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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