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Crusade and Social Order

Crusade and Social Order. By: Sarah Quintanilla, Jamie Jo Porter, and James Riggleman. The Crusade for Social Reform . Temperance . Abstinence from alcoholic drink. Alcohol affected the working class. Spawned violence and occasionally murder.

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Crusade and Social Order

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  1. Crusade and Social Order By: Sarah Quintanilla, Jamie Jo Porter, and James Riggleman

  2. The Crusade for Social Reform

  3. Temperance • Abstinence from alcoholic drink. • Alcohol affected the working class. • Spawned violence and occasionally murder. • Woman hoped the temperance movement would help better their lives.

  4. WCTU • Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Frances Willard • Est. 1873 • formed to support temperance • Women’s crusades http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRy4k4mVv0Gz8Iov-UyqaNV6rNlxcBHsW6272EaoGT0N-99wYBa

  5. Immigration • Mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe • WWI Refugees • Effort to assimilate • Effort to limit • 1891 immigration act

  6. Eugenics movement • Not to breed “new humans” • Eugenicists forced the sterilization of the mentally retarded, criminals, and others • Didn’t support immigration

  7. Nativism • Movement based on hostility toward immigrants. • Know Nothing Party http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwcGZLIbN3Bln-ha22tzE49GtGHtVdG0wt8xzKFDVonKBQRQHZOA

  8. Actual printing of the 18th amendment • Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. • Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. • Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.

  9. Eighteenth Amendment • Passed 1917, ratified 1919, effective 1920 • Did not prevent significantly consumption • Increased Crime • Poisoned Ethyl Alcohol.10^4 deaths • Gone by 1933

  10. The Marijuana Debate • Affecting the working class • social divide

  11. Immigration Today • creates political competition • over population • land of the free

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