The Roaring 20s, the Jazz Age & Mexican Immigration History Notes 9-1

Women in the 1920s More women working , gaining education, and earning higher wages Women gained right to Vote Margret Sanger: supporter of birth control and sexual liberation for women Flappers: women that smoked, drank, wore sexy clothes and listened to Jazz music

Women in the 1920s

Prohibition of Alcohol 18th Amendment – banned alcohol in U.S. Alcohol caused unemployment, domestic violence Arrests of bootleggers (make and smuggle alcohol) Speakeasies: secret underground bars for drinking gambling, and partying 21st Amendment – ended ban on alcohol

Prohibition of Alcohol

Technology Car: increased convenience, commute to work, high standard of living Mass production in assembly lines Wright Brothers: 1st successful airplane

Technology

Technology Entertainment on radio or silent movies becomes important Use cars to travel and see movies Advertisements aimed at consumers

Technology

The Harlem Renaissance Movement of African-American racial pride, art, literature, and political organization Writers like Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance Jazz and Blues music: Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday Cotton Club: most famous nightclub in Harlem, featured black performers Only whites in the audience

The Harlem Renaissance

Immigration to the U.S. Emergency Quota Act (1921): restricted immigration based on ethnic group National Origins Act (1924): set stricter limits for immigrants allowed into U.S., favored Europeans No Asians allowed to move to U.S.

Immigration to the U.S.

Diego Rivera Mexican artist, painted cubist style art Painted murals during Mexican Revolution showing Mexican people throughout history (1928) major project painting the Palacio Nacional in Mexico

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Americanization of Mexicans Stereotype: Mexicans viewed as dirty, lazy, irresponsible White Anglos-Saxon Protestant (WASP): considered “real Americans” started a campaign of fear to stop immigration to the U.S. IQ Tests used to discriminate against Mexicans

Americanization of Mexicans

Americanization of Mexicans (1892) Mexican children denied entrance to white schools Adolpho Romo: successfully sued Tempe School to get children admitted (1925) Mexican children require to say Pledge of Allegiance

Anti-Mexican Feelings and Actions in the U.S. Bad economy and high unemployment blamed on Mexican laborers Mexicans sent to concentration camps, deported, cheated out of wages Emergency Quota Act: restricting who is allowed into U.S. Goal: to keep America white

Anti-Mexican Feelings and Actions in the U.S.

League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC: political organization that protects rights of Mexican-Americans Women’s rights Better schools Voter registration economic, social, and racial equality

League of United Latin American Citizens