UNRAVEL - 1908 – 1928
BATTLE MAP of the WWI / 2nd KKK / PROHIBITION generation
TIMELINE AND COMMENTARIES @ $3.00
- FORMAT - PDF
- A TIMELINE OF 12 PAGES
- 9 COMMENTARIES.
THIS GENERATION...
“They were the early scientists and
technologists. Came to indulge home and hearth children of the post-Civil War
era. They came as labor anarchists, campus rioters, and ambitious first
graduates of black and women’s colleges. Their young adults pursued rural
populism, settlement house work, missionary crusades, muckraking journalism and
women’s suffrage.”[1]
COMMENTARIES INCLUDE
1908 – Ford
Model T – “But
it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to
own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in
God's great open spaces.”
1910 – Industrial Agriculture –
In 1909, the Haber-Bosch method
to synthesize ammonium nitrate was
first demonstrated. NPK fertilizers stimulated the first concerns about
industrial agriculture, due to concerns that they came with serious side
effects such as soil
compaction, soil erosion,
and declines in overall soil fertility,
along with health concerns about toxic chemicals entering the food supply.[9]
1915 Second KKK - The second KKK preached
"One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of
politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition.
Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church,
using anti-Catholicism
and nativism.[3]
Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants; it opposed Jews,
blacks, Catholics, and newly arriving Southern European immigrants such as Italians.[32]
1919 – “Thirsty First”
Prohibition – “The Wartime
Prohibition Act took effect June 30, 1919, with July 1, 1919 becoming known as
the "Thirsty-First".[13][14]”
1920s – Walter Lipmann
Writing During WWI – “We are not used to a complicated civilization, we
don't know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have
disappeared.”
1920s – Gene Autrey “THE
COWBOY CODE” – “Autrey’s radio program reached millions and
implanted the American code of conduct called “fair play.” This is the kind of
thing Aristotle would have suggested to young Athenian “cowboys” with his
admonition, to “Be Good, Do Good.”
1920 – Women’s Right To Vote
In The U.S. – “After a
hard-fought series of votes in the U.S. Congress and in state legislatures,
the Nineteenth
Amendment became part of the
U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920. It states, "The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
or by any State on account of sex."
1924 - Thomas Midgley, Jr. –
The Scientist Who Gave Us “SILENT SPRING” And
GLOBAL WARMING – “Environmental
historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more
impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's
history",[19] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed
"an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny".[20]”
1925 – The Scopes Trial – “The trial
publicized the The Wartime Prohibition Act took effect June 30, 1919, with July
1, 1919 becoming known as the "Thirsty-First".[13][14] Fundamentalist–Modernist
Controversy, which set Modernists, who said
evolution was not inconsistent with religion,[4] against Fundamentalists, who said the
word of God as revealed in the Bible took
priority over all human knowledge.”
1925 – “William Jennings Bryant: An Obituary” by H.L. Mencken – (As only Menken could.) “It
has been marked by historians that the late William Jennings Bryan’s last
secular act on this earth was to catch flies? A curious detail and not without
sardonic overtones.”
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