Transcript Unit 4 Lesson 2 RA

UNIT 4 LESSON 2
REMEDIATION NOTES:
LIFESTYLE OF THE 1920’S
AND 1930’S
Let’s Review
• There were vast changes with technology during the
1920’s and 1930’s.
• These changes impacted people, sports, inventions and
music
• Immigrants and blacks faced prejudice and discrimination
every day.
• The boom of technology seem to affect every aspect of
people’s lives.
New Inventions
Camera
Factories of Mass
Production
Car
New
Inventions
Record Player
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Entertainment
• The 1920’s was known as the Jazz Age, because
of the popular music called Jazz
• Sports became a fun event for people to watch
• Baseball was the most popular sport in the United
States
• Radios became a way for families to gather
together and listen to stories, advertisements and
the news!
• Some other fun activities were flag pole sitting
and marathon dancing.
Flapper Girls
• Flapper girls annoyed the older generation by
smoking in public, wearing short skirts, short hair
styles, and using lots of makeup.
• They were called flappers because like birds
people considered them to be flapping their
“wings” to get everyone’s attention!
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Discrimination in the 1920’s and 1930’s
Immigrants and Blacks faced
discrimination on a daily basis
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Let’s Review these Concepts
Discrimination
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are when negative
behaviors are
directed at a
specific group of
people. There was
a great deal of
discrimination
during the 1920s1930s.
Prejudice
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are negative
learned attitudes
toward a group of
people, was
widespread
Racism
•
is discrimination at a •
specific racial group,
also divided people
during the 1920s and
1930s
Xenophobia
or the
unreasonable fear,
distrust, or hatred
of a certain group
of people, during
this era.
Further info about Discrimination
• During the 1920’s racial tensions in American society
reached a boiling point.
• Many Americans were xenophobic towards anyone they
thought were outsiders
• Immigrants, Catholics, Blacks and Jews suffered the
most at the hands of people concerned with preserving
the long White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (W.A.S.P.) belief
system.
• Remember many of America’s founding fathers (Thomas
Jefferson, John Hancock, George Washington) were
W.A.S.P.’s
What were WASP Values
• White: identified the color of a person’s
skin
• Anglo: people whose family originally
immigrated from England or Ireland
• Saxon: people whose family originally
immigrated from Germany
• Protestant: a religion whose beliefs come
Christianity
from
What was Nativism?
• Nativism was the belief that “native born Americans” were
superior to immigrants
• Nativists believed that immigrants could never be fully
loyal to the USA.
• Because of this belief system many immigrants faced
prejudicial policies and reform
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Immigrants and Quotas: What it Meant
Limits on Newcomers
• In 1924, the first laws were passed that set quotas or
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limits on how many people from specific countries would
be admitted to the United States.
The limits were based on the number of people from that
country already living in the United States.
Many Americans were openly hostile to all ethnic groups.
Several business owners were discriminatory, and refused
to give immigrants work unless it was hard labor.
Prejudice and racism seemed like accepted practices for
most Americans toward minority groups.
The Impact of Discrimination, Prejudice and
Racism on the Black Population
• Blacks were at the bottom of the wage scale
• Those in the black populations were usually the last hired
and the first fired and performed menial-labor jobs.
• In the South, Blacks lacked economic independence,
since they largely worked on white-owned land.
• Sadly, Blacks were considered second class citizens and
remained at the bottom of the social scale in the United
States during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
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Movement of Blacks from
the South to North
• Many black people migrated (moved) from
the south to the north, to find work.
• White workers became resentful because
they felt like they were competing for jobs
with the southern blacks.
• This competition for jobs between
northern whites and southern blacks led
to more discrimination and prejudice.
Segregation: The Result of Discrimination,
Prejudice and Racism
• Segregation was the rule or practice of separating people of different
races, classes, or ethnic groups.
• Segregation forced blacks to have different schools, housing, and
public facilities.
• Blacks were separated from whites in most public areas including
trains, parks and even cemeteries.
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The Black Population: The Impact of
Discrimination, Prejudice and Racism
Let’s Review What We Have Learned
• Discrimination seemed to be an acceptable
practice in 1920’s and 1930’s
• Minorities faced prejudice, discrimination and
racism in social, cultural, political, and economic
situations during this era.
• These types of behaviors left the country
divided in its beliefs about minority groups.
• Xenophobia was a common ear during this time
and many people in America suffered because
of it.