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Concerns Emerge :Concerns Emerge
Nativism :Nativism Favors natural born or 1st wave immigrants
1880s desire to restrict immigration picks up
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Teach only American culture in schools
Wanted to establish literacy tests for entry: targeted 2nd wave of immigrants
Literacy test bills, vetoed in 1896, 1913, 1915; passed in 1917
National Origins Act, 1924
Prohibitionists :Prohibitionists Goal: ban alcohol
Women lead the charge
Why?
Groups emerge to work for the ban
Prohibition Party
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Succeed in 1919
18th Amendment
Slide 8:Carry Nation
Purity Crusaders :Purity Crusaders Big cities had visible vice problems:
Gambling
Prostitution
Drugs
Rid communities of activities that harm family values
Blue Laws emerge
Comstock Law barred obscene material
What was obscene at the turn of the century?