Unit 6: Imperialism and WWI
Timeline
Trigger Words
Birth of a Nation
Producer D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) was an important breakthrough in cinema. It signaled a technological and artistic improvement in movie making and appealed to a more cultivated audience than earlier movies. The film was a sympathetic treatment of the Ku Klux Klan.
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy was a foreign policy associated with the presidency of William Taft. It reasoned that American economic penetration would bring stability and safety to underdeveloped nations (particularly in Latin America and Asia), and bring profit and power to the United States without the need to for actual U.S. control of the region.
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem, New York, in the 1920s was the largest black city in the world and the cultural capital of African Americans. A multitude of talented black artists and writers found an audience, both black and white, for their artistic and literary expressions of black pride and other themes.
Ku Klux Klan
Southerners who objected to congressional Reconstruction policies founded several secret terrorist societies, the Ku Klux Klan was one of these. It was organized in Tennessee in 1866 and became a vigilante group dedicated to driving blacks out of politics by using intimidation and violence.
Nativist
Nativists were those Americans who feared that large-scale immigration might alter the basic political and social character of the United States.
Palmer Raids
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, concerned that the United States was in danger of a communist takeover in 1919, ordered a series of roundups and raids on suspected communists. The raids, a product of the postwar Red Scare, clearly violated the civil liberties of many innocent people.
Schechter v. U.S.
In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled in "Schechter v. United States" (also known as the "sick chicken case") that the NIRA was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the NIRA gave too much legislative power to the executive branch and code authorities.
Volstead Act
This 1920 law defined the liquor forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment and gave enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
Producer D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) was an important breakthrough in cinema. It signaled a technological and artistic improvement in movie making and appealed to a more cultivated audience than earlier movies. The film was a sympathetic treatment of the Ku Klux Klan.
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy was a foreign policy associated with the presidency of William Taft. It reasoned that American economic penetration would bring stability and safety to underdeveloped nations (particularly in Latin America and Asia), and bring profit and power to the United States without the need to for actual U.S. control of the region.
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem, New York, in the 1920s was the largest black city in the world and the cultural capital of African Americans. A multitude of talented black artists and writers found an audience, both black and white, for their artistic and literary expressions of black pride and other themes.
Ku Klux Klan
Southerners who objected to congressional Reconstruction policies founded several secret terrorist societies, the Ku Klux Klan was one of these. It was organized in Tennessee in 1866 and became a vigilante group dedicated to driving blacks out of politics by using intimidation and violence.
Nativist
Nativists were those Americans who feared that large-scale immigration might alter the basic political and social character of the United States.
Palmer Raids
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, concerned that the United States was in danger of a communist takeover in 1919, ordered a series of roundups and raids on suspected communists. The raids, a product of the postwar Red Scare, clearly violated the civil liberties of many innocent people.
Schechter v. U.S.
In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled in "Schechter v. United States" (also known as the "sick chicken case") that the NIRA was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the NIRA gave too much legislative power to the executive branch and code authorities.
Volstead Act
This 1920 law defined the liquor forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment and gave enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
4 Worlds
Primary Sources
Reminiscences of a Rebel This is an excerpt of an interview with an anonymous person who did not favor the war. This person openly rejected the Great War and was called a coward for being unpatriotic and not supporting the American war effort against the central powers.
This interview is significant because this anonymous crusader represents an entire demographic of American citizens who disagreeed with the war, but were too afraid to face the consequences set in place by both the Espionage and Sedition Acts. Jared C. |
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier This anti-war song was written by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi who recognized the opposition to the war and decided to capture the pure heartbreak of each parent with a son in the war. While this is a song about a mother's heartbreak, it is also a call to other women to stand up against the war to keep their sons' home and safe.
This song is significant because it shows another aspect of American society; the opposition. This song captures the nationwide skepticism of the war in Europe. Shayla C. |
Suffragists' Machine This article is about the work and effort that women go through to try to gain the right to vote. It addresses claims like women don't have the same mental capacity as men, and completely falsifies the claim. It is proven that women are just as able as men because they can take over the factory jobs while the men were away and do the job correctly.
This article and the suffrage movement in general is signifcant because women are finally becoming men's equals and being treated like so. Rachel M. |
U.S Closed on Account of Strikes This is a political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam looking astonished holding a sign that says "U.S. Closed on Account of Strikes" while to men, respectively labled Capital and Labor, sit on the ground, clearly not working. The caption below the the cartoon reads "If capital and labor don't pull together."
This cartoon is significant because it depicts the conflict between laborers and employers all across America. If America has the capital, but no laborers due to captialist greed, the country won't prosper becuase the workers will go on strike because they need better wages to live. John M. |
Optional Bonus
Shayla Calleros