How Did Coming Of The Harlem Renaissance Represent A Social And Cultural Revolution

To what extent did the coming of the Harlem Renaissance represent a social and Cultural Revolution in the United States? Did all except this renaissance? #2

The extent of the Harlem Renaissance was represented socially and with Cultural Revolution in the United States by jazz and blues were expressions of the African Americans. African Americans’ feelings were expressed through music, such as jazz, paintings, writings, and more. They way that the African Americans told their stories through the stuff they did spoke to other African Americans. In the 1920s the word “Negro” entered the American vocabulary. No longer would Africans silently endure the old ways of discrimination. In the work of the artists and writers explored the pains and joys

World War I increased support for temperance. It seemed unpatriotic to use corn, wheat, and barley to make alcohol when soldiers overseas needed bread. The 18th amendment, banned manufacture, distribution, and the sale of alcohol in the United States. Even though alcohol was banned Americans were willing to drink liquor illegally with gave rise to the illegal production and sale of liquor. The Prohibition is also remembered as a period of when gangsters were known by competition and violent turf battles between criminal gangs. When smuggling started, not a lot of people knew about it. Smuggling became riskier and more expensive when the U.S began halting and searching ships. Among the ships were millions of bottles of whiskey that were sold across pharmacy counters. Americans used modified alcohol, which had been mixed with noxious chemicals to change it and made it unhealthy for drinking. Millions and millions of alcohol products were illegally diverted. Some were adding noxious chemicals, mixed with tap water and perhaps a dash of real liquor for flavor. The distribution of alcohol was more complex than other types of criminal activity, and gangs eventually emerged and figure out that they could control and entire local part of bootlegging operations. Eventually sooner or later gangs in different cities began to interact with each other and they extended their methods

How did this impact immigration?
Nativists viewed new immigrants as racially inferior and feared that the superior stock would be outnumbered and outvoted. New immigrants came from southern and Eastern Europe versus earlier immigrants that came from northern Europe. Many were Catholic, Jewish and eastern orthodox. Immigrants were willing to work for lower wages creating job competition, natives didn’t like that. One of the ways that immigrants received training in Americanization through the consumer society, particularly through efforts that encouraged foreigners to own, furnish, and maintain and inhabit homes in keeping with American ideas cleanliness, decoration, nutrition, recreation, and so forth. Nativism got its name from Native American parties of the 1840s and 1850s. Native although does not mean “home grown” or American Indian. The Nativist came out in 1854 when they formed the ‘American Party’ which was especially captive to the immigration of Irish Catholics and campaigned for laws to make longer wait time between immigration and naturalization. In 1917-1918 a wave of nativists led to the abolishment of German cultural activities in the United States. There was not a lot violence, but many places and streets had to change their names. A favorite plan was the test based on reading to exclude workers who could not read or write their own foreign language. Some passed literacy tests,