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96 Cards in this Set
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Bill of Rights
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the first ten ammendments to the constitution
added in 1791 formal lists citizens rights and freedoms |
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3 branches of government
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executive branch
legislative branch judigicial branch |
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the Constitution is
when written |
oldest written document meeting he changing needs of Americans
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Declaration of Independence
What country did we break from? What year did we sign it? |
England
1776 |
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Manifest Destiny
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19th century belief that the US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific O cean and into Mexican territory
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President
Vice President today |
Obama
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Republicians
Democrates |
anit slavery, conservative, believed ina wide arrange of things at this time 1800
slavery, |
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Industrializaton
Robber Barrons |
Rockefeller's Oil Company
paying employees low selling oil lower than his competitors he controlled market, hiked prices up |
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monopoly is
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a firm that bought out all its competitors
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skyscrapers in the late 1800
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because of the steel, make the framework
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3 factotrs contributing to the industrial boom in late 1800's
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railroads, cheap labor, technology
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Immigration and Urbanization
Responsible for bulding the Central Pacific Railroad |
Chinese immigrants
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Steamships in the early 1800's
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this is how most immigrants traveled to the US
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Urban Dwellers face these problems living in the city
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housing, transportation, water, sanatation, crime and fire
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Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
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they would work for lower wages
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Immigrants were drawn to the US
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they thought there was a better life here
to escape difficult conditions in their own country |
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Immigrants were drawn to the US
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they thought there was a better life here
to escape difficult conditions in their own country |
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in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
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Germany or Europe
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in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
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Germany or Europe
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Immigrants were drawn to the US
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they thought there was a better life here
to escape difficult conditions in their own country |
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PROGRESSIVISM
happening in public education around the 1900 |
children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
more children began attending school so kindergarten was added more high schools, more courses in vocational area, then expanded to universities |
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in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
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Germany or Europe
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Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
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they would work for lower wages
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election of 1912
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Deomcract Wilson
Bull Moose Roosevelt Republician Taft Socialist Debs Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil. |
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election of 1912
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Deomcract Wilson
Bull Moose Roosevelt Republician Taft Socialist Debs Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil. |
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PROGRESSIVISM
happening in public education around the 1900 |
children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
more children began attending school so kindergarten was added more high schools, more courses in vocational area, then expanded to universities |
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Immigrants were drawn to the US
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they thought there was a better life here
to escape difficult conditions in their own country |
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election of 1912
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Deomcract Wilson
Bull Moose Roosevelt Republician Taft Socialist Debs Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil. |
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Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
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they would work for lower wages
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in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
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Germany or Europe
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Immigrants were drawn to the US
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they thought there was a better life here
to escape difficult conditions in their own country |
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PROGRESSIVISM
happening in public education around the 1900 |
children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
more children began attending school so kindergarten was added more high schools, more courses in vocational area, then expanded to universities |
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in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
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Germany or Europe
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election of 1912
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Deomcract Wilson
Bull Moose Roosevelt Republician Taft Socialist Debs Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil. |
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PROGRESSIVISM
happening in public education around the 1900 |
children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
more children began attending school so kindergarten was added more high schools, more courses in vocational area, then expanded to universities |
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election of 1912
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Deomcract Wilson
Bull Moose Roosevelt Republician Taft Socialist Debs Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil. |
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Henry Ford
biggest benefit of assembly lines |
it opened up for more jobs
it made production faster it could be adapted to other products |
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PLESSY VS FERGUSON
what case over turned it |
Plessy seated in the all whites car of a train in 1892
he was convicted for breaking the law in Louisanna the Supreme Court over ruled it in 1896 |
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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in 1906 which halted the sale of contaminated foods and mredicines and called truth for labeling
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Significance of the Jungle/Author
Muckracker |
Upton Sinclair
shocking conditions of the immigrant workers, unsanitary conditions in a meat packing industry |
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Unionization
Positive aspects |
Women got better working conditions,child labor was recognizned,use of many strrikes got better working conditions
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Jim Crow Laws were
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laws enacted by southern state and local governments to seperate white and black people in public
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Imperialism and World War I
Significance of the USS Maine |
US warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana,Cuba 1898
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Open Door Policy
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no single nation would have a monopoly of trade with any part of China
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Buffalo Soldiers
Doughboys |
native americians
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Panama Canal
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reduce travel time between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
get permission from Columbia United States paid Panama 10mill plus annual rent work beagn in 1904 canal open in 1914 5,600 workers died $380 billion |
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Communism vs Democracy
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communism- government rule
democracy- people rule or have a say |
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4 main causes of WWI
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nationalism
imperalism militarism formation of the system of alliances |
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Espionage and Sedition Act
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a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20years in prison for interferring with the war effort
or saying anything disloyal, profane, abusive about the government |
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event that sparked WWI
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Germany announced they would sink all ships in British harbor
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Imperialism
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the policy of extending a nation's authority over another country
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importance of Peral Harbor
Location |
refueling base for American ships
ships stopped there from China |
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Isolationism
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a policy of pulling away from invovlement in world affairs
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League of Nations
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established in 1920
aoosication of nations gathered to promote international peace |
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importance of Peral Harbor
Location |
refueling base for American ships
ships stopped there from China |
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warfare in WWI
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tanks, airplanes, machine guns, observation ballons, poision gas,
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Isolationism
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a policy of pulling away from invovlement in world affairs
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Lusitania was important in WWI
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British passenger ship that was sunk by a German u-boat, this what got Americans first angry then everything else led them to declare war
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League of Nations
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established in 1920
aoosication of nations gathered to promote international peace |
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warfare in WWI
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tanks, airplanes, machine guns, observation ballons, poision gas,
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Lusitania was important in WWI
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British passenger ship that was sunk by a German u-boat, this what got Americans first angry then everything else led them to declare war
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Neutrality
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to stay out of wars
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Red Scare
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communists took over Russia
waved the red flag |
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Selective Service Act
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a law enacted in 1917 that required men to register for military service
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Treaty of Versallies
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1919 peace tredeaty at the end of WWI which established new nations, borders, and war reparations
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Zimmerman Note
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poroposing a German-American alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas , New Mexico, and Arizonia from US
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women gained by the end of WWI
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moved in to jobs of labor that men held, they did not get equal pay but it did help in the suffrage movement
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The US acquired
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Alaska from Russia
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In the Spanish-American War
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Mexico
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Allies in WWI
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France,Britian, and Russia
Triple Alliance was Germany, austria-hungria, Italy |
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Propaganda during WWI
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George Creel
paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures to influence peoples thoughts and actions use these to promote the war |
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Russia Post WWI
Government Leaders |
Lenin and his followers formed a new communists state in Russia, they waved the red flag
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RAORING 20's
Sacco and Vanzanetti |
they were itlian, said to have evaded the draft, anarchists
said they killed a factory paymaster, guard, convicted on circumstanial evidence |
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Most famous ganster of this era
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Al Capone
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Blue Collar
White Collar |
factory worker per hour
office worker salary |
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main factor causing urban sprawl
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the automobile
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Prohibition
ammendments associated |
manufacturing, sale, transporting of alcohol was illegal
18th ammendment helped lauch it 21st ammendment repealed it |
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920's flowering of Africian Americian artists
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scopes trials
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teacher Scopes was tried for teaching evolution
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flapper
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free thinking young women who embraced new fashions in the 1920's
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speakeasy
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where alcoholic drinks were bought and consumed illegally during prohibition
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GREAT DEPRESSION and NEW DEAL
Hoovervilles |
places where homeless and jobless people lived, in shanties
it started with veterans trying to get full pay from president Hoover |
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Great Depression
Causes |
tarrifs and war debt policies
crisis in farm sector availability of easy credit unequal distirbution of income |
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Great Depresion
Effects |
instead of homes there were shacks
soup kitchens and bread lines increased violence men left their families women canned food and made their own clothes some worked but this was difficult serious health problem for children schools close teenagera began hopping around the country this was dangerous sucide rate grew 30% people gave up their dreams others helped each other out |
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Dust Bowl
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drought began in the early 1930's
windstorm came in 1934 thousand of sharecroppers and framers were evicted. |
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oakies
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were migrants that came from Oaklahoma but then all were called this went on route 66 to California
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Grapes of Wrath and the Dust Bowl
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Novel about a family who lived during the dust bowl
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election of 1932
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Franklin D. Roosevlt
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Social Security
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provided pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities
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New Deal
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relief for the needy, economic recovery,
financial reform FDR was responsible |
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unemployment during the Great Depression
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13 million
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Great Depression
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1929 it begins with the stock market crash
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president blamed for the Depression
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Hoover
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pyschological stresses
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will to survive
adults stop going to doctors and dentists scrimping and saving became their way of life |
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Great MIgration
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in the early 20th century
the Africian Americans moving North |
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describe culture of the 20's
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some women took on a new experience shorter dresses, went out dancing, smoked , rank, went to work in factories, stores and professional offices, family dynamics changed, more things were availabe in stores to buy, cutting a women hair short, different kinds of music, more children attended school, radio,sports hereos, literature expanded
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