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Category Archives: 1900-1916
Chinese Exclusion Act
Photocredit: University of California at Berkeley
This political cartoon from the late 1800s depicts the seething animosity towards Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. White immigrants and white Americans alike joined in accusations of the Chinese for stealing jobs and lowering wages. They rallied to drive the Chinese out of their neighborhoods and forced them into concentrated slums all over the country and called it “Chinatown”. This cartoon depicts a Chinese person with sub-human characteristics, as with many cartoons during that era. It was a systematic attempt to dehumanize the Chinese population as to make whites feel more superior. My film will highlights the discrimination and struggles of Chinese immigrants during that period.
Posted in 1865-1877, 1880-1890, 1890-1900, 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Cultural History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged chinese, chinese exclusion act, chinese immigration
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Congressmen Dickstein – American fascism fighter.
400 rabbis column marching in Washington to draw attention to the plight of Holocaust victims in 1943. The video of the marching rabbis will be mixed with the footage of documentary chronicles of the children in concentrate camps like Auschwitz. The melodies of Jewish lullaby will play on a background. Beautiful and calm melody will only increase and emphasize the horror of the tragedy that was happening all over the Europe. Rabbis approaching the steps of the U.S. Capitol and meeting with Senator William Warren Barbour. The voice of the main hero – Congressmen Dickstein on a background saying: « Senator William Warren Barbour was one of a handful of politicians who proposed legislation that would have allowed as many as 100,000 victims of the Holocaust to emigrate temporarrily to the United States, but unfortunately he died six weeks later after introdusing the bill and it wasn’t passed. I introdused the parallel bill in the House of Representatives, which also failed to pass. During the Holocaust, fewer than 30,000 Jews a year reached the Unted States, and some were turned away due to immigration policies. The US didn’t change its immigration policies until 1948. Because of that so many many people died, that could be saved ……»
Evolution of Freedom [1865-1945]
The Evolution of Freedom begins in 1787
One of the iconic songs based of the Woodstock concerts was “Freedom” by Richie Havens. This video highlights a freedom revolution that occurs in 1969 but is based off a culmination of events before it. My documentary shows how freedom was subjective to the American populations and had different meaning evolve for it throughout the years. Foner does make a mention of this as the chapters progress, or in our case as we looked back at history. The documentary will begin and end with this song.
Four Gold Pens
The title of my documentary refers to the signing of the Federal Reserve Act by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He used four gold pens to sign the document as reported by the New York Times. My documentary consists of real footage and recreated scenes accompanied with great music like the song “Money Makes the World go Round” from the movie Cabaret and “Money” by Pink Floyd. It covers relevant economic history beginning with the Panic of 1907 and ending with the establishment of the FDIC Act in 1933.
The image above shows J. P. Morgan (middle) and his daughter arriving in Washington DC. for the Pujo Hearings. The purpose of the hearings was to investigate the “Money Trust” or the connections between Wall Street bankers who had and still have powerful control over the Nation’s finances. Scenes from the hearings play an important part in my documentary since they show a strong opposition against the financial elite at that time. The hearings took place from May 1912 to January 1913.
Posted in 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged FDIC, Federal Reserve Act, J. P. Morgan, Money Trust, Panic of 1907, Wall Street
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THE LIFE OF DENIA SOTO
I thought to bring out what a Hispanic family could have gone through during the beginning of the 19th century. I feel that not only where black and whites affected by the changes that World War I brought about but it involved more then our history books tells us. The way people lived, how they were treated and the way they are remembered. History to me is not a turning point, it’s documentation of all the mistakes that we as a people have made. We have moved forward, but we still are taking baby steps.
My screenplay is completely fiction, the only accounts are those of actual world events such as World War I and the Trangle Waist Fire of 1911. Both events tie into the misery of an old woman struggle to bring up her granddaughter in world that hold no meaning for women as of yet. But the struggle goes on.QUE BONITA BANDERA
Posted in 1900-1916, 1916-1920, Final Exam Component
Tagged FICTION, HISPANICS, HISTORICAL EVENTS
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Henry Ford
During the early 1900s, electricity and more advanced machinery made factories nearly twice as efficient. Perhaps the greatest increase in efficiency came when Henry Ford perfected the assembly-line production method, which enabled factories to churn out large quantities of a variety of new technological wonders, such as radios, telephones, refrigerators, washing machines, and cars. The increasing availability of such consumer goods pushed modernization forward, and the U.S. economy began to shift away from heavy industry toward the production of these commodities.
The automobile quickly became the symbol of the new America. Although Americans did not invent the car, they certainly perfected it. Much of the credit for this feat went to Ford and his assembly-line method, which transformed the car from a luxury item into a necessity for modern living. A big turning point in America. Can you imagine today being without a car?
This would be in the middle of my movie with triumphful music palying in the background because this was another step America took towards advancement in the industrial world.
Posted in 1900-1916, Economic History, Social History
Tagged Economy, Henry Ford, Industrialization
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Screenplay: The Great American Journey of Marcus Washington
This is a story about a young boy named Marcus who grows up in northern Mississippi during the late 1800s. Marcus represents the voice of Southern working-class blacks, who despite the promises made by government and civil activists, realizes that everyday is a struggle for survival for him and his family. In living a life of near poverty, he is unable to develop into a functioning member of society and instead lives a very simple working life.
The latter part of the movie is centered around the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois where Marcus witnesses first-hand the hardships of life in the meatpacking district.
Posted in 1900-1916
Tagged Chicago, Illinois, muckracking, slavery, stockyards
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Henry Ford Introduced the Model T, 1909 – My Screenplay
The introduction of Model T by Henry Ford was a turning point that put American to start using popular motor vehicles. Henry’s innovations, including assembly line production and paying his workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car provided a ready made market for his car to be sold into.
The company was a world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included all the elements needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line.
The economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called Fordism.
Posted in 1900-1916, 1916-1920, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged Ford, Henry Ford, Mode T
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Gold Standard Act of 1900
Until the signing of the Gold St
andard Act in 1900, gold and silver were used to establish monetary standards all over the world. The value of each was not well established and to make monetary matters worse, the Civil War was very distractive on the economy and paper money had no silver or gold backing. The Gold Standard Act was created to take control of monetary policy. The sandard it set 1 oz. of troy gold was $20.67. The act further stated the value of a dollar bill (paper money) in gold and began the issuance of silver certificates to be used in place of silver coin. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 established gold as the more valuable metal.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 29 assignment
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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
In 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. It required inspection of meat and drugs such as alcohol, cocaine and heorine in the United States. Before this Act people didn’t know what was in their meat or the conditions in which it was made in. Drugs were not labeled correctly and contained misleading information. These problems were exposed from the help of Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins. Resulting from this act, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was formed and the sale of patent medicines containing opiates decreased by 33%.
The video is from youtube.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 29 assignment
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