Bassanio said...
I dont know if this is how you do it D: but um.... The red scare relates to this play because after world war 1 many Americans were afraid that communism would be spread to America. During this fear of communism there was a massive boost to immigration to the United States. This relates because most of us in the play are immigrants so we may be segregated!
January 9, 2011 10:49 AM
Cody DeFever said...
Ku Klux Klan and the populist movement is the same thing in that he said that everybody was trying to dep the white people in charge of all of the big companies and the they knew that if the colored people got in charge of anything, the white people would get out of all the jobs that they have and they don't want to lose them and so they make the clans so that way they could fight it. They also feared but that they represented a national concern of the loss of American values.
The International Jew is a collection of propaganda against Jews in an effort to shame them into hiding their religion. It was released in 4 volumes: The World's Foremost Problem, Jewish Activities in the United States, Jewish Influences in American Life, and Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States. The Jewish world was outraged and despite thousands of complaints Ford kept attaking Jews into the late '20. Finally on July 16, 1927 Ford issued a mass apology letter to all Jews, but some believe that Ford did not write or sign the apology and therefore made it void.
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The Prohibition was a period of nearly fourteen years in the U.S. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed.
ReplyDeleteBy 1916, over half of the U.S. states already had statutes that prohibited alcohol. In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol, was ratified. It went into effect on January 16, 1920.
While it was the 18th Amendment that established Prohibition, it was the Volstead Act (passed on October 28, 1919) that clarified the law.
There were, however, several loopholes for people to legally drink during Prohibition. For instance, the 18th Amendment did not mention the actual drinking of liquor. Since Prohibition went into effect a full year after the 18th Amendment's ratification, many people bought cases of then-legal alcohol and stored them for personal use.