Study Guide.

        I. The Scopes Trial- An American legal case in 1925 where John Scopes wass judged for teaching evolution, and it is when it became against the law to teach it.people were very religious at this point in history.
      II. Prohibition-It was pushed by women's organizations due to:
                       A. Domestic Violance
                       B. Child Abuse
           Henry Ford was for Prohibition since his workers were not as productive as they could be when they were hungover. 18th amendment is for prohibition but it did not banned the possesion, consumption or tranportantion of. The IRS was the one in charge of enforcion it but did not work out very well.   
     III. Flappers- Were the exotic women who had short hair, drank, smoked, were v-necks, and constantly showerd her legs. This women were viewed as sinner in society's eyes because at this point in history people were very religious in the United States.

      IV.Economic Issues- We had a lot of economic issuas as a country when we brought the soldiers back because they had no jobs, they were in dept, and many of them had physical and psycological damages.

      V.Dust Bowls- drout, over farming, and mechanization were all factors of the dust bowls.

     VI.Agriculture Issues- Farmers over farmed their land without letting it heal because they were getting a lot of money. Eventually the land became unfarmable anymore.

       VII.Immigration Policies- Asians were banned intirely due to the invasion of the japanese and china, the ethnic groups were limited to 2%.

       VIII.Nativism- People who considered only native born americans good enough to be in this country and work for the country.

        IX.Significan literary work- How the other half lives, Jungle, and Unsafe and only Spread.

         X.The Great Migration- It was the first time African Americans moved collectively to the North.

         XI.Sacco and Venzetti- Were two italian boys who were anarchist in the 1920's.

        XII.Labor Issues- With the nativist around and the soldiers just coming back there were not a lot of jobs available. Also a lot of men were coming to the alcohol and could not do their jobs correctly.

       XIII. The red Scare-Bolshevic Revolution, Lennin fakes over power in Russia, The USSR is formed, Americans were scared of unamerican behavior, especially if you were foreign.

        XIV.Scheneck v. US- it is declared that the government can violate our rights if they are trying to protect you.

What I Learned...

 When we did the presentation I learned a lot from my group. We searched Bonnie and Clyde. Personally I think it is really astonoshing that she was clyde's partner. After she had already gone through what it was to have a loved one in jail she still made the decesion of being with him. She met him through he husband who was in jail. You would think that once she knew what it was like to be convicted by the law she would stop but that did not stop her. She was an Original Gangster even though she was a girl. At this time inlife this was a big deal, not as common as it is today. At the end they died together when they got cought by the police. They lived a very complicated life together.

Is Violence The Right Answer?

I think these people have to be treated like the criminals they are. They should be given a reward for revealing where the they other site is.Maybe if they were told that theeir punishment would be less they would confess. People like them do not look out for anyone else but themselves it is what it is. I believe that violence would probably not be the answer to anything unless they are really talking. However they should be given a certain amount of time before officer got to the violence or messing with their head.

Declaration Of War..

I think that the United States was taking Germany as a joke. it sounds like they were just saying yeah  we are dclaring war but we are not scared. We know we are the best and to us you nothing but a joke. It was such a joke to the US that they did not even bother to write a formal writting paper  declaring war to Germany. It looks like a flying or an icon you would see on facebook or photobucket. I also notice that their ink was colored yet they did not use the United States colors. In the other hand i am not really sure on how germany took it. They sent the same type of writting back to the US as their respond to the declaration of war. I think Germany was alomost at the same place as the US when it came to thinking they were the best.

Mi Vida Loca.

Mi Vida Loca, a movie based on a book, called always running, about the gang life in Huntington Park, California, is the one movie’s that remind me the most of imperialism. These gangs are meant to control territory and power; it is what the gang life is all about.  The fight and argue about who owns what side of town, over names, and who has the most power around. In Los Angeles, California this is a very common factor among teenagers. School are filled with Gangs and Gang member who try to get teenagers to get involved in their gang activities because they know it will take them a lot more to come out the gang life then it would take an adult.

Also, in Mi Vida Loca, The girls try to fight like the boys do, they try to fight battles that they should not try to fight for the boys, even though they come from the same culture in this case the same gang, they have different duties then the one they try to fight.

                This movie reminds me of imperialism because just like the U.S fights to earn power, the gang members fight other gangs which in the case of this country it would be other countries. As hard as it seems, yeah sometimes the gang members’ fight to help other people like the U.S helped Cuba become an independent country from Spain. The gang members also fight to help other people, or as they see it to help the people of their own kind, which in the case of this movies it would be the Mexicans. They protect themselves, and they help other Mexican’s too.

                In the other hand, while the U.S government fights for the best of our country, and it looks good, whereas when the police sees the gang members fight they say it is illegal and they should not do it but at the end of the day it is the example we show our kids. They youngsters are the ones who lern the most about the gang life, especially when they are born in the gang. One you are born in a gang you have no way out of it or you will go through many horrible situations. When you are bron in imperiaiism you can not get out of it unless your teacher gets you out but in this case not even the parents can get out out. It is important for them to always keep up with the enemies.

                In another point of view, we can also say that the gang members and imperialism are similar because just the way when imperialism becomes in charge of different countries that still stand on their own the gang members can help you out but if they like you and only you they will not let people from the other cliques inside their town and if they do decide to come just like that something really bad can happen to them.

                The gang members take pride and power very serious and if they do not get respected they will be very offended and it would take So much for them to be nice again. They would not trust you or the gang you are a head of.

How would You Feel If You Were Uncommunicated.?

If I lived in this time period and I had to go to the War without being able to cmmunicate with my family i would be debastated. Family to me has always been everything. I am very close to them and to think that i have to be away and I would not be able to just send a text, an inbox on facebook, or even an email, would hurt a lot. Just to imagine that I would have have to wait many days, weeks and sometimes even months would fill me with frestruation. The soldier's family probably felt scared for the soldiers life, scared to not be able to know if the soldier was still alive by the time they had recieved the letter from them. I know I would have gone crazy if I couldn't communicate with my family.

What Were You Thinking? What Were THEY Thinking?

At this time in their life the pilots were probably scared. The pilots had to think about saving their lives no matter who they were killing. It could have been a friend or a family member of the pilot that just happened to be in the opposite team. Also, all they had to think was about saving their lives before anything else, shoot to kill, or they would die, they had to think about their family whom they left behind, whom they loved and whom the pilots knew loved them very much. If I had  been there I would just think about my family and how much they would suffer if anything ever happened to me.