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    Fighting the War at Home Teaching German was outlawed in several states The invention of liberty cabbage “Liberty Streak” Remember Belgium by George Creel’s CPI It gets worse Espionage Act- Spys were put away for the was The Sedition Act- Can’t say anything bad about the war Schenck vs. United States- Can’t help people get out of being drafted Great Migration- blacks moving north (race riots) Slackers- Label people they don’t like and get rid of them The Palmer Raids Attorney General

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    10 Allusions from TKAM 1. “Angel May” (p. 51) Angel May means the common nickname given to girls to mock their particularly “girly” behavior. Jem refers to Scout as Angel May when Dill and Jem were planning on going to the Radley’s house to try and see Boo Radley. Scout is a tomboy so Jem calling her this is like calling her weak and scared. 2. “Get Miss Maudie’s goat” (p.44) An expression meaning‚ “to annoy someone jokingly.” Uncle Jack asks Miss Maudie to marry him every Christmas and she always

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    You see a line for soup as long as line to ride at theme park in summer people with clothes flythe and talking about how they lost their jobs. A time where America faced it worse economic stance‚ people were losing their jobs and money‚ most were put in poverty.The Great Depression started in 1929 and end 1939. Will be talking about what happen in the Great Depression and how it had an affect on people and farmers‚ about the U.S economy and other nations. The action taken by the president dealing

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    The Great Depression Overview The Great Depression was the deepest economic downturn of the Western industrialised world and last for ten years. It occurred on 1929 to 1939‚ beginning with the collapse of the New York Stock Market on Wall Street. Due to the decline in economic activity‚ millions of people were in poverty and left 28% of the population in the US without an income. It mainly affected the middle class families rather than the rich class who were oblivious to the situation. Causes Before

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    Reform was necessary. The initial plans of Herbert Hoover and the deals of his successor President Franklin Delano Roosevelt held many similarities in their goals‚ but because of each man’s own personality‚ their courses of action were quite different. In the end‚ however‚ both plans failed to end the depression and instead left rather intriguing legacies on the American government. When the Depression first began around 1929 under President Herbert Hoover’s administration‚ most were told the

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    Burden.” America in the Jazz Age (1920-1929) Sedition Act: forbid anyone from speaking out against the war. One man got 20 years in jail for writing anti-war editorials. First Red Scare: Led by two people‚ A Mitchell Palmer & J. Edgar Hoover. The first scare of communism being brought to the united states and that there were people in America trying to promote communism. Palmer Raids: attempts by the

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    United States entered an era of darkness. It was as if the US was a wet sponge‚ and someone wrung the water out of the sponge‚ leaving it dry‚ and defeated. This era of hardships and economic troubles was called the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover‚ main president for the duration of the Great Depression did little to no use in calming this political epidemic. Americans were lost and hopeless until President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped onto plate and started turning the tide. During

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    The Great Depression The Great Depression was a sad time of worldwide poverty‚ but it ended well for most countries. According to Wikipedia.org‚ the official beginning of the Great Depression was the American stock market crash on Black Tuesday‚ October 1929. This started the economic depression for the rest of the world. Other contributing factors were a weak banking system in the U.S and the Dust Bowl‚ a massive drought in the Midwest. The Dust Bowl happened after the “overproduction of agricultural

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    improve the country after its economic outbreak. The Great Depression in 1929 caused an economic recession which affected the entire country. Due to this‚ companies went bankrupt‚ money supply was reduced‚ and many people began losing their jobs. Herbert Hoover which was president at the time believed that things would get better over time and that there was nothing the government could do to improve the counties situation. However‚ few years later when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office‚ he immediately

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt Shortly after the Hoover Administration was out of the presidential office the next president to be elected would be walking into one of the worst situations one could think of. During the 1920s Americans were forced to basically fend for themselves and save all that they possessed. President Hoover was the 31st president and was also the president prior the SSA. During his time in office we literally watched

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