1. In 1916 Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to be elected into the United States congress. Rankin gave women a voice at a time they did not have one. She was the only woman who voted to give women the right to vote. She opened debates in congress about a constitutional amendment which gave all women the right to vote. Rankin paved the way for women like Alice Mary Robertson (who became the first to overthrow a man in a general election). She made it possible for people like myself to speak out against society.
2. On December 18 1917 the 18th amendment which banned the sale of any alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic content greater than 2.75% was proposed by the United States Senate. On January 17 1919 the amendment became ratified. At first Americans were in agreement with this amendment because Dry activists reasoned that the barley which was used in beer brewing could be made into bread to feed American soldiers. People became desperate
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Filipino, along with Latino farmworkers joined together in a strike on September 8, 1965. This strike became known as the Delano Grape Pickers Strike. The Delano area grape growers paid the workers poorly and left them in terrible conditions. This began a strike led by Cesar Chavez. Cesar convinced the strikers to vow to remain nonviolent. He set an example and showed the strikers that nonviolence was more powerful than violence because it presses people to be creative. He went on a 25 day fast drinking only water as an act of repentance for those who supported violence. His fast did not encourage the growers to pay the workers better so he and the United Farm Workers (UFW) travelled across the U.S. telling stories, and gathering support for the grape boycott. The stories told connected families in large cities to families working on farms and vineyards. Millions of people stopped eating grapes and this lead to the success of the boycott. This victory secured a place for the UFC in the civil rights
On December 16, 1919, however, prohibition became the law of the land in the passing of the 18th Amendment which stated "...the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors ... for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited." (Constitution). This created a mixed bag of reactions by the citizenry.
On January 16 of 1920, The 18th amendment went into effect. The 18th amendment restricted the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition, as this time came to be known, did not end until December 5, 1933, when the 21st amendment was passed and ratified, ending National Prohibition. Supporters of Prohibition believed that it would help control social problems and economic problems as well. What Prohibition did was the totally opposite, Prohibition became a failure. Prohibition led to an increase in organize crime because violent criminals rose to powers, alcoholic-related crimes increased, and more politicians and police officials became corrupt.
Chapter 7 refers to the many different types of Federal and State surveys that are nonsectionalized.
People in the hollows of Appalachia who manufactured “moonshine” are doing the same as their ancestors did in the borderlands of northern Britain
In June 1744, the Iroquois and representatives from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to resolve conflicts and negotiate on agreements. These meetings were called the Covenant Chain.
German settlements dominated certain districts and moved down to western parts of Maryland, Virginia, and Carolinas.
5.5. Spain watched Portugal’s success with exploration and slaving with envy and wanted a piece of the pie.
In 1920, The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution that prohibits the manufacture, sales, and transportation of the alcohol was passed and continued until 1933.
Many things emerged in cities because that was where most people worked and was the greatest population place. Hull House allowed for better working conditions
What are the main points of this reading (focus on concepts, ideas, and then, not on individual facts)? Chapter 27 deals with the politics and cultural abundances during the Cold War. Because of the Cold War the U.S. gained many new technologies and ideas such as the interstate. Space Shuttles and tornado sirens were also created because of the Cold War era and the new threats it brought. Suburb development was the major effect of the new economic era. We developed new housing areas such as Levittown, along with the new area came new shopping malls and urbanization. There was still the threat of nuclear destruction in this time of development. Many leaders were afraid of the Domino Theory that would allow communism to spread at an alarming rate. One major battle that came from this idea was the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. Along with the new economic and political changes came social and cultural changes. Texas and Florida were being flooded with Mexican Americans who came to work in the U.S. and then were supposed to go back to Mexico. African and Mexican Americans were fighting for their civil rights and equality. One example of Mexican Americans struggling for civil rights was Hernandez vs. Texas. African-Americans had a huge movement forward during this time. There was the Little Rock Nine, Martian Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott. Throughout this hard time many minorities gained rights and equality. The Cold War era had a huge
Cesar Chavez had a view that all races work together for one goal, he had the strikers of Delano take a “solemn vow of nonviolence” (Cesar Chavez Foundation, chavezfoundatio.org, ‘Against All Odds’: Cesar Chavez & the Delano Grape Strike). Chavez followed the examples set forth by M.K. Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by using the nonviolence strategy. However for the first time in American History, Chavez used an untested method when he boycotted using California table grapes. The outcome surfaced an exceptional result of major support from outside the Central Valley. The UFW received support from other unions, church activists, and students and civil rights groups. The step was initiated when Cesar Chavez led a 300-mile march that started in Delano and ended at the State Capital of Sacramento. The union garnered National attention across the country and it gave birth and served as the UFW’s stand against unjust treatment against minority
Chapter eight starts After Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory, the size of the United States doubled. The U.S. now bordered Mexico, which had won its independence from Spain in the 1820s. In 1836, Texas broke off from Mexico and formed its own republic; in 1845, under the presidency of James Polk, and the U.S. brought Texas into the union, though the Mexican government continued to regard Texas as a part of Mexico. Polk was an expansionist president some would say although I think he just wanted as much as he could get so he ordered General Zachary Taylor(the future president of the United States) to provoke Mexican troops near the Rio Grande. Around the same time In 1846,
By the end of the program, farm labor unions began to form which eventually led to the abolishment of laws stating it was illegal to organize farm labor. This lead the way to the grape strikes in California and the boycotts in stores, lead by Filipino farm workers. After the first strike several various organizations began to form and led similar movements around the country. Through the 1960s to the 1980s, Cesar Chavez was a major inspiration to such movements and organizations. One of the most notable protests was when Chavez and the UFW marched from the Coachella Valley to the Mexican
January 1920, the opening year of the 18th Amendment that sought banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” within the United States and its US territories. Many Americans relate this era with speakeasy, public law breaking, and a public disregard for the establishment of prohibition. The 18th Amendment was the first constitutional amendment that sought to limit the rights of citizens and their rights to drink. This would become an attempt that many would soon come to realize as one of the greatest failures in law enforcement in American History. For if an American wants to drink, those with the American spirit for rebellion will surly offer him one.
In the same year, the Congress submitted the 18th Amendment. This had banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, for state ratification. Even though the Congress had stipulated a seven-year time limit for the process. The amendment had received support of the necessary three-quarters of US states in only eleven months.