https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz en-us 2017-11-03 13:49:55 UTC 2025-10-08 22:36:13 UTC hello@padlet.com boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203287096 Many Americans became afraid of outsiders. This is called xenophobia.]]> 2017-11-03 13:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203287096 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203287932 Americans started to feel superior over other countries and immigrants. This is called nativism]]> 2017-11-03 13:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203287932 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203288367 The US isolated itself by pulling out of all foreign activity. Weather it be trading, foreign policy, travel etc.]]> 2017-11-03 13:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203288367 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203289067 All of the loans the US made to Europe during the war were starting to add up. This caused the European agriculture to improve but it also caused the US farmers by adding competition and overproduction.]]> 2017-11-03 13:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203289067 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203291307 The 1920's census showed that migration to the cities dramatically increased to 2 million people leaving farms each year. Beginning of the 1920's New York's population was 5.6 million people.]]> 2017-11-03 13:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203291307 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203293677 The government added an amendment to ban the manufacture, distribution and transport of alcohol]]> 2017-11-03 14:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203293677 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203731935 A religious movement that said that all of the stories in the Bible are literally true. This mainly happened in the Protestant churches during the 1920's. It was very controversial and caused many issues.]]> 2017-11-06 04:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203731935 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203732280 March 1925: The government passed a law that made it illegal to teach the idea of evolution. A teacher named  John T. Scopes read a passage from Civic Biology to his class and was arrested soon after. This trial became a national sensation. Ultimately Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.]]> 2017-11-06 04:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203732280 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203732795 Girls defied their stereotypes of that century and wore tight fitting hats, waist less dresses that were much shorter than previous centuries, skin toned stockings, pumps, and long necklaces of pearls. They also cut their hair into short bobs and dyed it black.]]> 2017-11-06 04:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203732795 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733101 In the 1920's double standards became very prominent. This is when a set of rules that give greater sexual freedom to men than to women and required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. This caused many women to be pulled between old and new standards]]> 2017-11-06 04:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733101 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733321 The changing world of the 1920's gave many women new opportunities in and out of the home. Many jobs opened for typists, filing clerks, office machine operators, secretaries and much more. Women also started to do jobs normally suited for men such as pilots, taxi drivers and oil well drillers.]]> 2017-11-06 04:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733321 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733845 1 million students attended high school in 1914 and by 1926 that number rose to 4 million. Public schools faced many challenges as well. The main one being teaching immigrant families. It became very difficult to teach them English but teachers overcame this and created literate American immigrants. Taxes also increased to support the schools.]]> 2017-11-06 04:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203733845 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734183 Newspapers became more popular though the 20's. By the end of the 20's more than 10 American magazines and newspapers had a circulation of more than 2 million]]> 2017-11-06 04:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734183 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734551 When the radio was invented, families of the 1920's gathered around every night to listen to the news broadcasts.]]> 2017-11-06 04:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734551 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734755 Post WWI, Jim Crow Laws still made life difficult for African Americans. The phrase that was widely used around this time was "Black Is Beautiful"]]> 2017-11-06 04:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203734755 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203735022 "The Great Migration" was when African Americans moved to the north to find better opportunities for themselves and their families. By the end of the 20's more than 5.2 of the 12 million African Americans of the US moved to the north. But sadly most of these people weren't welcome in the predominately white cities.]]> 2017-11-06 04:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203735022 boothhaley07 https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203735557 Organizations were created to help protect and enforce the rights of African Americans. These included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led by James Weldon Johnson fought for legislation to protect African American rights and this group represented the militant voices of colored people, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) led by Marcus Garvey believed that colored people should create a separate society for themselves they were the radical group and several more were also created. ]]> 2017-11-06 04:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/boothhaley07/l6gbdb39naiz/wish/203735557