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    Please show how Segregation shaped the lives of African Americans during the time frame 1870-1920. Please examine all faucet of society under slavery to support your argument. In the year of 1870‚ it was the re invention of slavery. America could not be built without economic. The south was still a negative place and they failed to accept blacks. After decades of discrimination‚ the voting rights act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels

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    the best jazz musicians‚ amazing trading routs‚ the greatest pizza‚ and a amazing place to have a drink. Until 1920‚ when Prohibition had hit and had forever tainted the history of Chicago. The forbidding of alcohol had caused mayhem throughout the city‚ which resulted in the nickname “the most corrupt city” in the whole United States. Overtime‚ the blame for corrupting Chicago in the 1920’s was forever

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    In the 1920s women being to show their place in society not only as housewives but as a self conserved women. This new era of women was a bold new look for women as they only relied on themselves to get their jobs done. Makeup During the era there was an increased use of make up and it was fashionable to perform the rites of makeup in public. Instead of disappearing to the powder room women got out their engraved compact and applied lipstick and powder in sight of a whole restaurant or nightclub

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    In the 1920’s the American society began adopting new values that threatened the traditional values that originated in the 19th century. People began moving to large cities and women started to be less constraint to the image of being a proper woman. Instead‚ they became freer and tried to find their own identity. A new generation was born which challenged traditional standards with many of their new ideas. As more people began moving to urban locations‚ like New york and Chicago‚ they began making

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    What developments between 1920- 1930 were aimed at preserving world peace and what was the impact of these developments upon international relations? From 1920-1930‚ people were shell-shocked after the terror and brutality of the war. They were desperate to ensure that it never happened again‚ which lead to the creation of many new treaties designed to maintain the peace around the world. In 1924‚ the Dawes Plan was introduced to collect war reparations debt from Germany. The Dawes Plan aimed

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    these new ideas and things as they came out newly. Living in the twenties I would imagine that it was a war free time with jazz music and the radio on just relaxing in your car going to the theaters with a flapper. One reason why I would live in the 1920s is because the urbanization and that more young people were going to school and getting an education so that they can become smart because without an education people a cluelist of what is going on in their surroundings. Also since that the big cities

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    movement and played prominent roles in founding settlement houses‚ in social work‚ in immigrant aid societies‚ and in other movements for social reform. Although women did not win the right to vote until 1920‚ the movement for women’s suffrage began before the Civil War in the 1840s. By the 1920s‚ women’s lives had undergone many changes and the rise of the "new woman" was in full effect” (New Women p. 2). The first women’s movement caused a stir in the world. Women having the right to vote was a

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    The automobile industry effected much of the American culture. It was making for a new way of life in many ways. However‚ the automobile Industry was one of many that caused a rapid decline in many traditional industries in the 1920’s. The railroad and coal industry was affected by the trucking industry. The American Story states that the biggest hit of all was the American Farmers. Urban workers were also affected but not nearly as much as the farmers. Many of the ways of the American life was being

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    Since their development in the 1920’s‚ character tests have aided in the process of determining whether or not individuals are well suited for particular jobs. Today‚ the tests are divided into four distinct categories: personality‚ interests‚ skills‚ and values. Upon examination‚ a composite score of these tests revealed my character is best suited for a career in biological studies‚ as determined by the top twenty career choices provided by My Plan. These included titles such as Animal Scientist

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    society where women are treated equal to men these days. One of such community is the Mexican women during the 1920s. Many of these women leaders were responsible for bringing the other women out of their homes to accompany men in all walks of their lives. Julie Leininger Pycior has explained the heights the Mexican women of the 1920s reached‚ in the essay “Tejanas Navigating the 1920s.” One of the priorities of the Mexican women was the “community-based mutual assistance” (Pycior 72). They formed

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