https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn Made with mirth en-us 2016-12-12 16:29:12 UTC 2024-08-07 06:22:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143165898 2016-12-12 16:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143165898 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166144 A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.]]> 2016-12-12 16:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166144 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166208 The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.]]> 2016-12-12 16:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166208 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166385 Nativism is the political position of supporting a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation (i.e. self-identified citizens) as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] According to Fetzer, (2000) opposition to immigration is common in many countries because of issues of national, cultural, and religious identity.]]> 2016-12-12 16:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166385 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166466 While eugenic principles have been practiced as far back in world history as ancient Greece, the modern history of eugenics began in the early 20th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom]]> 2016-12-12 16:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166466 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166759  the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, and, especially in later iterations, Nordicism, anti-Catholicism, and antisemitism.]]> 2016-12-12 16:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166759 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166820 Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs ]]> 2016-12-12 16:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166820 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166880 Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced]]> 2016-12-12 16:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166880 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166997 A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.]]> 2016-12-12 16:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143166997 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167176 Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior]]> 2016-12-12 16:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167176 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167267 Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".]]> 2016-12-12 16:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167267 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167382 Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century ]]> 2016-12-12 16:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167382 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167524 Style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. It became popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theaters, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.]]> 2016-12-12 16:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167524 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167615 Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.]]> 2016-12-12 16:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167615 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167796 automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.[6][7] It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting]]> 2016-12-12 16:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167796 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167996 The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanned the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.]]> 2016-12-12 16:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143167996 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168133 The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement, and proved to be popular among African-Americans.]]> 2016-12-12 16:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168133 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168221  The latest Tweets from NAACP (@NAACP). Founded 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization. ]]> 2016-12-12 16:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168221 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168302 Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ]]> 2016-12-12 16:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168302 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168348  The Installment Payment Plan is available to all eligible students except financial aid recipients who have sufficient funds to cover the State University Fee. ]]> 2016-12-12 16:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168348 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168450  Find out more about the history of 18th and 21st Amendments, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. ]]> 2016-12-12 16:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168450 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168629  Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote ]]> 2016-12-12 16:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168629 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168685  The nation’s fourteen-year experiment with prohibition ended on December 5, 1933, when Utah became the thirty-sixth state to ratify Amendment XXI. Amendment XXI returned the regulation of alcohol to the states. Each state sets its own rules for the sale and importation of alcohol, including the drinking age. ]]> 2016-12-12 16:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168685 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168737 2016-12-12 16:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168737 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168782 The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.]]> 2016-12-12 16:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168782 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168884 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company on April 15, 1920, in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States ]]> 2016-12-12 16:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168884 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168930 The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school]]> 2016-12-12 16:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168930 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168978 The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.]]> 2016-12-12 16:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143168978 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169048 Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.]]> 2016-12-12 16:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169048 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169181 Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. At the time of his death, he was one of the most popular presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration, such as Teapot Dome, eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses.]]> 2016-12-12 16:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169181 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169230  John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor ]]> 2016-12-12 16:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169230 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169269 Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro]]> 2016-12-12 16:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169269 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169414  Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 ]]> 2016-12-12 16:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169414 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169482  James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz ]]> 2016-12-12 16:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169482 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169575  Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet andcornet player, Armstrong was a foundation influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance ]]> 2016-12-12 16:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169575 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169626 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years]]> 2016-12-12 16:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/9ntlwuyr4sqn/wish/143169626