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How strong did the USA feel in 1914?
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Very strong, World War 1 has started, the USA sells food and ammunition and makes millions of dollars.
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How strong did the USA feel in 1917?
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Quite strong, the USA has declared war on an already weakened Germany.
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How strong did the USA feel in 1919?
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Strong, World War 1 is won, the USA public don't accept the Treaty and refuse to oin the League of Nations.
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How strong did the USA feel in 1921?
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Extremely strong, the USA votes in Warren Harding, republican president, during the next few years buisness booms and many ordinary Americans enoy luxuries.
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How strong did the USA feel in 1929?
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Quite weak, the stock market crashes, millions of people are affected by money or employment.
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How strong did the USA feel in 1930?
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Very weak, the great depression starts, across the world millions are now affected.
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What kind of luxuries could normal Americans now endorse in?
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Cars, telephones, fridges, clothes, even their own homes, most for the first time.
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What is an economic boom?
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When the economy grows very quickly on a very large scale, eg. the stock market rises and buisnesses grow.
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What are consumer goods?
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Goods that people can buy. Eg, cars, fridges, telephones, clothes and their own homes.
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What is isolationism?
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Seperating your country from getting involved in foreign affairs, this stopped in America briefly in 1917 when they got involved in the war.
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In 10 years how did the amount of consumer products change?
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Cars: 9 million to 26 million. -1919 and from 1921 to 1929 for every one fridge in 1921, there was 167 in 1929.
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What happened to the cities in the 1920?
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The city suburbs grew.
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What's a republican party?
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Republicans believe that the government shouldn't intervene in peoples lives and that they should handle their own affairs.
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What's a democratic party?
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Democratics believe that the government should intervene in peoples lives, to help poo people, or to keep a country's economy working properly.
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Why did the USA boom in the 1920's?
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The USA was vast in raw materials, USA sold food + lent money + ammunition to the allies, USA produced new materials like plastic.
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Which groups of people were badly affected?
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Farmers and Black Americans.
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What area of agriculture did better?
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Fruit and vegetable farmers.
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What was the distribution of income in 1925?
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5% of the population were rich, they recieved 32% of the income in America, 53% of the population were middle class, they recieved 58% of the income, 42% of the population were poor, they recieved 10% of the countries income.
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Womens roles in the 1900's?
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Caring for their children, being a typical housewife, not to wear make-up, behave politiely, wear restricted clothes, men to control them, when going out with a boyfriend they must be chaperoned, not to take part in sport, not to smoke in public, most states they were not allowed to vote, very few paid obs were open to women, most working women were in lower paid careers, such as cleaning, dress making and sectarial work.
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Changes in the 1920's of women's roles?
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Some women were taken to war in 1917, in 1920 all women had the vote, domestic work made easier through new appliances eg. washing machines, women wore more daring clothes, smoked in public, drank with men in public, went out with men in public without a chaperone, kissed in public, urban areas more women had work, women were less likely to stay in unhappy marriages, divorce in 1914 = 100,000, that doubled in 1929.
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What were the limitations to the changes?
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Women were still paid less than men, in politics women were not equal with men, by 1929 only a few women had been elected.
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Was there really a sexual revolution?
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There were more sexual films that women watched, although there is no evidence to suggest that women copied this, the reaction of many women was outrage, there was a strong conservative veiw in American society, a combination of religion and old country values kept most American women in a much more restricted role than young urban women enoyed.
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What was the 20's nicknamed as?
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The roaring twenties.
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Immigration?
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Immigration was high in the early 1900's because the American Dream was being realised and there was a boom in buisness.
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Tolerance to immigration?
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Intolerance to immigrants grew because people feared communism because of the Russian Revolution.
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How many people went on strike?
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400,000.
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Why did the strike happen?
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People were against immigration and wanted to make a stand.
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Who were Sacco and Varzetti?
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They were self confessed anarchists, they were arrested in 1920 on suspicion of armed robbery and murder, in 1927 after 6 years in prison they were excuted and there was a world outcry because people believed the trial became about their political veiws.
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How did immigration change from 1901-1910 and 1929?
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In 1901-1910 the high point was at a million immigrants per year, in 1929 the figuire had fallen to 150,000 per year.
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Who were the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
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White supremacy movement.
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What did the KKK do and how much power did they have?
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They used violence to imtimidate black Americans, President Wilson hinted that he supported the KKK, with this kind of support the KKK became a more political power in the 1920's.
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What improvements were there for Black Americans in the 1920's?
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Paul Robeson became famous, later banned from performing, in the north black Americans had a better chance of getting work, jazz helped black Americans because it was mostly them who peformed it, black writers also did well, such as Langton Hughes, black Americans also entered politics, Marcus Garney also founded the Universal Negro Improvement (UNIA)
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What problems were there for black Americans still?
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Life expectancy increased, 45-48 whereas white peoples life expectancy was 55-59, many black Americans lived in great poverty, if a black person moved into an area, there would be great hostility from white people.
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What was the monkey trial?
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The monkey trial was a battle between religion and evolution.
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Who was this started by?
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john Scopes.
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How did it come to this?
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He went against the law of teaching religous veiws and not evolution.
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When was this?
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Tenessee, 1925.
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It was the first trial to be _____?
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Covered by the media.
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Who won?
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Traditionlists, but it did wake people up to evolution.
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What is prohibition?
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The forbidding by law of the manufacturing, possesion, transportation and sale of alcoholic bevarages.
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What is temperance?
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Movement in America in the 20th century that encouraged people to give up alcohol, most members were devout Christians.
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What were supporters of prohibition called and what did they claim?
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They were known as dries, they made claims such as 3000 infants every year were smothered by their drunken parents.
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When was prohibition throughout the country announced?
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1920.
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Why did prohibition fail due to gangsters?
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Organised gangs made around $2 billion out of the sale of illegal alcohol (estimated)
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