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What gave women suffrage and when was it passed?

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19th Amendment, 18th of August 1920

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What early movement attempted to register women to vote?

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League of Women Voters

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Percentage of women who worked in 1910 and 1940

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8.3% and 9.8%

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What was set up in 1920 that shows the new importance of women in the workplace

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Women’s Bureau of Labor

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Which group of people in the 1920s represent a new freedom for women?

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Flappers

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What shows that women’s freedoms were limited during the depression?

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In 1932, 97% of the meat packing industry female workforce worked as the only worker, or to supplement the man’s wages to get by (not choice work)

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What New Deal measure helped unemployed women?

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Women CCC, with Camp Tera in 1933 and by 1936 there were 36 camps taking 5,000 women a year

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What New Deal measure helped the family?

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New Deal’s Aid For Families with Dependent Children

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Which group tried to help women and blacks in 1930?

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Housewives League in Detroit tried to get women to shop at black stores and support each other

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What freed women in the home in 1941?

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Lanham’s Act extended childcare provisions, 130,000 children in day care by 1944

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Percentage of married women in workforce before and after war

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15% to 23%

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What wartime initiative gave women work?

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Women’s Land Army of America (for agricultural jobs)

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What caused a decease in employment of women after the war?

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Not being re-employed at factories, social pressures, cut in day care funding

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Percentage of people who thought married women should not work in 1936 and 1942

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82% and then 13%

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How did the war help women gain work in professions?

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They were trained by the army ie nurses, they also had an aptitude and appetite for work

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How did black women get jobs during the 50s often?

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They worked domestically for rich whites in the suburbs

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How many people moved to the suburbs in the 50s?

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19 million

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What caused women to want to come back to work while being in the suburbs?

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With the amenities and labour-saving devices of a new house, women had too much free time

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Why were the suburbs popular?

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Adverts made them seem like the American Dream, and TV shows like I Love Lucy made them seem great

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What occurred in cities during the move to suburbia?

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Those who were left were usually those who couldn’t, putting the centre of cities into a downward spiral

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What was immigration in 1882 and 1907?

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650,000 a year to 1.2 million a year

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What percentage of immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe in 1882 and 1907?

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From 13% up to 81%

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Which report caused action to be taken on immigration?

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Dillingham Commission of 1911, new immigrants are racially inferior

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Which group caused action to be taken on immigration?

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Immigration Restriction League, forced 1917 Immigration Act through Congress

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Percentage of Americans who were foreign born or had foreign born parents - 1910 and 1920

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74% up to 85%

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What did the 1921 Emergency Quota Act do?

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Restrict immigration to 3% of total in 1910

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What did the 1924 Emergency Quota Act do?

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Limit to 2% of population based on 1890 census, then in 1927 limit to 150,000, created 85% of new immigrants from good Europe and no Eastern Asians

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What occurred with Hispanics before the Wall Street Crash?

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Many came over to supply cheap labour and exploited, in particular the illegals due to fear of deportation

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What occurred with Hispanics after the Wall Street Crash?

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They were deported by more strict officials, around 400,000 Mexicans during the depression

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What occurred in cities to do with ethnic populations in the 1920s?

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The ethnicities created their own districts such as Chinatown or Little Italy

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What shows the effect of immigrants in politics in the 1920s?

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Election of Roosevelt as he acquired support from migrants who disliked being exploited by laissez-faire

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What shows how immigrants were taking over America in the 1920s?

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Al Smith, NY Governor and 1928 Presidential Candidate had an Irish-American mother

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How many Japanese were put in War Relocation Camps in WWII?

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120,000

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What did WWII do to affect immigrant-native relations?

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They worsened, as Japanese, German and Italians were treated with suspicion, and their shops were picketed

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What caused a positive reaction to immigrants during WWII?

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Like the Tuskegee Airmen, immigrants like Admiral Chester Nimitz (a German) were made heroes

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What caused a shift in policy away from quotas?

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It did not allow for refugees, like those from communism

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After Castro seized power, how many Cubans fled to America?

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200,000

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How can the Presidency be seen to affect immigration in the 60s?

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JFK wrote a book - A Nation of Immigrants - and tried to pass a law removing quotas in a similar vein, LBJ finally passed it in 1965 admitting 290,000 in a year

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What piece of legislation in 1953 shows a change in attitude towards migrants?

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The 1953 Refugee Relief Act allows 214,000 migrants from Europe

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How did Asian immigration change in the 60s and 70s?

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130,000 Vietnamese taken after fall of Saigon, and JFK Act allowing more Asian immigrants means that increased migration from these areas

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Which 2 pieces of legislation show a changing attitude towards Hispanics after WWII?

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1954 Operation Wetback, and 1976 Immigration and Nationality Act expanded to western hemisphere

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How many illegal Mexicans came to America in the 1970s per year?

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Averaging over 60,000 illegals a year

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What kind of attitude about migrants increased in the 1970s?

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A dislike and fear of migrants taking jobs, and being a drain on the economy - nativism

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What was the last straw for immigration fearmongerers?

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1980 Cuban immigrants appearing in Florida due to housing crisis in Cuba

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When did licensed radio start broadcasting?

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1920

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2 examples of use of radio during 30s for gain in politics

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Roosevelt’s fireside chats, and his use of Happy Days are Here Again in campaign

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How many cinema seats per person were there in 1941?

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12.5

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During the 30s, how did the people connect to stars?

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Using the 20 fan magazines in circulation, which had power over Hollywood in forming opinions of it

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How can the studios in Hollywood be seen to be powerful in cinema 1930-50?

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They made 90% of movies, and the 8 companies there had a monopoly of control over the industry

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How many films did Clara Bow star in in 1925?

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15 movies for the It girl

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Example of extra revenue measures in the 30s/40s by Hollywood?

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$500,000 deal between Coke and MGM

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How did the movies self-regulate in 1929-30, up to 1966?

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Hays Code

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Apart from the Hays Code, what shows a changing attitude of movie producers towards stars in the 30s?

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‘Morality clauses’ meant that if stars were employed, they had to have a restrained private life

54
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What offended people about jazz?

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Promiscuous dances such as Black Bottom, as well as connotation to sexual freedom and black artists playing it

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How many homes had a gramophone in 1929?

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50%

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What happened after the depression in the area of music?

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Radio took off as it was cheaper, and gramophone sales crashes; 1929 150m record sales, 1935 25m sales

57
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How did launches of radio stations help their success?

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First one, KDKA in 1920 launched on Election Day, while in 1926 NBC (first national radio) opened with a football game

58
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How did personalities grow in the radio?

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Preachers, such as Father Coughlin had many listeners (30 million in 1930) so had sway over population ie with support for New Deal

59
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What shows the extent of growth in the radio in the 1920s?

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Radio Act of 1927 had to set up federal licensing of airwaves and 500 stations by 1922

60
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How did advertisement change with TV in the 50s?

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The adverts targeted certain groups like children with ads to get them to pressure parents for certain gifts

61
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How can TV be seen as important in elections?

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1952 Eisenhower and 1960 Kennedy uses TV well to look presidential while Nixon in 1960 seems off in debates so loses

62
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How did TV change in the 50s and 60s?

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Less live filming (1953-80% down to 1960-36%) and more crime and violence on TV which irritated conservatives

63
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When was PBS and Sesame Street set up?

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1967 and then 1969

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What does Sesame street show about PBS?

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Liberal agenda it had, as well as educational desire and more racial tolerance

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How did TV affect people in a political sense?

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They were better informed as most people would happily watch TV while not all would read newspapers

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How does TV become more critical of politicians in the 60s and 70s?

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Shows like Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In directly criticised politicians, as well as MASH which criticised foreign policy and in depth news reports

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How did broadcast news affect the great depression?

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Radio and newspapers reported the crash, causing fears in stocks causing more to be sold off

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How did broadcast news change the reporting of WWII?

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Ed Murrow in London, as well as on the front line, told the war story directly to the USA as it happened

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How did broadcast news affect the Red Scare?

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Ed Murrow’s See It Now show exposed McCarthy as a liar and bully in 1953 and 1954

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How did broadcast new affect people’s estimation of the Presidency in 1973?

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The Watergate Hearing were shown on TV (all 250 hours) causing people to trust less in the government as they watched people testify against Nixon

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How did broadcast news change with the Vietnam War?

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More critical of the government, with Walter Cronkite’s 1968 documentary of Vietnam, news began to shape people’s opinion or at least reinforce it

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How can Jimmy Carter’s experience with the media show the changing attitude of broadcast news?

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As they were very critical of him ie ‘killer-rabbit attack’, he was target maybe because he was a bad president or that the media preferred Reagan, very unlike Roosevelt and polio though

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Where were women worst off in the whole time period/

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Rural females, cut off from urban women who were more likely to seize gains made in the workplace

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Date and location of first mall

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1954 Detroit suburbs, a focal point for rural housewives to meet

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What was set up by Kennedy in 1961 to do with women?

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Commission of Enquiry on the Status of Women

76
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What was passed in 1963 to do with women?

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Equal Pay Act

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What did the 1963 report find?

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Discrimination in wages, training and promotion, and women not encouraged to go into work from a young age like men, counsellors set up with Education Act of 1958 not effective at helping

78
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How many counsellors for women were there in 1963?

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12,000, not enough to help them

79
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When was The Feminine Mystique written by who?

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1963 Betty Friedman

80
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What was the result of The Feminine Mystique?

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NOW set up in 1966 with Freidman as a founding member to push for better enforcement of Equal Pay/Civil Rights Act, education for women to help them

81
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When had women started calling for ERA?

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1923, Alice Paul and Women’s Party

82
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What was set up to do with women in 1969 and 1971?

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National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and then National Women’s Political Caucus

83
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How did the radical branch of women’s liberation begin?

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Young female members of SNCC and SDS reacted to sexist nature of men in these associations by setting up their own small groups

84
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What was began in March 1968 for young radicals?

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Voice of the Women’s Liberation Movement, not that well selling but set the path for future

85
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Example of joint complaint of MLK and radicals?

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Irritation with media focus on extremist position

86
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When was the joint women’s strike and what happened?

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26 August 1970, many women from all groups from NOW to radicals stopped working, some protested, 3 unifying demands of equal opportunity in workplace, free childcare and free abortion on demand

87
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2 examples of books in 70s on women’s issues

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1970 - Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics on literature (a bit of a joke) and Gloria Steinem’s Ms magazine from 1972, for professional women

88
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What happened to NOW membership after the 1970 strike?

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It increased by 50%

89
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Why was timing poor for women’s movement?

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Turn to the 1970s and conservative backlash led to overall rejection of ideas compared to more liberal 1960s

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Examples of anti-ERA movements

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Phyllis Schlafly’s STOP ERA from 1972 and Eagle Forum, to protect traditional women’s privileges such as not working in the army

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Presidential Action to help women

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1967 LBJ executive order for affirmative action in federal jobs expanded to women

92
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1972 case helping women

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Eisenstadt v Baird 1972 allowing contraception for unmarried as well as married women

93
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How many states didn’t sign up to ERA by 1982?

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15

94
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When did the USA sign up to the UN policy of non-discrimination against women?

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1979

95
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What happened to the women’s movement in the late 1970s?

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Fragmentation due to singularly middle class nature of work, new groups such as Congress of Labour Union Women and Mexican American Women’s Organization

96
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2 examples of early suffrage women’s protests

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Women’s Party led by Alice Paul picketed White House and went on hunger strike, and Carrie Cart of National Suffrage Association led Leslie’s Weekly magazine to campaign for female suffrage

97
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Roosevelt gain with women in government

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Frances Perkins in 1933 as first female cabinet member and Secretary of Labour

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Number of women in WWII military roles

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200,000 in Women’s Army Corps and navy version

99
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Facts about women’s rise in WWII employment

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Increase of 50% in female employment since 1941, in 1944 women were 14% of all workers and 40% of aircraft plant workers

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Birth rate per 1000 in 1940 and 1946

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19.4 and 24 a year

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Type of jobs women did in 1950s

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Service industry or clerical

102
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Women in home book

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1947 Modern Woman: The Lost Sex by Farnham and Lundberg, science proves women can enjoy domesticity

103
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States laws on women in 1950s

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18 states refused female jurors and 6 banned female financial agreements with a male co-signatory

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Proportion of women feeling discriminated against in 1960 and 1974

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1/4 and 2/3rds

105
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Women’s wages a proportion of men’s in 1980

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62%

106
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Success of university women

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By mid-1970s 90% were in work outside the home

107
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Date of Sacco and Vanzetti case

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1920 crime, prosecuted in 1921, death in 1927

108
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Percentage of farm labour done in the West by Mexicans in 1920s

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75%

109
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Facts about move to cities

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1920 census showed more lived in urban areas for first time, and 6 million more moved from the country in 1920s

110
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Examples of city-orientated business

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Birmingham for steel, Houston for oil and Detroit for cars

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Numbers in Great Migration

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1.5m blacks in 1920s

112
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Why could blacks not move up the housing ladder?

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White restrictive covenants to stop people selling or renting to blacks

113
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Growth of suburbs in 1920s

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Growth in suburbs was 5 to 10 times faster than in cities, desire by suburbanites to retain non-city status

114
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Act of 1952 on immigration

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McCarran-Walter Act, quotas of Asians, no racial barrier for Asians to naturalize as US citizens, and family reunifications allowed 45,000 Japanese to enter in 1950s

115
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Number of legal immigrants and proportion of Europeans in 1970s

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450,000 with less than 20% European, changing greatly the make-up of some areas

116
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First proper talkie

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The Jazz Singer in 1927

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Power of cinema over people

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Directors such as Frank Capra and John Ford created the myths and culture of the era - 1939 Gone with the Wind

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Impact of WWII on cinema

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Carried on as normal with Office of War Information supervision, cinema ticket sales reached all time high in 1946

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Start of jazz success

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Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917 raised profile and desire for the black music in north

120
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Power of swing

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1935 Benny Goodman with big band - turned to interest in main singer with Frank Sinatra

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2 classic 1920s style of entertainment

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Crooners of Bing Crosby and Broadway

122
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Radio share of advertising in 1928 and 1945

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1% to 15%

123
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Percentage of people with colour TV in 1970

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38%

124
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Violence on TV in 1950s

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Gunsmoke as a western and 77 Sunset Strip as a detective series

125
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Example of power of TV in 1950s

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Importance of Ed Sullivan Show in launching Elvis and anybody else

126
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Percentage with radio in late 1930s

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80%

127
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Growth of TV news

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Lost money in early days so only 15 minute broadcasts, then 30 minutes from 1963 with CBS and NBC

128
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1963 report on TV news

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Americans main source of information was the TV

129
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1970s TV news

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Late 1970s saw 60 Minutes of CBS gaining great popularity as did morning news programmes

130
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3 effects of TV on life in 1950s

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1952 Checkers Speech on TV for Nixon, 29m watched Ike inauguration, 1954 Army-McCarthy

131
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How many people watched the 1960 Presidential debate?

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60 million

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