1924

Butte in November of 1924, becoming the first female governor of Texas and the second female governor in the United States. Miriam is known for the enactment of prohibiting the Klu Klux Klan from wearing their masks in public, which was later overturned by the courts. Many…

owned and founded the American Tobacco Company as well as Duke Energy. He and his wife had spent summers in Newport previously as renters. When Rough Point became available, he purchased it for $375,000. From 1922 to 1924, the house was renovated and substantially enlarged. In 1924,…

relationship with his friends as a gangs or herds of men because there were few Filipino women who immigrated to the U.S before the 1924 immigration act made it virtually impossible for females to get work in on the 50 person quote a year ear man. The federal government wanted Filipino men to immigrate over and become migrant farm workers picking vegetable. The 1924 immigration Act helped spur the influx of Filipino labor to Hawaii which lead to the increase in California. The Act virtually…

While there has always been substantial immigration from countries around the world, Mexican immigrants dominate the statistics. Between 1820 and 1930, Mexicans constituted over half of the documented immigrations. Like many immigrants before them and certainly after them, they experienced discrimination in the United States. Stereotyping and bouts of xenophobia sparked deadly riots against the most prominent minority group in the United States. Early experiences for foreign-born Mexican…

brought on by the condition in which the economy is facing. Wage inequality occurred prominently for the minority races. There was increase admission of Mexican immigrants during this period and policies set in place. The National Origins Act of 1924 or the Quota Act, is one of the many policies implemented by the U.S. This policy set quotas on the number of immigrants coming into the US, determined by their country of origin. The quotas were also determined by the composition of the US…

Chancellor of Germany, but he only served for a couple of months. Gustav Stresemann was the German Chancellor for only a short-term and was a leading member of every government from 1923-1929. Gustav Stresemann accomplished a significant amount between 1924-1929 such as the Dawes plan or loans from the U.S. and the Young Plan, which means, Germany had 58 or 59 years to pay reparations. He was more skillful than Fridrich Ebert. He was also a right wing support so in turn he had wider support.…

The movie is based on the true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Englishman Harold Abrahams, who is Jewish, overcomes anti-Semitism and class prejudice in order to compete against the "Flying Scotsman", Eric Liddell, in the 100 me Opening in 1919 England, Harold Abrahams enters Cambridge University, where he meets with anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan theatre club. He becomes the first person to ever…

immigrants with the Gentlemen’s Agreement, the United States saw conserving homogeneity more important that trying to fix their relationship. It created more tension between the United States and Japan because to some extent passing the Immigration Act of 1924 would be a violation to their agreement, even though Japan protested their discontent the law still was set in place. Previous laws had mentioned that those with Asian linage were unable to become naturalized or essentially have the same…

Buck v. Bell upheld the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924, which allowed the sterilization of women and men in America (2). Eugenic sterilization was used to target people who held undesirable traits that should be weeded out of society. Those traits were based on their mental capacity, and their race. The sterilization first began in 1907 the time where Lovercraft was alive. Thousands of people were forcefully sterilized, some not even knowing they were being sterilized. Women would go to the…

Jacques Copeau was born in a well off middle class family in Paris, France. He had always had a love for poetry, theatre, and literature and became acquaintances with some of the theater people and playwrights of his time. He became known as an advocate for theater reform after he was impatient with commercial theater, and was a director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Copeau’s first stage play was Brouillard du Matin at the Nouveau Theater in France. Copeau’s Career Timeline In 1909, he became…