1. Chapter 12 section 3: The Business of America is Business 1-3, 1 and 2
January 10th, 2012
Chapter 12 section 3: The Business of America is Business 1-3, 1 and 2
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*Describe the impact of women’s suffrage on American politics in the 1920s
*Explain why many African Americans migrated to the North during the 1920s
*Describe the Harlem Renaissance
*Describe the candidates and issues of the presidential election of 1928
Go over 15.1 quiz
Notes: 15.2-Social and Political Developments
15.2 quiz
Homework: Finish work listed above

2. Keep Packet: Americans struggle with postwar issues
Packet: From war to peace
15.1 quiz
Movie notes
Current calendar
Test: WWI, Progressivism, Gilded Age, Imperialism, Chapter 10

3. Social and Political Developments
Name: _________________

4. New Developments Women wanted to get more involved in politics
Blacks looked to have greater opportunity
Economy is showing signs of improvement
Voters are cheering for the Republican party

5. Women’s rights…wah wah
Got the right to vote…now what?
Hardly voted
Did not change politics (just voted similar to men)
Did not become a major player in politics
Only held minor posts and rarely nominated for office

6. Women’s Rights…on the positive side
Polling places moved out of saloons
Women began to serve on juries
Sheppard-Towner Act: federal money for prenatal and infant health care
Cable Act: allowed women who married foreigners to keep their US citizenship
FIRST STEP: future gains in jobs, rights and politics

7. What are two shortcomings of women’s suffrage?
*did not have huge turn-out
*continued to decline
*did not change politics-voted like men
*minor posts in the party
2) What are two gains of women’s suffrage?
*polling stations moved into more public places
*served on juries
*sought more money for prenatal and infant
health

8. African Americans and the Great Migration
What brought blacks north?
1) Factories expanded their production (new workers)
2) White factory workers left their jobs
500,000 blacks migrated north during this time!
Look at page 453, which four states lost the most of their black population?

9. (North): Not the promise land
Women worked as maids (not the opportunities they thought)
Continued to live in poverty
Factory workers faced hostility from whites
Thought they threatened their jobs and wages
Continued racial discrimination
Serious race riots continued

10. Harlem Renaissance Huge population influx in Harlem: Where is Harlem?
14,000 in 1914 to 200,000 in 1930
Where is Harlem?
Why Harlem? Came to hear Jazz, a musical form from the South-brought to the North
Musicians brought people there
Literacy life: Harlem Renaissance
Poems and novels
In your book, find two famous singers and two famous authors at this time

11. Garvey Movement
Started the UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association
Build up African Americans’ self respect and racial pride
Urged blacks to return to Africa-and invested their money in the steamship line: Black Star…would take others to Africa
Jailed on fraud and UNIA collapsed

12. Republican Dominance Why? Economy began to rebound
Industrial productivity soared
Unemployment went down
Strikes dropped
1920: Warren G. Harding vp Calvin Coolidge
Harding’s slogan: Return to normalcy
Harding’s administration was plagued with many scandals: one was stealing government funds, others took payment bribes
Teapot Dome Scandal: secretary of interior sold government land in return for payments and “loans”

13. New President
Harding died on August 2, 1923…who become president next?
Scandals did not follow him to office!
Won his own election in 1924
Known for his support for the interests of American business
Example: Raised tariffs
Slogan: The chief business of the American people is business”

14. New President Did not run for office in 1928
Republican party nominated Herbert Hoover
Held posts in both Harding and Coolidge administration
Voters continued to trust the Republican Party

15. Presidents WWI ends 1920 election: 1924 election: 1928 election:
Party:
Slogan:
1924 election:
1928 election: