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The battle of 1919 Charles Schenck vs. Supreme Court

      People say this country is great due to the 1st Amendment saying that we have the right to say to what we want to say, ever since this country was created. WRONG! During World War I, in order to make sure that going to war was the right thing to do and to get rid of consent that would be bad for the government due believing that the public be unionized (history book page 615) and not look like idiots. The Espionage Act of 1917 allowed the government to arrest people who "sabotaged or spying against the government". All from the history book.

    When things could not have gotten any worse for the government taking over the media and lives due to people talking bad about it I found about the Sedition Act of 1918, it allows anyone to be arrested for the sake of the Great War to be a positive support. All the while it was thanks to this sad little act that Charles Schenk was arrested under the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act.

     Charles Schenk a member of the Socialist Party, was arrested for the printing of documents that have "messed with drafting of new recruits for the war" The Socialists were saying that this forced recruitment is similar to breaking the 13th amendment, they were making them do things like slaves. It was then at that time that  the government would finally arrest Charles Schenk for just "just printing the leaflets" out for only 125 dollars.
 
Charles Schenk was sentenced to court then he was found guilty for not persuading a recruit but the leaflets. He then appealed to federal court, then to Supreme Court. the similarities between all of the courts was that he started talking about the first amendment and free speech. Sadly like all the other times he had gone to court, he was accused guilty and justice smited him. It was 0-9, all of the member agreed he was guilty.

After that all the members agreed he was guilty, it was only then that one of the supreme court members Justice Holmes at first wanted Schenk to be guilty of his "crimes". Justice Holmes actually felt regret towards what he had just done towards Schenk. Sadly even though he did nothing wrong the Government made a "example" out of him.

    Schenk's punishment could have been worse but it was pretty bad. For every time he went to court he had to serve time for a total of ten years. The math is three cases meaning, three times ten equals thirty years. The only problem is he served all three cases at the same time, meaning just ten years. Tens years of his life was wasted all for printing sheets.

picture of Charles Schenk                        Picture of Holmes 

Picture of Sedition Act 




















                                                    Picture of Supreme Court 1919

Indians helping in World War I

Many races and males and females joined up together to take down the forces of Germany. In 1916 however, Indian troops were supporting the British Troops against the Germans. the link here http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/path/kd7bq7/16, This link is special because it has the very first film of the Official Pictures in the British Army

Final Great White Fleet report by Sam Rushing

Day of Departure- Dec 23 1907 day that war ships leave making the 2 year trip around the world. picture of USS Connecticut departing Hampton Roads
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/gwf_cruise.htm

Rio- made it there on Jan 13 had huge problem, bar fight also brought the navy soldiers in to the fight cause problems tween Brazil and America http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/events/ev-1900s/gwf07-09/gwf-2.htm

Callao Peru- Feb 20 1908 stayed for about nine days the people were excited for us created a dance piece called the "White Squadron" made sure we felt at home.

http://www.navy.mil/gwf/peru.htm

Sydney Australia- Set on Aug 15 and reached Sydney in five days on Aug 20, we were greeted in about 250,000 people they were quite happy and gave them the key to their city and also a famous moment when a navy soldier fell asleep on a bench with a do not disturb sign on it. and the picture of the kangaroo

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/gwf_cruise.htm

Japan- Oct 18 1908 arrived ironically showered with much kindness and used their traditions causing the Americans to feel uncomfortable. and were killed with kindness 

Arrival to USA- Feb 22 1909

made it back to Hampton Roads when got back the ships not white as they used to.Roosevelt describing how great this service was to this country

Sams Great White Fleet research so far

in the research so far it says that the expedition started on Dec 16 1907. It was the at the location known as Hampton Roads Va. Roosevelt was on the Mayflower and was going to set the Fleet to sea. this web site has exact detail of where the Great White Fleet went to, and what happened to the places. but it has so much would take a while to put their expedition into my words.
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/gwf_cruise.htm.

Other website described how the models of the battle ships were describing where the turrets were and what the   names of the ships were ex. Illinois BB 7 Alabama BB 8
here is the website
http://www.greatwhitefleet.info/GWF-The_Battleships.html

views on other people's blogs

the blogs were pretty amazing, for example Ashley Willis's one on how Annie Taylor was the first person to fall down Niagra Falls in a barrel just to have fame and money. Another good one was the danger of the Great Influenza killing 1/3 of the U.S population because of the mass deaths it brought the influenza down abit. Ben's was actually amazing due to the many ways they had storage for rich people and how it had rugs and paintings.

Birth of Jazz, Ragtime

Sam Rushing

Ana Lawson

11-6-11

Birth of Jazz, Ragtime

Not many people around my age have heard of the awesome piano based music Ragtime. It was created in the 1890’s to the 1920’s and had a second coming in the 1970’s. Ragtime music was often created by African Americans from

“ragging” tunes turning some songs in to choreographic songs. There were many geniuses that created many Ragtime songs such as Will Marion Cook, George Walker, and the Johnson Brothers. Not only people alone there was a ragtime group called Tin Pan Alley that composed Ragtime music. There was one though that was called the “King of Ragtime” and his name was Scott Joplin. One of his songs, Maple

Leaf Rag, was able to sell a million copies in the 1890’s to 1900’s.

            Scott Joplin made many types that young people would love to hear his songs, one of his songs was based on the terrible historic tragedy known as Crash at Crush. In Crush, Texas 1896, the idea was to stage two trains to look as though they crash into each other. Sadly the boilers from the trains exploded and maimed and killed a few people. Historians have no idea whatsoever, whether Scott was there at the crash or not. Some music though could not be found such as Morning Glory.

            Sadly historians could not find a lot about Scott Joplin’s life, for example where exactly he was born and when he was born. Historians do know that Scott Joplin’s lived in Sedalia, Missouri for a certain amount of years, but would have a huge impact with his life. Which helped contribute his ragtime music, since ragtime music was popular in New Orleans, and St. Louis. Then his family moved to Texarkana. Scott first taught himself to play the piano at a white owned house where his mom worked at. Then a German born man who was a musician named Julius Weiss. He then taught Scott how to truly play the piano. The first reported sign of his start of his musical career was the summertime of 1891, in Texarkana. Scott Joplin had many types of gigs and went to music classes at the George R. Smith College at Sedalia. Due to Julius’s teachings he was able to compose a concerto and called it Treemonisha, dedicating the song to his mother. Sadly the first time Scott played it was known as a failure,(this hyperlink is not his original this one was finished with the chorus this time).

            Just like Jazz, and also the Blues, Ragtime music also had a choreographic style, Scott Joplin made some of his songs for the pastime African American dance, “The Cake Walk”. It was actually created around the times of slavery, and for entertainment was couples would “strut around” and whoever won would win the cake. Examples of one of his cakewalk songs is the Swipsey Cakewalk. Besides this song that was a big influence on Ragtime music. At the beginning of the Jazz age, the Charleston came and took over.

            Around the year 1895, the group that had a huge impact on the music industry was the famous ragtime Tin Pan Alley Group. Among one of the publishers and also editor, was the famous Irving Berlin a Jewish Russian immigrant, who is known as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. What he did for the Tin Pan Alley was he categorized into four different categories, ballads, novelty songs, ragtime, and show songs, that way it would be easier to organize. Irving was not just a publisher, his ragtime song the Alexander’s Ragtime Band was known as a ragtime worldwide phenomenon. (Reason for the name Alexander was used was it was used for black characters).  Scott Joplin was known as the King of Ragtime, but Berlin was known as America’s Chief Ragtime Composer.

   

                                                                 Tin Pan Alley

                                                                 Crash at Crush