WWI Posters

Propaganda is like advertisements it either like has a team or someones face or their website or something, it tries to get you to remember something

Prop Define

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.


Posters

In the first poster the word YOU is big bold and colorful, this poster tries to make you feel guilty and alone, on one side there is just one person and they don't look very happy, but on the other side, they don't look happy, but there are a lot of them, it makes you feel like you have a duty and you aren't doing it if you don't enlist

In the next poster it compares even the most measly of jobs, such as screwing bolts in, seem heroic and important, like plunging a bayonet into the heart of the enemy, it makes you want to do your job well because it is important

In the last poster it is trying to get people to make socks for the army, this one isn't very effective I don't think but it does make you feel as if you are directly helping the soldiers and America win the war

Most of these poster are targeted at just your average Joe, just doing his thing and bam, look at that poster, well now I gotta enlist, or do my job well, or knit some socks because America needs me.

Everyone uses advertising and propaganda, why can't the government?

Well not many people just straight up want to go out and die in vain, but if you make it about your homeland, America the beautiful well then there's something worth fighting for and that's what the government wanted to do, they wanted to convince people that they should do something to help their country.

Multiple Choice

1) Porgressivism began as a(n)...

a) movement within communities, cities, and states
b) riot that lead to a movement
c) African-American movement that soon spread to everyone
d) amendment passed by the government
e) way to move illegal goods through cities

2) Among the first people to articulate the new spirit of reform were...

a) Poor Jewish-American immigrants
b) crusading journalists
c) African-Americans
d) senators
e) The top 1% of the nation

3) The prominence of women in reform movements is...

a) very low
b) one of the most striking features of progressivism
c) one of the most resented features of progressivism
d) basically the entirety of progressivism
e) the most important aspect of progressivism

Living Essay about Progressivism

Today we did this rad exercise where we were a paragraph, and it was cool because we combined all of our research into one

Conclusion+Thesis:

One of the major aspects of the progressive era was how the government began to make regulations and laws to make a better quality of life. Going from something as big as to prohibition all the way to something as small as the radio the government provided safety and better expectations for all. From the crimes created by gangs to the Black Sox Scandal to the inventions of radios, people wanted there to be a higher standards for society and for this to happen the government had to be involved by creating laws/regulations to insure that the standard was reached.  

Progressivism: Perspectives in Print

Two Factions in Fracas was a newspaper article in the Aberdeen Daily News that started about Frank Herbert, who was believed to be killed by gang members. It goes on when members of a gang wait outside the police station, armed, ready to take down some arrested rival leaders. It’s crazy to think how devoted they are to their gangs, but it is basically their family, they were all mostly poor Jewish-Americans.

In the next section, two famous gangsters line up, Al Capone and Tony Lombardo, against their rival gang, the North Side Gang. The lead detective told a group of about 100 officers to kill any known gang leaders, on sight. O’Conner, the lead detective, said “beat them down if the murmured and kill them without mercy if they showed armed resistance.” The Chicago police department even had cars with machine guns, to match the power of the mafias.

Just on a side note, when we did research on the 1880s-1920s in the past I did it on organized crime and found that Monk Eastman, leader of the Eastman Gang, served in WWI starting at 42, he came back to the states in 1919 and had his citizenship renewed for his honorable service in the war. From reading this newspaper I didn’t find a ton that surprised me because I had basically already researched this before, but I did get to look more into Al Capone and Luciano’s time which I have interest in.

All of this new violence and such really started with the Whyos and then just grew and grew, mostly because of the development of cities and of course prohibition. Prohibition basically gave gangs a foothold, these poor Jewish-Americans all lived in ghettos together and crime was their way to make a living. The gangs of the early 20th century were fascinating because although obviously crime wasn’t new, they made all new kinds of crime popular. Some of mobs, gangs, and mafia’s biggest sources of income were murder-for-hire, and bootlegging. To clearly link this to Progressivism, the rise of cities, the banning of alcohol, and the rise in poverty in big cities, all product of progressivism, were just a melting pot, waiting to spit out gangsters and mob bosses.

The idea of Social Darwinism also comes into play here, these poor Jewish-Americans were the prey, then some turned into the predators, fight or flight and the gangsters chose to fight and then eventually when their organizations grew they began to find ways to come out on top. Making fake money, selling alcohol, and even murdering for money, all ways the gangsters got ahead, sure it might not have been legal or moral, but it did work.

3rd Quarter Reflection

The Eddie Aikau movie was really awesome, I really liked that kind of documentary, also analyzing the political cartoon was fun, but my favorite thing we've done so far was looking at things in the 1880s-1920s, I liked that we had the freedom to choose our topic. I looked at crime in that time period and was fascinated with what I found I would love to do more projects where we look at a certain time period, but we get to choose what topic we research. The reading questions weren't to bad but I wish we had more than one night to work on them because they often take me a long time.