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66 Cards in this Set
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Prohibition |
1920-1933 |
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Flappers |
1920s |
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healthcare provided for pregnant women |
Sheppard Towner Act - 1921 |
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Wyoming gives women vote |
1869 |
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First woman elected to congress |
1917 |
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National Woman's Party |
campaigning for the women's vote c. 1917 |
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19th amendment passed by comgress |
1920 - women's enfranchisement |
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increase in women in work during in 1920s |
25% |
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League of Women voters |
1920 - to encourage women voters |
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Women joining workforce during ww2 |
Aprox 6m, 75% married |
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Lanham's Act |
1941 provided childcare (taken away again after the war) |
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Betty Friedan publishes book |
The feminine mystique 1963 |
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NOW founded |
National Organisation for Women 1966 |
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NOW big strike |
August 1970 - 50th anniversary of women getting vote - want legalise abortion, equal pay and no discrimination in the workplace Member ship increase by 50% |
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SC ruling to legalise abortion |
1973 |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
1972 - to guarantee equal rights for men and women |
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Still X states refusing equal rights act by 198Y |
15 - 1982 |
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First talking movie |
1927 |
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Hay's code |
1930-66 - regulated what you could show in movies |
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movies = biggest entertainment meduim |
1917 |
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first commercial radio station - broadcasts election results |
1920 |
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% of homes w gramaphones |
in 1925 - 50% |
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Radio Act |
1927 federal licensing of radio stations to monitor them |
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first solo flight is broadcast on radio |
1927 |
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radio news coverage adds to panic of crash |
1929 |
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Radio 'War of the Worlds' |
1938 |
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cinema becomes glamorous |
post ww2 |
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By 19XY Z% of homes have a radio |
91% by 1950 |
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McCarthy exposed on 'See It Now' |
1954 |
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TV debate between JKF and Nixon |
1960 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis JFK'S broadcasts calm public |
1962 |
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M*A*S*H set in Korean war |
criticises Nam war, during Nam war 1955-1975 |
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Walter Cronkite broadcasts on TV criticising Vietnam war |
1968 |
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households w TV |
1950 - 9% 1980 - 98% |
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Watergate TV coverage |
1974 |
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between 1910-20 how many people emigrated to USA |
6m - more than ever before of them were from southern and eastern Europe rather than Northern |
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Immigration Act |
1917 - listed 'undesirable' immigrants who should be excluded + literacy test for above 16 (included criminals, insane and homosexuals - literacy test for over 16s) |
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First Red Scare |
1919-1920 |
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thousands of immigrants were deported |
after ww, w Red Scare (Sacco and Vanzetti executed) |
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Dillingham commission |
investigated immigration form 1907-1911 said American culture was threatened by immigration (sense of the preference of old protestant ones over new ones, who were appaz not inkeeping w American ideals) |
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Emergency Quota Act |
1921 - limited immigration to 370,000 a year, quotas according 1910 census (later reduced to 150,000 in a 1924 Act, and allocated more to Northern europe) |
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all immigrants from asian countries were banned |
1927 |
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immigrants arriving in 1920s compared to 1930s |
1920s - 4m 1930s - 500,000 |
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no. of Japanese interned during ww2 |
120,000 (while only 1% of Germans/Italians) |
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Alien Registration Act |
1940 - non-citizens have to register w the federal gov (supposed to be war-time measure but then normalised into green card system - when a non-citizen has a green card they can work/live in US indefinitely) |
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Displaced Person's Act |
1948 - allowed 415,000 people who had been displaced by war to enter the US (was later expanded in 1953 Refugee Relief Act) |
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Immigration and Nationality Acts |
1952 - allows 100,000 asian immigrants 1965 - more non-europeans, increase limit, abolish quotas 1976 - western hemisphere now included, limit is 20,000 (but can do little to stop illegal immigrants) |
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Operation Wetback |
1953-1958 - 3.8m deported (mostly Mexican) |
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JFK's book |
'A Nation of Immigrants' 1958 - value of immigrants |
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Illegal immigrants deported 1980 |
1million |
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no. unmarried women unemployed and homeless during height of depression |
2m |
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First female state governor |
Nellie Taylor Ross 1924 (for Wyoming) |
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no. female accountants by X |
by 1930 less than 100 |
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no. women in the House of Reps |
by 1928 2/435 |
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FDR is first president to have woman in his cabinet |
Frances Perkins |
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Strong female characters/people c1940s |
Mae West, Greta Garbo, Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly plane solo across the Atlantic |
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proportion of the workforce that are women during the war years |
1/3 |
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no. women that joined armed forces to assist military |
300,000 |
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black women can serve as nurses (to black patients) |
1941 |
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% married women in workforce |
1940 - 17% 1950 - 25% 1960 - 32% |
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Membership of NOW by 1974 |
40,000 |
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SC allow all unmarried women contraception |
1972 |
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National Origins Act |
1924 limit of 150,000 and according to 1890 census |
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foreign language magazines |
1914 - c1300 1960 - 75 |
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Cuban Adjustment Act |
1966- Cubans entering America from 1959 on are automatically citizens |
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Armed Forces Naturalisation Act |
1968- Anyone that's fought in american armed forces in a war = automatically a citizen |
