HIST 2057 Chapter : March 11 Notes
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Alice paul founded the national woman"s party. Those picketing outside the white house would get arrested. Image 26: alice paul"s silent sentinels at the white house: 19th amendment (1920) Gave women the right to vote but had some limitations. Part of the rise of mass culture in the 1920"s. Short hair and short skirts, drinking (even though during prohibition), smoking in public. First iq tests are introduced by the army with regards to the soldiers who would enter the war. Madison grant wrote the passing of the great race . Says immigrants are changing society by lowering birth rates and taking jobs. Whites are being elbowed away and not doing anything about it. The idea of bringing immigrants together and differences would melt away and would blend together. Immigrants working in his factory would have to attend this school: randolph bourne (cosmopolitanism) Argued that immigrants had to bring and keep their own culture because that"s what made america great.
