USA Nation Of Contrasts Events

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Cari Whiteley

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  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal
    Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior, leased government oil reserves (for navy) and received over $400,000 in bribes, mostly from Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny. The bribes were exposed in April 1922, and in 1927 Fall was found guilty of conspiracy and accepting bribes, fined $100,000 and sent to prison. Sinclair was also sent to prison.
  • Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
    Granted American Citizenship to Native Americans, but they were expected to Americanise
  • Eugenics Project

    • Management of Native Americans by means of social planning, education and reproductive control
  • Boarding Schools

    • Thousands of Native American children were placed in Boarding schools and forced to Americanise
  • Reservations

    • Native Americans were placed on small, useless pieces of land (against nomadic lifestyle)
  • Butler Act

    Made it illegal to teach evolution (1924)
  • The Monkey Trial

    John Scopes, a biology teacher, deliberately taught evolution. He was arrested and put on trial in 1925 (July). Scopes wanted to show the unfairness of the Butler act. The trial was reported worldwide and showed how fundamentalists were trying to abolish freedom of thought. Scopes lost the trial and was fined $100. After the trial, there was a nationwide debate between science and religion.
  • Literacy test (1917)

    All immigrants had to pass a literacy test in English
  • 3% quota based on the total population of each ethnic group in 1910

    Only 357,000 immigrants per year
  • Emergency Quota Act (1921)

    National Origins Act (1924): Cut quota to 2% based on 1890 Census. It allowed more people from northern Europe
  • Immigration Act (1929)

    150,000 immigrants per year. Northern & Western Europeans were allocated 85% of places. No Asians.
  • Popularity of cinema

    • People had more leisure time, more disposable income, cheap ticket prices (Nickelodeon), form of escapism, improved transport, large range of films, attraction of movie stars (sex appeal), novelty of new technology, new talkies (The Jazz Singer)