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1929 Wall Street Stock crash

Posted on June 28, 2010 by slemonde

The stock market crash in 1929 made many people lose all their money overnight. Many people committed a suicide aftermath. Therefore, the Fox Movietone News made movies advising people to do not put their money on stocks. However, it wouldn’t last long until people started investing their money on stocks again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvkmcxLGAvk&feature=related

Posted in 1920-1932, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized | Tagged 1929, market, stock, Wall Street | 1 Comment

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Posted on June 28, 2010 by fcoulibaly

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbcmil&fileName=scrpbk1/rbcmilscrpbk1.db&recNum=55&itemLink=D%3Frbcmillerbib%3A1%3A.%2Ftemp%2F%7Eammem_t1s0%3A%3A

The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels to win the vote for women. This scrapbooks are proves that not only were treated unfairly ways back, but also they begun to fight their rights for ever.

This books are important because it shows that civil right movements did not start just yesterday or out of blue, but in 1800’s and till we still have some activists that are fighting for equal wages between men and women or equal job opportunities for everyone.

Posted in 1900-1916, June 29 assignment | Tagged civil activies, equal rights | Comments Off

The Bonus Army March 1932

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Bogdan

This picture was taken by Veteran Army Signal Corps photographer Theodor Horydczak in June 1932. Picture location – American Treasures of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm203.html

According to Wikipedia.org, this event was a gathering of approximately 43,000 marchers comprised of 17,000 World War I veterans and their families who protested in Washington, D.C., in summer of 1932. The war veterans demanded their cash bonuses which were granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. Each of these certificates was issued only to qualified soldiers and had a face value equal to the soldier’s promised payment, plus compound interest. The issue was that the certificates, just like bonds, matured twenty years from the date of original issuance. In other words, the veterans could not receive their money until 1945.

Most of the Bonus Army camped in a Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats, a muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington. In July, 1932, President Hoover ordered the Army to forcibly remove the veterans. They were forced back to their camp sites. During this time hundreds of veterans were injured and several killed.

Posted in 1920-1932, Economic History, June 28 assignment, Political history, Social History | Tagged Bonus Army, cash bonus, President Hoover, veterans | 1 Comment

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Alfaro

Between 1836 and 1913, the United States banking system was not regulated by a central system. During this period, the United States economy experienced few financial panics. That happened because banks usually lent more money than they had in their reserves to cover sudden massive withdrawals. The signing of the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913 was an important step taken by President Woodrow Wilson to make the financial system more stable. However, few years later, despite the creation of the Federal Reserve System, the United States experienced the Great Depression after the crash of the stock market in 1929.

http://www.llsdc.org/attachments/files/105/FRA-LH-PL63-43.pdf

Posted in 1900-1916, Economic History, June 29 assignment | Tagged Federal Reserve Act, Woodrow Wilson | 6 Comments

Transition from agricultural to industrial economy

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Wu

The photo above is of Air Mail Service Mechanics. Taken in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924. This is just one of the many new occupations created with new innovative breakthroughs in the early 1900s such as automobiles and airplanes. It transformed America from an agricultural economy to a technologically driven industrial powerhouse it is today.

Posted in 1920-1932, June 28 assignment | 2 Comments

Jazz Age 1920 to 1929

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Jing

This song is from YouTube. It was introduced in the first recording of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, which is generally considered as one of the bands who had their first Jazz recording in 1917. Their recordings sparked the Jazz Age of the United States.

The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World War I, through the roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression. Jazz was first performed in New Orleans dating from the early 1910s. In 1920s Following World War I, African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States. With them, they brought their Jazz culture to big cities like New York and Chicago. During this period of time, Jazz was popular music performance in bars, dancing halls and night clubs. Jazz was also changed men’s and women’s fashion style as well.

Posted in 1916-1920, 1920-1932, Cultural History, June 28 assignment | Tagged African American, employment, first jazz recording, Great depression, Jazz, jazz age, music, New Orleans, World War I | Comments Off

George Cohan’s “Over There”

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Ashraf Talukder

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Over There is a patriotic song during World War I written by George M. Cohan, and it was widely performed by various artists from its publication in 1917. Notable early recordings include versions by Nora Bayes, Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, initiated by Charles King. Cohan later recalled that the words and music to the song came to him while traveling by train from New Rochelle to New York shortly after the U.S. had declared war against Germany in April 1917 (firstworldwar.com). This song was a nationwide hit in the months immediately following America’s enthusiastic entry into the war. On June 29, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt awarded Cohan the Congressional Gold Medal for this and other songs.

Listen to The Song (Credit:Vintage Audio, firstworldwar.com)

Enrico Caruso – Over There by Enrico Caruso, Nora Bayes – Over There by Nora Bayes, Billy Murray – Over There by Billy Murray

Your Song–Our Song–Our Boys' Song! Over There.

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy’s in line.

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who’s a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.

Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev’rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray’r,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back till it’s over
Over there.

Posted in 1916-1920, Cultural History, June 28 assignment | Tagged 1917, George Cohan, Over There, World War I, WWI | Comments Off

Espionage Act of 1917 and anti-war women protest

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Sofiya

On June 15, 1917, shortly after the US entry into World War I, Congress passed Espionage Act of 1917. According to the Espionage Act any interference with the operation or success of the armed forces of US and support of America’s enemies during wartime was punishable by death or by imprisonment up to 30 years, as well as, disloyalty, mutiny, interferes with military recruitment and refusal of military duty was punishable by imprisonment up to 20 years. In 1918 the Espionage Act was extended by set of amendments, which prohibited many forms of speech, such as any disloyal or abusive language against US government, US flag or US Army and Navy. Next year The US Supreme Court unanimously supported the Act stating that it did not violate the free speech rights of those convicted under its provisions. This Act leads to the several arrests and prosecutions of activist women, such as, Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes-socialist activist, feminist, birth control advocate and writer, or anti-war activist Kate Richards O’Hare during WWI years. But their protests and criticism of the war threatened the national power of the patriotic mothers. They were the very first anti-war protesters, whose ideas succeeded only in mid 70’s with the end of Vietnam War.

Posted in 1916-1920, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Women protest

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Ndiaga

A photograph of fourteen women suffragists in overcoat on pickets line they are holding suffrage banners in front of the white house. One banner reads: “Mr. the President how long women must wait for liberty.”. This event occurred in 1917 with the White house visible in the background.

Posted in 1916-1920, 2001-present, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized | Tagged Dick Cheney, supreme court segregation on public transportation unconstitutional, women protest | 2 Comments

Modern American History