8,000 active KKK members
- The followers wear white and the leader wears red

Politics

Republican candidate for 1920 election
- Warren G. Harding
  - 29th president
  - Senator of Ohio
  - "Return to Normalcy"
  - Energetic strategy
  - "America First"
  - Child welfare
  - Unemployment
  - Bill with African Americans
Democratic Candidate
- James M. Cox
  - Governor
  - Newspaper publisher
  - Domestic issues
  - Fights
    - Lower income tax
    - Inflation
    - Women's Rights
Teapot Dome Scandal
- Oil
- Rock formation
- Wyoming
- Bribery
- Government owned land
Republican candidate of 1924
- Calvin Coolidge
  - 30th president
  - Governor of Massachusetts
  - Lawyer
  - Vermont
  - Modernized
  - Corruption
  - Taxes
  - Indian citizen act
  - More for the people
Democratic Candidate of 1924
- John W. Davis
  - American Politician
  - Was a U.S rep
  - Ambassador of Great Britain
  - Sized nation steel mills
Republican candidate of 1928
- Herbert C. Hoover
  - 31st president
  - Failed to recognize the economy failing
  - Mining Engineer
  - Iowa
  - Lead economic recovery
  - Advocated stronger labor laws
Democratic Candidate of 1928
- Alfred E. Smith
  - Speaker
  - Urban
  - Leader of PM
  - Anti-Prohibition
Normalcy & Isolationism
- Other Countries
- Agreements/Diplomacy
- Peace and order
Trickle Down Theory
- Gains tax breakers
- Other financial business
- Helps economy grow
Rugged Individualism
- All individualism should pull own weight
Laissez-Faire
- Idea/concept of letting things take their own course

Automobile

Electricity

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