1921

Zone,” people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants. 1921: nearly 24 million immigrants arrived during what is known…

Lenin’s first purge cut the party’s membership of 700,000 by more than a quarter in 1921. By 1924, party membership was cut in half. The party purges would further increase the power of the party dictatorship, and by eliminating dissenters of the party, there was hardly any opposition to Lenin’s power. Similarly, Stalin used party purges…

The book I read was called Black Birds in the Sky. The book is about the Tulsa Race massacre or the Black Wall Street massacre that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31 to June 1, 1921. The book mostly talks about events that led up to the massacre, such as racial discrimination between whites and blacks and even indians. It also talks about how major black events and people get covered up more than the white events do while teaching history in school. This also helps show that the blacks are…

Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to Susan and George Coleman. At the time of her birth, her parents were already married for seventeen years and had nine children; Bessie was the tenth child of thirteen. Her father was of African American and Cherokee Indian decent and her mother was of African American decent which made it difficult for her from the start. Her family settled down in Waxahachie, Texas as sharecroppers. Her older brothers and sisters…

This movement is the extended version of the Khilafat Movement . This kind of episode took place in 1921. Moplah’s had been the descendents of the Arab-speaking Muslims and were living there even before the arrival of Muhammad Bin Qasim in Asia. Within May 1921, they revolted towards Hindu landlords as their remedy has been very crazy together. The matter was not the non secular. The uprising has been against the injustice, against…

sterilization law was passed that allowed a person to be sterilized if they were involved in pedophilia with a female under age ten, or were guilty of rape. Under this law, sterilization was rare. However, this changed with a new and more general law passed in 1921. This law allowed sterilizations to be performed on people who were considered “feeble minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sexual perverts.” Under this law, people from state institutions were chosen…

episodes in the American history that highlights the doctrines of the socioeconomic systems. The events of the civil violence and disobedience depict the exploitation and capitalism manifested in the contemporary society. Battle of the Blair Mountain in 1921 is one of the gruesome mining wars in the history. The government deployed military forces to calm the uprisings. The Kantian tenet on civil disobedience links the moral authority, state laws, and rationality. The essay will explore the…

of resistance to British rule, the Irish Republican Army has emerged as the embodiment of that movement for generations. A major part of the IRA’s success in this matter is the emphasis on, and claim to, legitimacy. Before the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, Irish republicans had declared Ireland to be a free republic and had established a resistance government, including the election of an Irish parliament called the Second Dail. The IRA was organized in a response to the treaty and reaffirmed its…

The U.S government exclusionary immigration policy marginalized immigrants. For example, the immigration act of 1907. This act limited the number of Japanese immigrants coming into the U.S and banded the feeble-minded from entering the U.S(law). During this Act to enter the U.S, you must take a literacy test that was in English. Also, they prevented people with a physical or mental defect from entering because they would need help from the government to get better and they didn't want people who…

P.M of Canada after he took over Borden’s mandate from 1920-1921. Arthur didn’t make many changes as a Prime Minster. His most memorable accomplishments were rather achieved as a cabinet minister than as the Prime Minister of Canada. He was the Prime Minister Borden’s right hand in and after the World War I. While still Prime Minister he also served as secretary of State for External Affairs. He lost his position to Mackenzie King in 1921. In 1932 Prime Minister Bennett appointed Meighen to the…