Harlem Renaissance
1) What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?
It was a literary and an artistic movement that the African Americans started that celebrates their culture
2) Who were some of the important figures (and what they were famous for) during the Harlem Renaissance?
Thurgood Marshall -first African American supreme court Justice
Zora Neale Hurston - actress and writer
Louis Armstrong - famous trumpet jazz player
Duke Ellington - jazz pianist & greatest composer in history
Betsy Smith - female blue singer And the highest paid African American singer
Langston Huges - poet and starts writing about the African American experience in his view. His
poems was known internationally .
3) In the Poem, Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, what is the message (make sure you included the "why")?
The message is that life is not easy. That there are times that will make you turn into the dark. But never give up even if it is hard . Because life is never easy and life goes on .
4) Please read in your text book about Prohibition pages 725-730. Please write a "Political", "Social", and "Economic" summary and upload it to your website.
Political: Congress later passed the Volstead Act after the Eighteenth Amendment to enforce prohibition. Legislators were hypocritical about drinking. Prohibitionist also forgot how deep drinking is within the american roots
Social: The 'Old' Americans were used to drinking beer and it was a past time for them. They were used to all the drinking and hated the prohibition of it and the jazz age was starting to bloom and it supported and liked the idea of alcohol.
Economical: Many 'wets' began to use bribery as a way to get what they want. Gangsters began to have profitable businesses off of prohibition. Organized crime also overtook the economy and in order to protect their stores, merchants had to pay 'protection money'.
5) Please read in your text book about the Scopes Monkey Trial ages 730-732. Please write a "Political", "Social", and "Economic" summary and upload it to your website.
Political: The devoted religious people, called the Fundamentalists, said that Darwin's Evolution was destroying their faith and their belief in God and believing in the Bible. The fight was between theology and biology. Eventually Scopes, a science teacher who taught Darwin's theory was fined $100.
Social: Education became stricter. Students had to stay in school until they were 18 or had to graduate high school. Professor Dewey was the one who set forth the principles of learning that formed the foundation of education
Economical: The Rockefeller Foundation advanced in the public health program. It wiped out Hookworm and gave better nutrition and health care to babies. The people now are living longer lives so they can do more work and they are now receiving formal education so they get better jobs.
1) What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?
It was a literary and an artistic movement that the African Americans started that celebrates their culture
2) Who were some of the important figures (and what they were famous for) during the Harlem Renaissance?
Thurgood Marshall -first African American supreme court Justice
Zora Neale Hurston - actress and writer
Louis Armstrong - famous trumpet jazz player
Duke Ellington - jazz pianist & greatest composer in history
Betsy Smith - female blue singer And the highest paid African American singer
Langston Huges - poet and starts writing about the African American experience in his view. His
poems was known internationally .
3) In the Poem, Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, what is the message (make sure you included the "why")?
The message is that life is not easy. That there are times that will make you turn into the dark. But never give up even if it is hard . Because life is never easy and life goes on .
4) Please read in your text book about Prohibition pages 725-730. Please write a "Political", "Social", and "Economic" summary and upload it to your website.
Political: Congress later passed the Volstead Act after the Eighteenth Amendment to enforce prohibition. Legislators were hypocritical about drinking. Prohibitionist also forgot how deep drinking is within the american roots
Social: The 'Old' Americans were used to drinking beer and it was a past time for them. They were used to all the drinking and hated the prohibition of it and the jazz age was starting to bloom and it supported and liked the idea of alcohol.
Economical: Many 'wets' began to use bribery as a way to get what they want. Gangsters began to have profitable businesses off of prohibition. Organized crime also overtook the economy and in order to protect their stores, merchants had to pay 'protection money'.
5) Please read in your text book about the Scopes Monkey Trial ages 730-732. Please write a "Political", "Social", and "Economic" summary and upload it to your website.
Political: The devoted religious people, called the Fundamentalists, said that Darwin's Evolution was destroying their faith and their belief in God and believing in the Bible. The fight was between theology and biology. Eventually Scopes, a science teacher who taught Darwin's theory was fined $100.
Social: Education became stricter. Students had to stay in school until they were 18 or had to graduate high school. Professor Dewey was the one who set forth the principles of learning that formed the foundation of education
Economical: The Rockefeller Foundation advanced in the public health program. It wiped out Hookworm and gave better nutrition and health care to babies. The people now are living longer lives so they can do more work and they are now receiving formal education so they get better jobs.