The 1910

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The 1910s and 1920s

• Hollywood History

2
Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem City in New York
• African-Americans moving from south to north
• More economic opportunity
• Escape segregation and mistreatment
• Major changes in art, music and literature

3
The Lost Generation

• A group of writers living in Europe who were
  disillusioned with America
• Authors such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
  Fitzgerald

4
Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)

• John Scopes A Tennessee High School teacher who
  taught the Theory of Evolution as fact
• Illegal in Tenn.
• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) agreed
  to defend Scopes
• Clarence Darrow (lawyer representing Scopes) vs.
  William Jennings Bryan (counsel for the
  prosecution)
• Scopes found guilty and fined 100
• Trial seen as major case in science vs. religion
• Darrow examination of Bryan resulted in decrease
  in fundamentalism

5
Prohibition

• 18th Amendment (1919) Outlaws the sale,
  transportation and consumption of alcohol
• Alcohol seen as the reason for a decrease in
  religious morals and increase in unemployment
• 1920s Speakeasies (secret bars that served
  bootlegged alcohol) arose through major cities in
  the US
• Crime rose
• Police forces struggled to enforce prohibition
• 1933 Prohibition repealed

6
Immigration

• Angel Island Processing facility for all
  immigrants coming from the west
• Ellis Island Processing facility for all
  immigrants coming from the east
• Natives People who lived in the United States
  before the immigrants came over
• Nativist movements rose against Catholics and
  Asians
• Of the Catholics, the Irish felt the most pain
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Prohibited Chinese
  immigration (repealed in 1943)
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean people had to attend
  segregated schools

7
Votes for Women

• Before 1919, women were not nationally allowed to
  vote
• Through the 1910s, women stepped up suffrage
  movement
• English Horse Race
• Alice Paul and National Womans Party protest in
  front of White House
• 1919 19th Amendment, nationally granting women
  the right to vote is passed