What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Do now activity:

B-A C-B

Can you think of 3 exam questions which could be asked about this strand?

List 5 factors which contribute to the main political and social challenges facing America

Summary Section Aa) Immigration b) Political Extremism c) Religious Intoleranced) Racial Intolerance

• Growing hostility to ‘new immigrants’

• The Red Scare • The Sacco Vanzetti Case• The Monkey Trial• Jim Crow Laws• Ku Klux Klan

Essay Questions:1. Explain why people wanted to emigrate to America2. Was the fear of communism the most important

reason for the restrictions on immigration in the 1920s?

3. Were conditions bad for all black Americans during the 1920s?

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Some to be able to analyse several reasons to create a judgement on political and social challenges facing AmericaMost to be able to explain several reasons why there were so many political and social challenges facing AmericaAll to be able to describe a few key features of the main political and social challenges facing America

Learning Objectives:

Starter:

Do you have any useful hints or tips to suggest how you could go about answering this question or indeed any type of question asking you to describe something…?

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

We are going to play a game in order to revise our key words so that your answer is detailed.

Listen carefully to the rules

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Try to include specific factual details such as names, dates and events

Aim to write at least two full paragraphs

Examination Guidance:Include relevant information only

Make a list of points you intend to mention

Place your points in chronological order

Start your answer using the words of the question

Use specific details such as names, events, dates and places

Write at least two full-length paragraphs

Read your card. Write a detailed description underneath the word to show

your understanding

Can you find someone whose card has a similar theme to yours? a) Immigration b) Political Extremism c) Religious Intoleranced) Racial Intolerance

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Work together as a team and create a PEE paragraph which aims to answer the question. By joining all the paragraphs together we should have the perfect essay!

P• One of the main political and social challenges facing

America was immigration

E

• During the late 19th and early 20th centuries about 40 million people emigrated to the USA. The majority of these came from Southern and Eastern Europe and became known as ‘new immigrants’. This distinguished them from the ‘old immigrants’ who arrived from western and northern Europe in the early 19th century.

E• By the 1920s there was not only open hostility towards

these immigrants but also a growing xenophobia in the USA

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Work together as a team and create a PEE paragraph which aims to answer the question. By joining all the paragraphs together we should have the perfect essay!

P• One of the main political and social challenges facing

America was … [insert your word here]

E

• Write as much detail about your word as possible. This should be the largest part

• For extra marks you should be able to use other key vocab that may have been discussed in the lesson but not necessarily on your card.

E • Say why your word caused political and/or social challenges in America during the 1920s

What were the main political and social challenges facing

America?Complete your green pen check

Green Pen Check 1: Technical Accuracy

I have read my work aloud to ensure that it is written clearly.

I have divided my work into sentences separated by full stops and have used capital letters correctly.

I have started a new paragraph when the time, place or subject changes.

I have not missed out any words.

I have used a dictionary to check that my spelling is accurate.

I have put speech marks around the words that people say.

I have used tenses correctly

I have asked my critical friend to double check my work.

Check your writing is logically organised and appropriately detailed.

Read each sentence carefully, looking for technical errors.

Tips: start with the final sentence and work your

way back to the start, so you really do read each sentence separately and aren’t tempted to jump forward in the text; it’s also worth remembering that your last sentence is the last thing the examiner reads before you get your mark. Make it count.

read your work ‘aloud’ to identify incomplete sentences or missing punctuation.

Make a list of the sort of mistakes you know you often make and look just for one of those each time you read the sentence.

What were the main political and social challenges facing America?

Some to be able to analyse several reasons to create a judgement on political and social challenges facing AmericaMost to be able to explain several reasons why there were so many political and social challenges facing AmericaAll to be able to describe a few key features of the main political and social challenges facing America

Learning Objectives:

• Did you meet your learning objectives?• Can you give yourself a level for today?• Use the level ladder in your books…

How do you feel about your learning today?

Homework:

Was the 1920s a decade of organised crime and corruption?Due: 07/10/12

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What am I?

• I come from the Greek ξένος meaning stranger

• It can make people stereotype others• Some fear they are losing their identify• Others desire to eliminate the presence

of others• Some definitions suggest this arises

from irrationality or lack of reason• What phobia am I talking about • With the initial X?

Answer - XENOPHOBIA

What am I?

• I am usually found in a Geography lesson• I involve a force that drives people to do

something• I describe migration• Several of these can contribute to the

decision to migrate• I usually drive people away• Poverty, Disease and intolerance are

examples of me• What am I with the initials PF?

Answer – PUSH FACTOR

What am I?

• I am usually found in a Geography lesson• I involve a force that drives people to do

something• I describe migration• Several of these can contribute to the

decision to migrate• I usually draw people to a country• Land, Opportunity and Education are

examples of me• What am I with the initials PF?

Answer PULL FACTOR

What am I?

• I am looked down upon• I am part of a city• I am an overcrowded urban area• I am predominantly occupied by a

particular ethnic group• I am associated with people living below

the poverty line• Crime rates here are typically higher than

in other parts of the city• What am I with the initial G?

Answer – GHETTO

What am I?

• I am a concept in foreign affairs• To do with immigration• I am a political Act • There are political cartoons about me• In the 19th and 20th Centuries 40 million

came to the USA because of me • Old immigrants wanted restrictions

placed on me• I allow people to arrive into the USA from

any background• What am I with the initials ODP?

• Answer OPEN DOOR POLICY

What am I?

• I am an informal term• Often derogatory or disparaging• I represent a closed group of high status

Americans mostly of English Protestant ancestry

• The term does not describe every protestant of English background but a small restricted group whose family have wealth and influence

• It is usually used by Jews, Catholics and other outsiders to describe me.

• What am I with the initial W?

• Answer WASP

What am I?

• I am a revolutionary movement• I come from a theory by Karl Marx• I am the desire to create a classless,

moneyless and stateless social order• Americans thought that all immigrants

believed in me• I am the reason behind the Red Scare• Immigration was restricted because of

me• What am I with the initial C?

Answer - COMMUNISM

What am I?

• I am a key term to do with immigration• I have been used since 1907• I am a gradual process• I refer to the process where by

immigrants become used to customs and values of the US

• This term helps immigrants become more like Americans and lose characteristics that old immigrants would see as undesirable

• What am I with the initial A?

Answer - AMERICANISATION

What am I?

• I am a series of government acts• I am a response to public disapproval

towards the open door policy• I charge $8• I include a reading test• A quota system• And prefer people from nations similar to

old immigrants• I forbid Asian immigration• What am I with the initials IR?

Answer IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS

What am I?

• I am a phrase• I refer to the idea that capitalists have

about individuals• To do with initiative and enterprise• It’s the idea that people should be able to

help themselves out• To not reply on government benefits• The government does not need to

interfere in peoples social and economic lives

• What am I with the initials RI?

Answer – RUGGED INDIVIDUALSIM

What am I?

• I am an economic system• Based on private ownership of the means

of production and the creation of goods or services for profit

• Other elements include competitive markets, and the accumulation of wealth

• I am often seen as the opposite to communism

• What am I with the initials C?

• Answer CAPITALISM

What am I?

• I describe industrial action• Whereby the majority of the work force

in a city, country or region fight for a political goal

• It includes work stoppage• Usually this is because of employee

grievances such as pay, workload or conditions

• What am I with the initials GS?

• Answer GENERAL STRIKE

What am I?

• I am a political philosophy• It holds the state (government) to be

unnecessary• I explain the idea that authority should be

opposed• Some followers of me are communists• Some followers of mine were involved in

the bombing of the attorney generals home• In 191 a bomb planted in a Church in

Milwaukee killed 10 people• In May, letter bombs were posted to 36

well known Americans• I sparked the Red Scare • What am I with the initial A

• Answer – ANARCHISM

Who am I?

• I am a man• I held high political office in the 1920s• I organised raids to attack communists, Jews,

Catholics, black people and trade unionists• As an Attorney General I was in charge of the

department of justice• My home was bombed by anarchists• I was filled with revenge• I deported Russian immigrants• Who am I with the initial MP

Answer – MITCHELL PALMER

What am I?

• I describe a period in time • I am associated with the Red Scare• The press whipped up public feeling• The police attacked communist parades• Many innocent people were arrested• This attacks were illegal but not stopped• They were authorised by the attorney

general• This was out of revenge for the bombing of

his home• What am I with the initials PR?

Answer THE PALMER RAIDS

Who are we?

• We are well known anarchists• We were discriminated against for our

nationalist • We were put on trial for armed robbery• We are the most famous case of the red

scare in the 1920s• Some say we were set up• The Judge was determined to find us guilty• We were given the death penalty in 1927• We were pardoned in 1970• We were an Italian duo• Who are we with the initials NS and BV?

Answer – SACCO AND VANZETTI

What am I?

• I am a movement within a faith• Followers of me uphold literal translations of

a book• Often evangelical• Followers react to certain modern aspects of

society e.g. gambling• In the 1920s a law forbade the teaching of

evolution in schools because of us• Our main followers are in the Bible Belt• We are Protestants• Who are we with the initials RF?

• Answer RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM

Where am I?

• I am a part of America• I am an informal term• I am a region in the south eastern and central

areas of the USA• The majority of people who live here are

socially conservative• And they are evangelical protestants• Church attendance here is higher than the

rest of the USA• Where am I with the initials BB?

• Answer BIBLE BELT

What am I?

• I am a religious belief• In the Bible Belt students are taught to

believe in me• Followers of me are anti-evolutionists• Followers of me are religious

fundamentalists• I refer to the Bible story of Genesis• I was taught in Protestant schools during

the 1920s• What am I with the initial C?

Answer - CREATIONISM

What am I?

• I am a theory• I am closely followed by those living in urban

areas of America• I am disliked by religious fundamentalists• The state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act

against me in 1924• I was not allowed to be taught in schools• Scientists rebelled and there was a trial in

1925 nicknamed the Monkey Trial• The theory was posed by Charles Darwin• What am I with the initial E

Answer – EVOLUTION

What am I?

• I am a famous event• I took place in July 1925• I was a disaster for the image of religious

fundamentalists• I was a great debate between science and

religion • I describe legal proceedings against the

teaching of evolution• Those who opposed evolution were mocked

by the media• The creationists were seen as trying to stifle

freedom of thought• I was a trial of John Scopes a biology teacher

who taught evolution which was banned• What am I with the initials MT?

Answer THE MONKEY TRIAL

What am I?

• I am a series of local and state edicts• We were named after a fictional character

white people created to make fun of Black people and the way they spoke

• We were enacted between 1876 and 1965. • We mandated segregation of all public

facilities for African Americans• Examples included the segregation of

hospitals, schools, swimming pool's and hospitals.

• What am I with the initials JCL?

Answer – JIM CROW LAWS

What am I?

• I describe a period in American history• Black Americans were discriminated against• By the time slavery was ended in the 1860s

there were more Blacks than Whites living in the Southern States.

• White- controlled state governments fearing the power of the Black Americans introduced laws to control their freedom

• These laws were known as the Jim Crow Laws• What am I with the initial S?

• Answer SEGREGATION

Where am I?

• I am an area of land• I am managed by a part of American society

who are discriminated against• There are about 310 of these in the USA• These places are unevenly distributed across

America• Laws within vary from the rest of the USA• I was invented to concentrate people of this

type into a restricted area• Where am I with the initial R?

• Answer RESERVATIONS

SMART ASS

WHAT IS A POGROM?

This is usually describing atrocities and massacres which took place against Jews in Russia which forced many to emigrate to the USA

Who am I?

• I am a political organisation• I was set up by soldiers in the 1860s• Banned as a terrorist group• It made a resurgence after the 1915 film birth

of a nation • Our members were supremacists • Based in the southern states• Our leader was known as the Grand High

Wizard• Its aim was a campaign of terror• Catholics and Jews were targeted as well as

Black people• Our members where white robes• Lynching's and tarring and featherings are

our signature violence• What am I with the initials KKK?

Answer – The Ku Klux Klan

What am I?

• I am a type of capital punishment• I am unlawful• I am carried out by vigilante groups – these

are people who take the law into their own hands

• The victim usually is sat on a horse• Then has a noose placed around his neck• The horse is then driven away• What am I with the initial L?

Answer LYNCHINGS

Smart Ass

WHO WAS MARCUS GARVEY?

He said that Black people should go back to Africa. He was the first to say Black is beautiful

Smart Ass

WHO WAS W E B DUBOIS?

He formed the NAACP. They held meetings and went on marches. They tried to use the law.

What am I?

• I describe a period of time between 1916-20• In total 1 million black Americans were

affected• Faced by racism and chronic poverty,

thousands of Black Americans decided to leave

• Hoping for a better life and employment in the cities

• Southern Blacks moved north• What am I with the initials GM?

• Answer THE GREAT MIGRATION

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• Cards for assessment

Immigration Political Extremism

Religious Intolerance Racial Intolerance

WASP Communism The Monkey Trial Jim Crow Laws

Immigration Restrictions Anarchists Religious

Fundamentalism Segregation

Immigration Political Extremism

Religious Intolerance Racial Intolerance

xenophobia General Strike The Bible belt Lynching

Push and pull factors The Palmer Raids Creationism Ku Klux Klan