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1
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Why did farmers not benefit from the economic boom

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Over production, European Tarifs so no exports,

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How many farmers moved to city after losing out in economic boom

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6 m

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Why did old the fabric industry suffer due to the economic boom

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New development of ray on wich was cheaper and easier to get than cotton

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Why did coal industry suffer

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Electricity and oil are more competitive

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5
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How many people in old Industries lived in poverty

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42 %

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Many African Americans were sharecroppers why was this a problem

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Farming industry is low and they don’t own the land they harvest from. It was hard to gain money.

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How many of the struggling farmers were African American

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3/4

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What is busy and slack

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Where people were seasonally employed. Who had jobs at some points at the year due to demand

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How many people in Chicago owned a car at the time

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3%

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How much did the top 5% earn compared to the bottom 42%

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The top 5% owned 32% of the total money in the whole of America compared to the bottom 42% 10%

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What is Lais er fair

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To let be, it means the government has very little interference

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12
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What was the wage difference in the roaring 20s

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11%

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13
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Why was radio important to the boom

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People were entertained by the broadcasting of sports and news. NBC had gained 150$ from it by 1929

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14
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Why was baseball popular

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It did it discriminate- babe Ruth made the equivalent of £7m a year back then

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15
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How much did cinema views up take between the 1910 and 20s

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3x 35m to 100m per week

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What would studios do for actors

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Studios were more focus on developing an actor rather than a movie. Creating stars like Chaplin Clara now and Rudolph Valentino

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17
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How many movies were Hollywood making by 1929

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500 a year

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18
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When did sound films release

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1927

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19
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What are talkies and what did they cause

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They are coloured sound films and they ruined actors careers because they had bad voices

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When was the first talkie

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1947

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21
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What is hays code

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Screen rules which monotizwd movies for example no kissing for longer than 3 seconds no nudity and discourage crime

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22
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What were women like before the war

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Long dresses
No make up
Chaperoned all the time
No smoking
Settle for poor paid jobs

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23
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What happened when war struck

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Women took men’s jobs- more freedom

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24
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When were woman given the right to vote

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1920

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25
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What happened to divorce rate in 1920

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Double due to women independence

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26
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What were flappers

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Women who dress freely and smoke and drink publicly rode motorcycles

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27
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What is anti flirt league

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Was a group to stop flappers from forming and living like they do

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28
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What is prohibition

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Forbidding of alcohol in America in 1920

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29
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What is peakeasy

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Secret bars or drinking shop during prohibition

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30
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What is bootleggers

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People who make or sell good illegally

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31
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What act and amendment is prohibition

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It is the vilstead act and the 18 amendment

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32
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Why was prohibition put in place

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Organisations for temperance eg saloon league because people shouldn’t waste money as high poverty and parents accidentally drunkenly smothering their infants

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33
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What is saloon league

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Saloon league is Protestant republican oraganisation that worked closely with kkk

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34
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Why did industrialists like prohibition

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Workers would be more effective if they did not drink

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35
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What’s the 3rd reason for prohibition

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Germans immigrants ruled the drink industry and xenophobia grew stopping people from drinking

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36
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Why didn’t it work

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People ignored it
200k speakeasy
Not enough officers
Moonshine (self made alc)
Easy to smuggle due to size

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37
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What negatives did prohibition bring

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Increase in organised crime due to corrupt politicians letting them run speakeasy

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38
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When did prohibition end

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When Roosevelt came in to power in 1933

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39
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Why was immigration to America difficult

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If found that you have any discrepancy with health - denied
Ticket cost life savings
Take literacy test

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40
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How many people emigrated in early America

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40 mil between 1850-1914

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41
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What was Ellis island

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Immigration station where all immigrant boats come in

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42
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Push factors for America

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Lack of space
Lack of opportunity
Persecution
Poverty

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43
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Pull factors for America

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Land
Opportunity
Pay and conditions
American dream

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44
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What did immigration cause

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Increase in prejudice and fears of communism

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45
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What was 1917 immigration act

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Anyone over 16 who could not speak a sentence of 40 words was banned

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46
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What was 1921 quota act

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Capped immigrants at 350k a year
Only 3% of people from the already existing population of people from your country in America is allowed to enter

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47
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What is 1924 national origins act

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3% to 2% and basing the other factor in the amount of people in 1890

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48
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What is red scare

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Era where an overplayed fear of communism caused by mass immigration led the government to arrest 6k people

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What are reds

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Communists

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50
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How did communist fear increase drastically

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Alexander Mitchell palmer was a target of terrorist attackers from communist

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51
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What are anarchist

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A group of people who don’t believe in a government and banks and systemic laws

52
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Why are anarchists feared/problem

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An anarchist by the name of Leon Franz czolgosz shot dead president McKinney

53
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What are palmer raids

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When 6k commies were put under arrest

54
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What is a wet

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Someone against prohibition

55
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Was Herbert hoover rep or dem

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Rep

56
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When did hoover clbecome pres

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1928

57
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What is speculation and how did it effect Wall Street

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People were borrowing money to buy stocks and return the money making a smaller profit. Seen as a form of gambling.

58
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What did banks due for speculation

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Lent 9 billion in 1929

59
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What happened in 1929 due to speculation

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There was less confidence in stocks therefore people sold causing the prices to go down. People lost money therefore couldn’t pay the bank back and the banks went rupt and couldn’t give people there savings as that’s what they were lending

60
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How did overproduction effect the Wall Street crash

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Factories were constantly producing loosing the market for the goods as those who could buy them already bought them.

61
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What happened in the decade before to smaller banks

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500 of them closed due to over lending

62
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How much was spent on advertising in 1929

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3 billion, however wages were lowering so people still didn’t have enough to buy

63
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Why did foreign tarrifs have a say in the Wall Street crash

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Europeans wages were low and there were tarrifs on buying from America to protect their own industries. This meant there was no way to sell products in America

64
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Time line of Wall Street crash

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March 1929- people are confident and shares proces are good

Sep 1929- a few cautious groups start to sell

24 oct- Black Thursday 13 million shares sold

26 Oct- 16 mil shares sold average price dropped 40c shareholders lose 8000 million

65
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How did wstc effect factory workers

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Factories were shut leaving people jobless this caused a knock on effect of people not buying from small businesses

66
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Did people not in stocks effected

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Indeed, banks lend people’s money

67
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How much did the wage decrease after the wstc

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60%

68
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What is underconsumption

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When rates of buying go down significantly

69
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How many banks went rupt in 1930

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1352

70
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What happened to the people who banked with America

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400k people lost everything

71
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How much did Winston Churchill lose in the stock market

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500k dollar

72
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How were farmers effected by the wstc

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Farmers were already suffering- but many had loans from banks for equipment and they were demanding money back from them

73
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How many people unemployed by 1933

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14mil = 25% of the labour force

74
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What were the standard of living at the start of the great deppression

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Production drop 45%
House building drop 80%
One family moved into cave in Central Park
1931- 238 people admitted to hospital for malnutrition

75
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What was a breadline

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Lines where people try to get meals

76
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What were hobos

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Unemployed workers travelling looking for work

77
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What is a Hooverville

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Where majority hobos moves to urban wastleands and didn’t have to pay a mortgage these camps had no proper toilets and cleaning facilities. They are called whovervilles to mock the president

78
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What was the dust bowl

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It was a drought combined with overfarming that caused huge storms of top soil to be flown. Farmers moved to other states in hopes of becoming a fruit farmer like Oregon and California

79
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What did hoover do for the crash

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$300m relieve fund-but only $30m actually reached people

$4000m on construction and the hoover dam-which remained incomplete

Gave £1500m in loans which did not reach people- rumoured bias on who got the money

Cut taxes and raised tarrifs

Blocked garner Wagner relief act

Veteran scandal- treatment of veterans

Hoovervilles symbolised his do nothing approach

80
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What was veteran scandal

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In 1932 ww1 veterans asked for promised bonus - senate refused
20k protested in White House
Veterans camped for 5 weeks for their bonuses of a total 2b
102 veterans arrested
This caused hoover to lose votes

81
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What famous quote had hoover said

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“There is no famine”

82
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What are Roosevelt’s 3 rs/new deal

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Relief
(Help for the old/sick/homeless)

Recovery
(Government schemes to provide better jobs)

Reform
(Make America a better place for ordinary people)

83
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How much did Roosevelt win by

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42/48 states landslide

84
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When did Roosevelt come in

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1933

85
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How did Roosevelt stabilise the banks

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Emergency banking act
Closed bank 5000 who weren’t sufficient enough.
The government then lent money to trusted banks
This was to gain the publics trust in the banks on e again

86
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How did Roosevelt help the unemployed

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Economy act (cut the pay of all government workers by 16%)

CCC (civilian conservation corp) this created jobs for 18-25 to do labour
Made 2.5m jobs

CWA (civil works administration) created work for 4m men building schools/aiports/road

FERA gave 500m to states to help homeless and starving people

87
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How did Roosevelt help industry and workers

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NRA encourages workers to create code for wage fair conditions and prices controlled right to join trade unions

HOLC gave loans to people struggling with mortgages

TVA made work building dams and electrical power stations

88
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How did Roosevelt help farmers

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FCA lent money to farmers in debt

AAA paid farmers to produce less and destroy produce to increase prices

89
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What was Wagner act/ second act

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Forced all employers to allow trade union

90
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What was social security act

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Part of the second new deal
Provided state pensions for elderly and partnered with state governments to help the ill and disabled

91
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Black Americans in war

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2 million black Americans worked in war home front

400k Americans migrate to north for work

Executive order 8802 stopped discrimination in jobs - by threatening removal of government contracts if they didn’t employ black Americans

Membership of NAACP increased from 50k to 450k

CORE pleas set up in 1942 by students

92
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Black American in the war

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1mil in army formed Jim Crow Army

Did menial jobs cooks cleaners etc

De segregation in the navy

By 1955 army switched from most segregated to most interfrated

93
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How many black pilots were there

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600

94
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How many jobs were created for women due to the war

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12m into 18.5 in 1945

95
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What did the government survey say during the war

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60% of industry managers said that women were the best workers

96
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How were women still different to the men in ww2

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Making 50~60% less in in jobs

97
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How many women in military

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300k

98
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What were the women military departments called

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WAC
WAVES
Nursing corp

99
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Benefits from ww2

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Business boosted
Farming boosted as exports to Europe
Helped solve unemployment
Increased wages- people saved instead of spent

100
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How many people were unemployed after ww2

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9.5m-670k

101
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What is war bond

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Money u gave gov and Yh why would give back after war

102
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Red scare

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Fear that Communism was taking over America that was brought by immigration. Over loyalty of America had to be shown

103
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What is HUAC

A

House in America activities comittee
Investigated communists. Famous people investigated aswell

104
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McCarthyism

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Senator Joe mcarthy put suspected communists on trial over 1 million files held on suspected communists

Started to accuse members of military of communists

Investigated

105
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What is blacklisted

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People who were suspected communists lost their jobs and honour

106
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How much does population go up after ww2 what does it cause

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40m
Increase demand for goods

107
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How was 1950s production similar to 1920

A

People started spending again and mass production started again

108
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What was the segregation law called

A

Jim Crow law
It made black people separate but equal

109
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What was brown vs board

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Caused by girl having to travel 2 miles to get to black school when she lived near white school in 1952

1954 Supreme Court made schools should be desegregated

Kkk membership increase

110
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When was Montgomery bus boycott and when did the law change

A

1955 - 56

111
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How many people took part in boycott

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17k

112
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When and what was Little Rock high school

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1957 9 black students go to Little Rock high school
Governor Faunus tried to stop them by telling the national guard but president Eisenhower calls them off and sends 1k troops to protect the kids
This happens for a year and televised
Causes complete segregated

113
Q

What were women expected to do in 1950

A

Be housewife once again

114
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When was average age of women for marriage in 1950

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20

115
Q

What happened in retaliation to march in Washington

A

Bomb in brum bombed 4 girls killed 1963

116
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1964 civics right act

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No government money for segregation companies

117
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1965 voting rights act

A

Black American no longer stopped from voting or government would take action

118
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When was interracial marriage made legal

A

1967

119
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Fair housing act

A

Made illegal for black people to be discriminated when buying property

120
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Who was betty Friedan

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Wrote a book the feminine mystique which pushed idea of women being able to do what they want

121
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Equal pay act

A

Equal pay for all not taken serious tho

122
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Pros of new frontier

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Peace corp was set up

Cut taxes
Gave grants to companies

Minimum wage increase

£4.9 billion dollars available for loans to improve housing, clear slum and build roads

Training schemes for unemployed

123
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Cons of new frontier

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New equipment meant fewer workers

Unemployment didn’t go down enough

Housing loans were only useful to those who could afford it

Did nothing for employment of black people

124
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Pros of great society

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Job corp

Increase min wage

Operation head start gave money onto poor schools

Major funding for schools

Domestic version of peace corps VISTA

Funding for arts and galleries

Cleaned inner city slums

Funded low income housing

125
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Cons of great society

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Vietnam war

Unemployment rising by 1968

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