HIST 106 2nd Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Protecting Big Business II Battle Of Standards And The 96 Election Outline of Current Lecture I Urban Amusement Urban Moral Control II Battling Alcohol and Drugs III Immigration Restriction and Eugenics Current Lecture Urban Amusement Urban Moral Control o Amusement Parks Offered families escape from tenements Female workers had a rare opportunities to meet young men socialize with other women Coney Island attracted several million visitors Where immigrants learned how to e American o America On The Move Streetcar rides and window shopping electricity at least they could look to poor to buy Wright Bros airplane and Ford s Model T o Music Scene Blues reached a broader public Ragtime o o o o Irving Berlin Alexander s Ragtime Man The Silver Screen Movies Movies migrated to 5 cent calls called Nickelodeons The Sneeze The Kiss Stories like the The Great Train Ride Charlie Chapman 60 short comedies 1914 1917 Youths escaped was from parental supervision Stodgy Reactions Crusaders and opportunists Womens Christian Temperance union reformers also targeted Prostitution Prostitution was tempting because they made no money in regular business The Social Evil American Social Hygiene Association sponsored by John D Rockefeller Jr Researched STD s Paid for vice investigation Drafted anti prostitution laws A white slave is what they were called Cant transport a girl across state line Reformer shut down the redlight districts of Chicago and New Orleans o Causation and Consequence Racism Anti Immigrant Prejudice Victorian Morals all fueled anti prostitution efforts AA Boxer Jack Johnson was convicted for crossing state lines with a woman for immoral purposes Battling Alcohol and Drugs o Native Sanctimony o The First War on drugs Physicians medicine peddlers and legit drug companies all prescribed and sold opium and heroin Cocaine was an ingredient in Coca Cola Congress passed Harrison Act heroin cocaine and opium Racist undertones Chinese opium Dens Drug crazed negros would imperil white womanhood Immigration Restriction and Eugenics o Immigrants passed through Ellis Island o Southern and Eastern Europe o 200 000 Japs o 40 000 Chinese o Mexicans seeking railroad work o White hypocrites Dismay over immigrant description Immigrant Restriction league in 1894 Boston American Federation of Labor feared job replacement Advocates tried to document their case Proved that new immigrants innate degeneration Proof 1 prominent psychologist claimed that they were stupid o Erecting Hurdles and Bureaucratic Hoops Literacy Test 1913 1915 1896 Excluded immigrants over the age of 16 who could not read English or their native language 1917 they overrode president s veto and passed them anyway o Hitler s American Forefathers Helped fueled the Eugenics movements Some US eugenists believed that society could be improved by protecting America from inferior races The Passing of the Great Race 1968 madison Grant liberal progressive Used fake data to denounce everyone in particular Jews Grant called for Racial segregation immigrant restriction involuntary sterilization or worthless races Many states legalized sterilizing criminals Criminals sex offenders retards Buck vs Bell upheld sterilizations
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