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  • Write an account of the economic developments that produced the boom of the 1920s. [15]
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laissez faire - to let businesses thrive
tariffs - 1922 Fordney McCumber
speculation - 9 billion ( 6/10), gained dividends
mass production and mass marketing of products
car industry - employment, road construction, boosted industries

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  • Write an account of Republican government policies in the 1920s. [15]
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laissez faire - low taxation and high tarrifs
lets businesses thrive
1922 fordney mccumber
hire purchase - 6/10, 8/10
allowed growth for businesses

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  • Write an account of how new consumer goods changed people’s lives in the USA in the 1920s. [15]
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40 percent of households had a radio by 1930
People could listen to the outside world
Cars - people could go out ( 15 million model ts by 1927)
100 million cinema tickets per week
Rise of the flapper - due to electrificatonn - fridges vaccum cleaners
Credit - 6/10 cars, 8/10 radios

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  • Write an account of the growth of mass marketing in the 1920s. [15]
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Wartime propgandists became advertising agencies
Road construction was the biggest employer in the 1920s, employing 1/2 mil ppl with good wages, they could build billboards on roads,
Radios - 40 percent of households
mass production increased the need for mass marketing
hire purchase increased sales as people could buy stuff in instalments

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  • Write an account of the development of mass production in the 1920s. [15]
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one car per 90 seconds by the end of the decade
moving assembly line - 5 dollars a day
7500 cars were made a day, 15 mil model ts sold by 1927
telephones, fridges, vaccum cleaners , radios all mass produced
by 1929 there were 10 million radios and 20 million telephones
9 mil to 26 mil cars
wages rose by 11 percent

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  • Write an account of the growth in the motor industry in the 1920s. [15]
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biggest employer in the 1920s
employed 1/2 mil ppl paying good wages
boosted associated industries ( 75 percent of glass)
9 million to 26 million cars by 1929

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  • Write an account of the use of credit and hire purchase in the 1920s. [15]
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6/10 cars, 8/10 radios
instalments, allowed for great economic boom
investment - 9 million ( 6/10 dollars in banks)

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  • Write an account of the growth of new industries in the 1920s. [15]
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100 mil cinema tickts per week by the end of the decade, more than doubled
nbc - 1926 - 500 stations
by 1929 150 mil dollars per year

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  • Write an account of development of speculation in the 1920s. [15]
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9 mil, 6 in every 10 dollars
buying on the margin
speculators, allowed businesses to expand
buying on the margin - people borrowed up to 90 percent of the share price
overconfidence in companies caused WSC, 89.19 percent fall in Dow Jones index for 30 major companies

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  • Write an account of the decline of agriculture in the 1920s. [15]
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Agricultural production fell 40 percent between 1928 and 1931
Employed 1/4 of the working population
Overproduction - europe didnt need exports, prohibition limited the consumption of barley
competition from canada and argentina

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  • Write an account of problems faced by older industries in the 1920s. [15]
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With the creation of Rayon, industries like cotton struggled
Agriculture struggled due to overproduction prohibtion, demobilisation in europe , competition from europe and argentina

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  • Write an account of how the motor car changed US society in the 1920s. [15]
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cinema more than doubled - 100 mil / week by the end of the decade
people could travel - 15 mil model t by 1927
car industry employed up to 1/2 mil workers with good wages
road construction was the biggest employer in the 1920s
boosted associated industries - glass was 75% of us production

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  • Write an account of the growth of popular entertainment in the 1920s. [15]
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cinema doubled 100 mil/week by end of decade
radios - 40 percent of households had a radio by 1930
jazz became more popular when blacks migrated trying to find better opportunities - chicago and NY had doubling black popuations in the 1920s - Cotton Club etc
Dance crazes - charleston, shimmy and whatnot
first talkie in 1927 - the jazz singer
sports boomed - red sox, heavyweight boxing with jack dempsey

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  • Write an account of the growth of the film industry in the 1920s. [15]
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doubled - 100 mil tickets / week by the end of the decade
1927 - first talkie - the jazz singer
film stars like rudolph valentino charlie chaplin etc became popular

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  • Write an account of the development of new forms of media in the 1920s. [15]
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radio - 40% by 1930
cinema - 100 mil tickets stat
jazz clubs - cotton club
dance crazes - hokey pokey

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  • Write an account of the rise of intolerance in the 1920s. [15]
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red scare in 1919 - 21
palmer raids - 60000 sus, 10000 deport, only 556 had basis
sacco and vanzetti 1927 murder of shoe master massachusetts
“anarchist bastards”
Scopes monkey trial = 1925 - john scopes evolution defended by darrow and case led by jennings bryan who was ridiculed for his biblical literalism
1917- basic literacy test
1921 - emergency quota act - 357000 - ( 3 percent of nationalities in 1910)
1924 - national origins - 2% and no asians )
85 percent of immigrants came from northern europe
KKK - 5 mil people by 1925

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  • Write an account on the rise of racial intolerance in the USA in the 1920s. [15]
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1917- basic literacy test
1921 - emergency quota act - 357000 - ( 3 percent of nationalities in 1910)
1924 - national origins - 2% and no asians )
85 percent of immigrants came from northern europe
KKK - 5 mil people by 1925
blacks were being discriminated - higher rent, worse housing and education, and healthcare
migration to northen cities where black populations doubled during the 1920s

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  • Write an account of the response to immigration in the USA in the 1920s. [15]
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1917- basic literacy test
1921 - emergency quota act - 357000 - ( 3 percent of nationalities in 1910)
1924 - national origins - 2% and no asians )
85 percent of immigrants came from northern europe
KKK - 5 mil people by 1925
idk know much more josiah help me out

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  • Write an account of the ‘red scare’ in the 1920s. [15]
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fear of communist immigration after 1917 bolshevik revolution
palmer raids - series of bomb blasts including may 1919 milwaukee
sus 60000, rounded 10000, only 556 had a basis
great propoganda through radio, and newspapers

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  • Write an account of religious intolerance in the 1920s. [15]
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john scopes trial
evolutionism, scopes was put on trial - jennings bryan was ridiculed for literal biblical takes
jews and catholics were lynched by the kkk - who had a population of 5 mil by 1925
i need help josiah i know no more

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  • Write an account of the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’. [15]
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teaching evolution in schools in tennesee ( part of the bible belt) over creationism , breaking the butler act
in 1925
defended by clarence darrow
case led by william jennings bryan
Gave a fine of $100, but it was overruled as there couldnt be a fine over 50$
bryan ridiculed for biblical literalism

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  • Write an account of the growth in support for the KKK in the 1920s. [15]
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oh lord im so cooked if this comes up

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  • Write an account of the introduction of prohibition. [15]
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18th amendment
Volstead act 0.5 percent
both in 1919, law from 1920
anti saloon league, womens temperance movement, protestant church
commies thrive on drink
believed the grain could be better used for bread
believed it caused violence
brewers were of german descent, seen as unpatriotic

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  • Write an account of the increase in gangsterism and organised crime in the 1920s. [15]
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speakesises - al capone made 60 million a year
valentines day massacre in 1929 - morans gang was murderd by fake police led by alcapone
speakesies - NY had 32000 by 1929, more speakesies in 1925 that saloons in 1919
130 gang murders in chicago in 1927 with no arrests

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* Write an account of the repeal of prohibition. [15]
roosevelt supported the 21st amendment which repealed the 18th in december 1933 because alcohol would help the economy by creating jobs and tax revenue prohibtion helped gangsters become powerful through speakesies ( al capone 60 mil a year) ineffective enforcement ( 1.5k agents for a large area) can i even talk about this stuff if its an account and not an explanation
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* Write an account of the changing roles of women in the 1920s. [15]
most stayed the same, failed to achieve power in politics, stayed at home as a housewife 70 percent of households did not have a vacuum cleaner and 76 percent no washing machine limited change in rural areas however flappers in urban areas all women could vote in america by 1920 employment increased by 25 percent to 10 million suggestive clothing, clubbing, smoking, makeup, short hair divorced doubled from 100,000 in 1914 to 200000 by 1929, and so did cigarette sales
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* Write an account of the economic developments that produced the Crash of 1929. [15]
hire purchase allowed people to get into lots of debt (6/10 8/10) speculation as well 9 bil, ( 6 in every 10 loaned by banks) idk what else help me
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* Write an account of the Wall Street Crash. [15]
Saturday 19th oct - 3.5 million shares sold ( people were worried that prices are too high and needed to sell) Sunday 20th - new york times headline " stocks driven down as wave of selling engulfs market" Black Thursday - 24th october - almost 13 million shares were traded in one day, prices drove down 25th - richard whitney ( broker for j.P morgan) bought shares for more than their current price to inject money into the economy Saturday 26 - hoover said the businesses of the country is in a " prosperous basis " to try and restore confidence 29th of october - " worst day in history of the stock market " 16 mil share trraded the market crashed ( BLACK MONDAY)
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* Write an account of how the Wall Street Crash led to the Great Depression. [15]
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* Write an account of the effects of the Wall Street Crash in US political developments up to 1933? The Wall Street Crash and its financial, economic and social effects
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* Write an account of the effects of the Depression on people in the cities. [15]
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* Write an account of the effects of the Depression on people in the countryside. [15]
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* Write an account of President Hoover’s response to the Wall Street Crash. [15]
federal farm board bought surplus crops Restructuring finance corportation ( 1500 mil to businessses) financed projects like the hoover dam for jobs cut taxes by 130 mil in 1930 hawley smoot act increased tariffs in 1930
34
* Write an account of the 1932 Presidential election. [15]
roosevelt was a peoples person travelled 20800 km on the train, making 16 major speeches and another 60 form the back of his train he was a governor before, and promoted intervention from the government idk what else help
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* Write an account of Roosevelt’s ‘Hundred Days’. [15]
relief , recovery reform passed 13 new laws closed down the banks for 4 days in an emergenvy bank holiday ( emergency banking act) 10,000 banks and 100,000 businesses closed unstable banks were closed public confidence restored, 1 billion was redeposited due to confidence in banks again fire side chats in 1932 - 30 broadcasts explaining the measures of the new deal
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* Write an account of Roosevelt’s response to the depression. [15]
alphabet agencies do i just talk about alphabet agencies
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* Write an account of the New Deal. [15]
CCC - employed for men 18-25, over 2 million men, low wages but for over 9 years , planting forests, clearing scrub land CWA - work for winter of 1933-34 4 million jobs created building roads and common airports PWA - provided jobs for dam, bridge and railway construction 7 billion spend creating millions of jobs AAA -paid farmers to take millinos of acres out of cultivation prices roe and farmers incomes doubled between 1933 and 1939 but many farm labourers lost their jobs FERA - 500 million to assist the poor through soup kitchens, clothing, bedding work schemes and nursery schools literally any other alphabet agency you can remember
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* Write an account of the Second New Deal. [15]
wagner act - made it illegal to sack workers part of a trade union, allowed workers to bargain for better pay social security act - old age pensions, unemployment benefit, and help for sick and disabled WPA -1935 - provided jobs building schools, hospitals and highways schemes for artists and actors, training for young people Resettlement adminstration - 1935 - helped farm labourers share croppers and small holdders who hadnt been helped by AAA 500000 familes were moved to better land and housing it was replaced by the farm security adminstration in 1937 ( provided loans to small farmers and camps for migrant workers)
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* Write an account of how the New Deal helped the unemployed. [15]
social security act - unemployment benefit CCC - 18 - 25 , 2 million men for over 9 years PWA - procided jobs in dam bridge and railway construction 7 bil spend between 33 and 39 to create millions of jobs CWA - 1933 - 1934 winter work - 4 million jobs created
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* Write an account of how the New Deal helped farmers. [15]
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* Write an account of opposition to the New Deal. [15]
Opposition from the left - thought Roosevelt didnt go far enough Huey Long - share our wealth scheme limits personal wealth to 3 million, share government taxes between all americans, to provide pensions, minimum wages and free education Radio Priest - thought the new deal hadn't done enough to help the poor every sunday evening to an audience of 40 million founded the national union for social justice with 7 mil members Townsend Clubs - Republicans - believed in laissez faire policies, and compared new deal to stalins planning of russia State rights campaigners - thought the new deal undermind the states right to be independent liberty league - accused FDR of destroying the enterprise campaigned against state unions
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* Write an account of Supreme Court opposition to the New Deal. [15]

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