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The document lists the escalation of German attacks on ships containing citizens, ending with the Lusitania. It also airs the grievances the U.S. has against Germany, like their previous warnings from the Falaba, Cushing, and Gulflight. The significance is the end of the Suusex Pledge and the beginning of anti-German sentiments for World War I.
The document expresses at its culmination that despite the vow for peace they had before and German’s reasonability in the past, the loss of life prompted by their attacks cannot be excused. -Tommy E. Summary: This primary source is a letter from a black man looking for better work and living conditions up in Chicagot. He is looking for something better than what Texas has to offer for him and his family. He is a hard worker and obviously educated enough to write a solid letter to a man working at the Chicago Defender.
Significance: The depression is beginigng to hit as well as violent racial acts occuring in which this man is scared for himself as well as for his family. Everything looks better up north from jobs to nicer people. He wants to get away and find work in which there was more work in industries as opposed to the fields in Texas due to the Dust Bowl. -Natalie M. |
W.E. B. Du Bois published this article in the Crisis and his main purpose was to respond to the recent race riots in Chicago. Du Bois supports the blacks taking a stand, as the Negro’s have been subjugated for "300 years too long". He makes it apparent that he believes that blacks should defend their rights, but he is clear on defining a line between self defense and pointless violence or vengeance. Du Bois states that people, white and black, can live “humbly and peacefully” together.
This is significant because the article was published for the entire American public to see; whites could then change their opinion because they were exposed to an alternate point of view and the Negro’s stand became more valid. Du Bois was able to shed light on the blacks predicament and therefore he helped the black Cause-- not with violence, but with words. -Kelsey O. |
Trigger Words
Ku Klux Klan: Southerners who objected to congressional Reconstruction policies founded several secret terrorist societies, the Ku Klux Klan was one of these. It was organized in Tennessee in 1866 and became a vigilante group dedicated to driving blacks out of politics by using intimidation and violence.
Volstead Act: This 1920 law defined the liquor forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment and gave enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
Schechter v. U.S.: In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled in "Schechter v. United States" (also known as the "sick chicken case") that the NIRA was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the NIRA gave too much legislative power to the executive branch and code authorities.
nativist: Nativists were those Americans who feared that large-scale immigration might alter the basic political and social character of the United States.
Dollar Diplomacy: a foreign policy associated with the presidency of William Taft. It reasoned that American economic penetration would bring stability and safety to underdeveloped nations (particularly in Latin America and Asia), and bring profit and power to the United States without the need to for actual U.S. control of the region.
Harlem Renaissance:Harlem, New York, in the 1920s was the largest black city in the world and the cultural capital of African Americans. A multitude of talented black artists and writers found an audience, both black and white, for their artistic and literary expressions of black pride and other themes.
Palmer Raids: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, concerned that the United States was in danger of a communist takeover in 1919, ordered a series of roundups and raids on suspected communists. The raids, a product of the postwar Red Scare, clearly violated the civil liberties of many innocent people.
Article 10- Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides the right to freedom of expression, subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and "necessary in a democratic society". This right includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to receive and impart information and ideas.
"Birth of a Nation"- a 1915 silent drama film. The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men (played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan (whose original founding is dramatized) as a heroic force.
Volstead Act: This 1920 law defined the liquor forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment and gave enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
Schechter v. U.S.: In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled in "Schechter v. United States" (also known as the "sick chicken case") that the NIRA was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the NIRA gave too much legislative power to the executive branch and code authorities.
nativist: Nativists were those Americans who feared that large-scale immigration might alter the basic political and social character of the United States.
Dollar Diplomacy: a foreign policy associated with the presidency of William Taft. It reasoned that American economic penetration would bring stability and safety to underdeveloped nations (particularly in Latin America and Asia), and bring profit and power to the United States without the need to for actual U.S. control of the region.
Harlem Renaissance:Harlem, New York, in the 1920s was the largest black city in the world and the cultural capital of African Americans. A multitude of talented black artists and writers found an audience, both black and white, for their artistic and literary expressions of black pride and other themes.
Palmer Raids: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, concerned that the United States was in danger of a communist takeover in 1919, ordered a series of roundups and raids on suspected communists. The raids, a product of the postwar Red Scare, clearly violated the civil liberties of many innocent people.
Article 10- Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides the right to freedom of expression, subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and "necessary in a democratic society". This right includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to receive and impart information and ideas.
"Birth of a Nation"- a 1915 silent drama film. The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men (played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan (whose original founding is dramatized) as a heroic force.