The 1920s had seen robust economic growth in the United States. Mass-production techniques and the growing availability of electricity allowed industries to increase their output—and profits—dramatically. Employment levels surged‚ and many workers saw improvements in their standards of living. Consumer demand for new products also drove creation of new loan programs: for the first time middle-class Americans were able to purchase such goods as refrigerators‚ washing machines‚ and automobiles by making
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Racism in early 1930 In the early 1930’s many races were still treated as inferiors. Not only were African Americans discriminated against but also many of the more oriental groups were treated the same way‚ more so in the south than the north. White Americans still had a better life than the minorities even though the depression greatly affected them as well. African Americans‚ despite the rights they were supposed to have‚ were still having a major struggle with many of their rights being
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Women of the 1930s 22/09/12 Of mice and men topic Back in the 1930 women were known as second class citizens. They didn’t have the same rights that men had. Doing any other job than being a house wife was really frowned upon. Men would go out and work for the money whilst women would look after the children and clean the home. Also during this time women had to cover up their legs and arms as men could get the wrong
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HIST104: Abortion in the 1930s. The economic situation during the 1930s drove some potential mothers to undergo illegal abortions. Opinions on this issue differed‚ as illustrated by these three documents. Doris Gordon‚ in her newspaper report Evil of Abortion’‚ argues that it is a woman’s duty to reproduce. She feels that the increase in illegal abortions has been contributed to by the advertising of contraceptives‚ high wages for women and lack of supervision of children by parents who
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National Hockey League got started in 1920‚ which is still around today. The game has changed slightly since its beginning but it is not a whole different game. Baseball hasn’t changed much and it doesn’t have to because it is just as exciting as it was when it became popular in the ’20’s and ’30’s. For the Olympics every 2 years the same magic is there today as there has always been. The game of hockey became a professional sport way back in 1890. But in 1920 was when the National Hockey League came
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Since the 1930’s racism has changed dramatically. Over the past 90 years racism has gotten better‚ we stopped having segregation‚ but still is discriminative against Native Americans and other races‚ ethnic groups‚ and religions. Today people are still treated differently and thought of differently because of who they are. Also people are more aware of the problem and are trying to fix things through the way we act towards african americans. In the following stories/movies there are many events
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The Klan of the 1930’s In 1865‚ the bloodiest war in American history drew itself to a much-needed end. However‚ the gory war had severe repercussions. One of which is the Ku Klux Klan‚ or as it is more commonly known‚ the ‘KKK’‚ or even ‘the Klan’. The Klan was not originally meant to perform filthy crimes against humanity‚ but any group started by individuals with such dark beliefs is bound to morph into something unintentionally. Something horrible. Something that would burn fear into the
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policy of appeasement is one in which both Britain and France and many other nations took towards Nazi Germany and its expansionist aims during the late 1930s‚ it is one of the most controversial and criticized foreign policies in history (Gelernter D 2002:22). This paper argues that the appeasement policy was for most nations around the world in the 1930s a less challenging way to deal with the problem of Hitler. Nowadays it is a common view that if Britain and France would have taken a harder line against
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6. The role of women in western society has changed drastically over the past three hundred years‚ and like most paradigm shifts‚ it happened in bursts. The 1920’s were one such time of great cultural change. Teenagers‚ as is common‚ felt the greatest amount of change in this time. For example‚ smoking and drinking among women became common in this period. What‚ a few years prior‚ simply didn’t happen‚ became a norm among the young. Fashion is another prime example. Young women‚ no longer forced
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decades from 1920 to 1940‚ the number of American women working outside the home increased slightly. In 1920‚ women made up 23.6 percent of the labor force; by 1940‚ this percentage had risen to 25.4. Some advances were made in working women’s rights‚ but during the Great Depression‚ many female workers lost their jobs or were forced to accept severe cuts in pay. Despite the economic difficulties of the period‚ some outstanding businesswomen achieved great commercial success. In the 1930s‚ despite the
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