Transcript Crusade and Social Order

Crusade and Social
Order
By: Sarah Quintanilla, Jamie Jo Porter, and
James Riggleman
The Crusade for Social Reform
Temperance
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Abstinence from alcoholic drink.
Alcohol affected the working
class.
Spawned violence and
occasionally murder.
Woman hoped the temperance
movement would help better their
lives.
WCTU
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Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
Frances Willard
Est. 1873
formed to support
temperance
Women’s crusades
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Immigration
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Mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe
WWI Refugees
Effort to assimilate
Effort to limit
1891 immigration act
Eugenics movement
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Not to breed “new humans”
Eugenicists forced the
sterilization of the mentally
retarded, criminals, and
others
Didn’t support immigration
Nativism
Movement based on hostility toward
immigrants.
Know Nothing Party
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Actual printing of the 18th amendment
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale,
or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to
enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an
amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided
in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to
the states by the Congress.
Eighteenth Amendment
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Passed 1917, ratified 1919, effective 1920
Did not prevent significantly consumption
Increased Crime
Poisoned Ethyl Alcohol.10^4 deaths
Gone by 1933
The Marijuana Debate
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Affecting the working class
social divide
Immigration Today
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creates political competition
over population
land of the free