Chapter 8.1 Part II

The Great Migration&

The Progressive Spirit

Today’s Agenda• Check and go over homework (Strikes)• Finish 8.1 • Complete #s 7-15

Smoking causes cancer, emphysema, poor blood circulation, not to mention bad breath, bad teeth,

and yellow finger nails.

It accounts for 39% of all preventable deaths.

A poor diet accounts for 28% of all deaths.

As people smoke, and overeat they get sick, they require more health care. This

causes the costs of health care to skyrocketing.

The Big Question• Can/should the government regulate

social behavior or to each his own?

What was the 18th Amendment (Volstead Act) Act of 1920?

• Called Prohibition• Outlawed (prohibited)

sale, manufacture and transportation of all alcoholic beverages

• By 1919 3/4th states were already “dry”

• Cities (large immigrant population) remained “wet”

Prohibition

What was the 19th Amendment?• Gave women right to vote• National Woman’s Party

– Alice Paul– Led National Woman's Party

(NWP) in 1916– Picketed White House, hunger

strikes• Press coverage embarrassed Wilson

– He gave his support in 1918• After suffrage women became

politically powerful• Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921

– gave $ for healthcare of pregnant women

What was the Great Migration?• Definition: Massive migration

of African Americans to northern cities between 1910 to 1929

• .5 million African Americans b/t 1916-20

• Went North seeking jobs, less discrimination

• Ford= went from 50 (1916) to over 10 thousand (1926)

• Chicago– Population went from 44

thousand to 234 thousand (1910-1930)

Describe the racial unrest that arose after the Great Migration.

• Viewed by northern whites as economic competitors

• Washington Riot– 200 sailors beat blacks in city

• Blacks countered with violence against whites entering their neighborhoods

• Ended when Wilson called out federal troops

• Sparked a growth in Black Activism

Who was Marcus Garvey• Jamaican who led a back-to-

Africa movement• Founded Universal Negro

Improvement Association• Declared himself president of

African Empire• Dressed flamboyantly• Black Star Line

– Garvey’s Fleet of Ships• Garvey charged with mail fraud

and deported

Describe progressivism after WWI.• Supreme Court struck down

many progressive laws– Child Labor Act of 1916

• Forbade Congress to use power to regulate commerce in order to regulate labor

• WWI, Labor violence, Red Scare pushed many progressives to more socially conservative views

The Taft Court1921-1930