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1
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Cars made in 1900

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4000

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First moving production line

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1913

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How many cars were produced between 1908-1925

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Over 15 million

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4
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How many cars were being produced by 1927

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1 every 10 seconds

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5
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How many were produced in 1929

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4.8 million

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How much did a car cost in 1925

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$290, 3 month wages of a factory worker

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7
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1920’s Chicago (2)

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3% of semi-skilled workers
29% of middle class workers
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What % of Americans bought goods from catalogues in 1928?

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33%

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9
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How many cars were brought on credit

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6/10

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How many radios were brought on credit?

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8/10

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11
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Number radios 1920 vs 1929

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1920- 60,000

1929- 10 million

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12
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Number of phones 1915 vs 1930

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1915- 10 million

1930- 20 million

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13
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Number of cars 1919 vs 1929

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1919- 9 million

1929- 26 million

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14
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By how much did prices fall in 1921

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50%

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15
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How many more bankruptcies

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5x

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16
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How many African-Americans were unemployed?

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250,000

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17
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Farm income drop 1919 vs 1928

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1919- $22 billion

1928- $13 billion

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18
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How many rural Americans forced out of the land in 1920

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6 million

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19
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% of Americans living under poverty line

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+40%

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20
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Unemployment from 1920-1929

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Remains at 5%

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21
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Coal miners wage in 1928

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Men- $18

Women $9

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22
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Reduce in working hours

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47-44h

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23
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Number of radios in 1930

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1 for every 2/3 households

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24
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Liscensed radio station 1921

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1

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25
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Liscensed radio stations 1922

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508

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26
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How much was the nbc making per year in what year

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1929- $150 million/ year

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27
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Name a boxer

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Jack Dempsey

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28
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How many people listened to his boxing fight

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1.5 million

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29
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Name a baseballer

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Babe Ruth

Had a life time record of 714 home runs

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30
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How much did this baseballer earn per year

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180,000

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31
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1920 cinema

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Multi-billion dollar business

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32
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When was the first movie with sound

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1927

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33
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Cost of cinema

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10-20 cents

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34
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Tickets sold by end of decade

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100 million/ week

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35
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Women in employment

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1929- 10 million working outside home

24% more than in 1920

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36
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Redscare files built

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60,000 suspected communists

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37
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Immigrants deported as communist

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10,000

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38
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Kukluxklan formation

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1850

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39
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Restart kukluxklan

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1915

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40
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Members kukluxklan

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1924- 4.5 million members

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41
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African Americans life expectancy

Vs whites

A

1900-1930 from 45 to 48 years

Whites 11 more

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42
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African Americans employment

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1930- all shops in South belt of Chicago employed them

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43
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Black lawyer

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Paul Robeson didn’t find job because he was black

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44
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Jazz singers

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Joe oliver & luis Armstrong

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45
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African Americans poets

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Counted Cullen ( wrote about racial prejudice and black poverty)
Langston Hughes
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46
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NAACP

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National association for the advancement of coloured people

Founded by= Webdubois

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47
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Unia

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Universal negro improvement association

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48
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Unia member

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1921- 1 million

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49
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Shipping line

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Set up by Marcus Garvey

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50
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Native Americans served in ww1

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10,000

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51
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Native Americans in number

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From 1.5 million to 250,000 in 1920

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52
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Native Americans improvement

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1924- us citenship can vote
1928- Merriam report (stayed their schools were underfunded, understaffed and run too harshly) (it stated that they should be taught the skills they require for their rural way of living)
1934- new deal

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53
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Prohibition

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Volstead act,January 1920

54
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Prohibition agents

A

250,000

55
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NYC speaksies

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30,000

56
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Gangster

A

Alcapone

57
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Wsc new investors that were speculators

A

600,000

58
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Shares bought on the margin

A

1929- 20 million had bought them on the margin

59
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Buying on the margin

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Payed only 10% of what the share was worth

60
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Wsc money lent by banks for speculation

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$9 billion

61
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Gd workers unemployed

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1932- Cleveland 50%

Toledo 80%

62
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Ny problems

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1931- 238 people in NY hospital suffering from starvation/malnourishment
45% died

63
Q

New deal how many alphabet agencies

A

15

64
Q

New deal banks allowed to reopen

A

5,000 banks which had solvent

65
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FERA

A

Federal
Emergency
Relief
Administration

66
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Ccc

A

Civilian
Conservation
Crops

67
Q

Ccc number people helped

A

2.5 million

68
Q

Ccc- wages

A

A dollar a month from gov

30 a month

69
Q

Ccc other

A

1934-1937 similar program for 8500 women

70
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Aaa

A

Agricultural
Adjustment
Act

71
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Aaa improvement

A

farmers were 50% better off by 1936

72
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Pwa

A

public works administration

73
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Pwa employed

A

8 million

74
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Pwa built

A

SAN Francisco golden gate

75
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NRA

A

national recovery administration

76
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NRA helped

A

2 million employers joined scheme

77
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Wsc date

A

Black Tuesday

29/10/1929

78
Q

Money loss gd

A

Vanderbilts lost $40 million

Rockefeller lost 80% of his wealth

79
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Banks failure

A

1929- almost 700 banks fail
1933- +5000 banks out of business
Bank of United States in nyc goes under with 400,000 depositors

80
Q

Gd us economy

A

shrank by 50% in the first 5 years

81
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Gd unemployment

A
  1. 5 million within a year

(24. 9%) 1933- 15 million unemployed

82
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Employment price

A

Drop by 60%

83
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Migrant workers

A

1932- 2 million

84
Q

Prices drop

A

Fell 10% per year

85
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Stock market

A

1929-1932 lost 90% of its value

86
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International trade

A

collapsed by 60% , -25% in total number of units

1929- $5.3 billion 1933- $1.8 billion

87
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Wagner act

A

Second new deal
1935
Illegal to sack workers for being in trade unions

88
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Resetlement administration, 1935

A

Aims to move 500,000 to areas of better land

89
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Works progress administration 1935

A

Created jobs for people in the countryside

90
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Social security act

A

1935

Pensions for the old aged unemployed or sick

91
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Indian recognition act

A

1934
Provided money to help them to buy and improve their land .
Helped them preserve and practice their traditions

92
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Black capitalist movement

A

Encouraged blacks to start their own business

93
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Anti-evolution league

A

League opposed modern ideas states such a Indian, Tennessee very religious

94
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Leader of the fundamentalists

A

William Jennings Bryan

95
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John- scopes

A

Bio teacher that deliberately broke the law so his case would be taken to trial

96
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Monkey trial

A

1925

97
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Money gangsters made

A

About 2 billion

98
Q

CCC workers

A

18-25
Would work in the forest
Rcieved fod and accommodation

99
Q

Purpose of the new deal

A

Relief- provide jobs for the poor
Recover- the economy
Reform- the banking system

100
Q

New deal as a success women

A

Eleanor Roosevelt- important campaigner on social problems
Frances Perkins- secretariat of labour, removed 59 corrupt officials from the labour department
Mary Maleod- African- American headed the national youth administration

101
Q

Open door policy

A

Entry in the country was made as essay as possible as the government wanted to populate the continent.

102
Q

Literacy test

A

1917
Immigrants had to pass a test to prove they could read and write, this meant many Eastern European’s didn’t pass. There was an immigration fee of $8

103
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Emergency quota act 1921

A

Limit 357,000 immigrants per year
New immigrants were allowed to pass as a % of the people of that nationality that lived in the US in 1910
For east Europeans it was 3%

104
Q

National origins act 1924

A

150,000 migrants per year
Deliberately designed to penalise immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
Only 2% of the population of any foreign group could arrive (based on the population of 1890).

105
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1929 immigration act

A

Banned Asian immigration
North and western immigrants allocated 85% of the places
By 1930 immigration from China, Japan, and Esstern Europe had finished

106
Q

Palmer raids and bombing

A

1918 the home of attorney general Mitchell Palmer was bombed he was the head of the US justice department
Palmer organised a series of raids against left -wing groups in which over 6000 suspects were arrested they were held in prison and were deported.
Russians were sent back in a ship called “the soviet ark”

107
Q

Sacco and Vanzetti trial

A

May 1920 case opened
Lasts 45 days
875 jury member used
1927 executed in the electric chair

108
Q

Aims of the kukluxklan

A

Discriminate catholics, Jews, communists and Mexicans

Black return to slavery

Only wasps (white Anglo Saxons Protestants) could join

109
Q

Unia slogan

A

Black is beautiful

110
Q

Paul Robeson as an actor

A

Famous for the musical ‘ showboat’ and acting in ‘othello’ by Shakespeare
He believed the famous had the responsibility to fight for justice and peace

111
Q

Failure of prohibition health

A

By 1926 50,000 people had died from poisoned alcohol made at home. This alcohol also lead to paralysis and blindness
Moonshine

111
Q

St Valentine’s Day massacre

A

1929
Climax of gangster wars
Bugs Moran killed one of Capone friends and in return seven members of Moran gang were killed by Capones men who were dressed as police
Public turned against prohibition

111
Q

Fall in alcoholism during prohibition

A

80%

112
Q

Alcapone murders

A

He had 300 his rivals killed

113
Q

Change in car price

A

1908- 850

1925= 290

114
Q

Increase in roads

A

By 1930 the total length of paved roads had doubled

115
Q

Wsc first sign

A

24th of October 1929-

12.8 million shares traded

116
Q

Movies deelop

A

1928 oscars introduced

117
Q

Number of cinemas

A

1926- 17,000

118
Q

Divorce rates

A

Double from 1914-1929

119
Q

Example of trusts

A

Carnegie controlled the steel industry

120
Q

Roosevelt speeches

A

16 major

60 from the back of his train

121
Q

Example of trusts

A

Carnegie controlled the steel industry

122
Q

Radical opposition to the New deal

A

Father Coughlin became disillusioned because he felt that Roosevelt was failing to solve the problems of the poor he broadcasted his ideas every Sunday on the radio
Huey Long- planned a major redistribution of wealth to stimulate the economy

123
Q

New deal as a success unemployment

A

Fell by over 30% between 1933-1939

Created millions of jobs

124
Q

New deal as a success trade unions

A

Working conditions and pay generally increased

Increased to over 7 million

125
Q

New deal as a success African-Americans

A

Around 200,000 gained benefit from the CCC or other new deal agencies

126
Q

New deal as a failure unemployment

A

Never dropped below 14%

Only solved when the USA entered WW2

127
Q

New deal as a failure trade unions

A

Companies disliked them

In 1937, 10 Chicago steel workers were shot dead by police when taking part in a strike march

128
Q

New deal as a failure WOMEN

A

Most programs aimed for manual workers which women weren’t
Local gov tried to avoid paying out social security payments to women by introducing special qualifications and conditions

129
Q

New deal as a failure African-Americans

A

Racial segregation in the CCC
Mortgages where not given to black families in white neighbourhoods
No laws against lunching
Domestic workers not included in social security act and many of them worked in that

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