HIST 2057 Lecture : Test 3 Lecture 12
Document Summary
Women and the war: women"s job opportunity sky rocketed, nurses, sold bond. 19th amendment (1920: gave women the right to vote but gave limitations to voting rights. Flapper (clara bow, the it girl : changing nature on women"s social expectations rise of mass culture. Image portrayed in hollywood: clara bow, silent film star it girl was most famous film, smoke in pubic, drink (during prohibition, pop culture, voting, work women experiencing more freedom. Nativism: americans assume immigrants represent distinct ethnic groups, classes of people, evolutionary biology, social darwinism creates claim of racialism, allowed evaluation of ethnic class, races. Immigrants changing us society by lowering birth rates, taking jobs: natives aiding their extermination by looking abroad and letting immigrants adopt us culture. Eugenics ( 100 percent americanism : theory of improving the genetic quality of the population, repopulate the favored races.
