HIST 2401 Lecture Notes - Progressive Era, Harold Ross, Immigration Act Of 1924
29 Aug 2014
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5 the great depression and roosevelt"s new deal liberalism monday, Since the 1900s, there had been many attempts to change the legal status of woman. Woman in the progressive era was focused on the change of woman"s rights. The new woman in the 1920s was more about trying to acquire behaviour equality with men. Dorothy parker was a theatre critique for vogue and vanity fair. Harold ross and jane grant (part of the lucy stone. Society) was the owner of the new yorker. She believed that women could not voluntarily choose motherhood. Eugenics became tied up in the fight for birth control. Hepburn helped fund sanger"s research in birth control. Prohibition produced a decline in alcohol related diseases. By 1929, a report came out saying that it wasn"t working anymore. The scopes monkey trial was used to showcase the urban differences in the belief in the bible. Nativism was a kind of anti-immigrant to emphasise old.
