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Failure of LoN |
Isolationism, 100k dead in ww1, avoiding colonial squabbles, Republican squabbles, Wilson had a stroke. |
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1920s immigration |
1914 open door policy, 'melting pot', 1917 literacy test, 1922 Emergency Quota Act, 1924 National Origins Act 2% |
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Mass Production |
1909 14 hour Model T took 14 hours to produce, assembly line in 1914 93 minutes. 3 months wages only, 1 million cars on the road. 1920s canned foods, synthetics, rayon. 10 million radios. Fordney McCumber, hire purchase. |
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Leisure |
Cinema: 110 million, first talkie 1927, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton. Jazz: alcohol, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Cotton Club, 10 million radios, black bottom. Charleston, tango. Flappers sports: babe ruth, jack Dempsey |
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KKK |
Jim Crow laws in the south, not allowed to get married, reformed in 1915, 5 million peak in 1925, associated with America, David Stephenson. |
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Prohibition causes |
Christian Temperence Union, Anti-Saloon League, absenteeism, German beers. |
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Prohibition failures |
5,000 moonshine deaths, 200,000 speakeasies, 1500 prohis, 5k arrest Izzy and Moe, corrupt agents and big gang leaders such as All Capone and Bugs Morane. |
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Wall Street Crash |
1929 'chicken in every pot', Roger Babson said a crash was coming, 24th of October = black Thursday, 29th wall street crash, uneven wealth distribution. 5,000 banks closed per year, repossessed homes, 100,000 bankrupt companies. |
