The Chinese head tax was levied on Chinese immigration to Canada between 1885 and 1923‚ under the Chinese Immigration Act (1885). With few exceptions‚ Chinese people had to pay $50 (later raised to $100‚ then $500) to come to Canada. This anti-Chinese legislation was the first in Canadian history to exclude immigration on the basis of ethnic origin. When the tax was removed from the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923‚ Chinese immigration was banned until 1947. Background Although the first major wave
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Following the victory of the Suffrage movement with the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 many in the women’s movement were left wondering‚ what’s next? Suffrage was the attainment of a goal of generations of women‚ and with its passage‚ to paraphrase Plutarch‚ what worlds were left to be conquered? Writing in the Historian‚ Peter Geidel states that it was at this point that the women’s movement splintered into schools: The Social Feminists and the Feminists”. According to Geidel
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14 October 2012 Graphic Design Paper German Expressionism The Expressionism movement started in Germany in 1905 before World War 1 and ended in the late 1930s. Expressionism peaked in 1923. By the end of 1923‚ politically motivated attacks against modern art had begun‚ and Expressionist cinema began. Expressionist cinema was showed that cinema could also be an art form‚ and not just entertainment. Under the influence of German Expressionism artists‚ Germany became the most innovative and
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(a) Study Source 1. How useful is it as evidence for an historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp Putsch of 1920? [13] This is a primary source so it can be a useful piece of evidence for a historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp putsch. This is a primary source because it is an extract from the proclamation‚ (The Cabinet issued this proclamation calling on Germany’s workers to defeat the putsch by means of a general strike.) This was written for public consumption and the author’s reputation
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However the "London ultimatum" in May 1921 demanded reparations in gold or foreign currency to be paid in annual installments of 2‚000‚000‚000 (2 billion) goldmarks plus 26 percent of the value of Germany’s exports. A 50 million mark banknote from 1923. The first payment was made when due in June 1921. That was the beginning of an increasingly rapiddevaluation of the Mark which fell to less than one third of a cent by November 1921 (approx. 330 Marks per US Dollar). The total reparations demanded
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Merged Nationalist Party with PNF [1923] to give fascism more respectability [Alfredo Rocco and Luigi Federzoni had influential connections to landowners‚ industrialists‚ armed forces‚ civil service and royal court. De Stefani‚ Mussolini’s finance minister‚ pursued orthodox financial polices to help upturn the economy in 1924-25. Cancelled Falconi and Visocchi Decrees [legalized peasant land seizures] Banned strikes and ended independent unions in 1926 1923 Education Act to make religious education
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he was able to choose the Chancellor‚ giving Hitler and the Nazi Party more power. The Hyperinflation Crisis of 1923 is also an example of the weak Weimar Republic. However‚ the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic was not the only aid to the growth and rise to power of the Nazi Party‚ as there were many external factors‚ such as the Dawes Plan‚ linked to the Hyperinflation Crisis of 1923‚ which exposed Germany to the Great Depression‚ as well as the Treaty of Versailles‚ and its many points including
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factory and office in July. By the end of the year‚ employees numbered more than 50. Whilst doing this Matsushita continued to research new products and in 1923 he invented a new type of bicycle lamp called the “bullet lamp” due to its bullet like shape (seen in the picture to the right.)(http://panasonic.net/history/corporate/chronicle/1923-01.html). This was a breakthrough in bicycle lamps at the time as many cyclists used oil lanterns as a way of illumination. Although there were some battery
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Why did the Munich Putsch take place? In November 1923‚ Hitler tried to take advantage of the crisis involving the Weimar Government by initiating a revolution in Munich. It seemed like the perfect opportunity but there was poor planning and misjudgement which resulted in failure and Hitler going to prison. On the 8th November 1923 the Bavarian Prime Minister‚ Gustav Kahr‚ was holding a meeting with around 3‚000 business men. Gustav was joined by some of the most senior men in Bavarian politics
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