Unit 6 Trigger Words
Shastine's
1 Article 10
- called for mutual defense by the signers of the League of Nations- pledge that each nation would respect & preserve the territorial integrity & political independence of all the Members of the League
2 Birth of Nation
This a silent film that was written and directed by D. W. Griffith. It was a movie that glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroes and black people as savages. Black people were played by white actors in black make up (blackface). This movie is also credited for the spark to why the second era of the KKK.
3 Dollar Diplomacy
President Taft's policy of using economic interests as an inconspicuous way to bind other nations to the US
4 KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
An extremists organization founded in Tennessee by Nathan Bedford Forest that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to regain white supremacy in the southern states after the civil war. They were led by planters, merchants and Democratic politicians and they targeted Republican leaders (black and white) and African American people.
5 Nativism
Beliefs and policies favoring native-born citizens over immigrants.
6 Palmer Raids
Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States
7 Schenck v. US
(1919, 9-0 for government) WWI, passed around circulars encouraging people to dodge the draft. First Amendment Clear and Present Danger Doctrine: If Your actions can harm the government, the government can prevent you from those actions.
8 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.
9 Harlem Renaissance -
A gathering of black artists & musicians, which was a rebirth of African-American culture -used principles of synthetic cubism to depict history of people.-recalls dynamic energy of jazz
- called for mutual defense by the signers of the League of Nations- pledge that each nation would respect & preserve the territorial integrity & political independence of all the Members of the League
2 Birth of Nation
This a silent film that was written and directed by D. W. Griffith. It was a movie that glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroes and black people as savages. Black people were played by white actors in black make up (blackface). This movie is also credited for the spark to why the second era of the KKK.
3 Dollar Diplomacy
President Taft's policy of using economic interests as an inconspicuous way to bind other nations to the US
4 KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
An extremists organization founded in Tennessee by Nathan Bedford Forest that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to regain white supremacy in the southern states after the civil war. They were led by planters, merchants and Democratic politicians and they targeted Republican leaders (black and white) and African American people.
5 Nativism
Beliefs and policies favoring native-born citizens over immigrants.
6 Palmer Raids
Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States
7 Schenck v. US
(1919, 9-0 for government) WWI, passed around circulars encouraging people to dodge the draft. First Amendment Clear and Present Danger Doctrine: If Your actions can harm the government, the government can prevent you from those actions.
8 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.
9 Harlem Renaissance -
A gathering of black artists & musicians, which was a rebirth of African-American culture -used principles of synthetic cubism to depict history of people.-recalls dynamic energy of jazz
Sarah's Timeline
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Sarah's Primary Sourcehttp://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/3/
This interview is between a German-American, and an American reporter during WWI, and the links at the lead to other horror stories the German's faced during this time. In the dialogue "We had to be so Careful", the man talks about how people would hang up on them if they spoke German on the phone, and how they could just feel an overall sense of hatred towards their families. And in the other article "Get the Rope" a German-American man describes an extremely violent attack on him and his family by a nativist mob. Both of these articles depict the fear that German Americans had to live in during world war 1. Even though most of them were happy and peaceful families just trying to live the American dream, they were under attack by fearful people. As shown in the first passage, Anti-German propaganda was all around them and was constantly reinforcing the American public's false image of Germans living in America (I bet they all hated George Creel!). |
Shastine's Primary Source:
Source: http://www.herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/945 This is a letter from Galicano Apacible, a Filipino nationalist, regarding the treatment and relationship between America and the Philippines. He is concerned about how the Americans are treating them like the Spanish-- keeping them down. He believes that the Filipinos have shown enough potential that they can govern their own government. He is also concerned about how the U.S.A is "waging war" upon the Filipinos because of their rebellion. Which he believes is not rebellion at all. He believes they are just fighting for the people they love. Apacible sees McKinley's acts as to be keeping the Filipinos down and are not giving them a chance like the Spaniards. Apacible enforces the idea that they don't see Americans as their enemies, merely an ally to the only republic in Asia (Philippines). This is significant because we can clearly see how the Americans, although believing they are doing good, do not see the potential in any dark colored nation. For example, as they interfered in the affairs of Cuba, we see their mentality that they are superior, especially in Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Throughout the U.S.A's history, we see that they always keep the darker colored man down, as we see from Apacible's letter. In this letter, and other examples from TR's intervention in Latin America to the Cuban Revolution, we see that the mentality of Social Darwinism is alive and well in the American society. |