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    There were many major proponents of economic justice in the 1930s. During the mid-1930s‚ the assembly of millions of workers in mass-production industries had succeeded in resisting unionization. What came as a great surprise to many Americans was the way the federal government now seemed to be on the side of labor. The National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act granted worker’s the legal right to form unions. However‚ American factories at the beginning of the New Deal were small dictatorships

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    African Americans were treated with discrimination and racial segregation due to the “Jim Crow” Laws which segregated blacks from being at certain places with white people (Civil Rights Movement). This inequality angered many African Americans as they began to protest for their civil rights and equality‚ turning it into the Civil Rights Movement. The fight for freedom was a long and rough journey‚ but they were able to put an end to segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on

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    Throughout the 1930s many people in the United States had to suffer though a Great Depression that caused many Americans to lose many things‚ starting from their jobs to even their own pride in themselves. How ever this was different for the people who lived in the south‚ the southern people were not only just affected by the Great Depression they were also affected by heavy racism and strongly enforced Jim Crow laws. With the enforced Jim Crow laws‚ these laws heavily restricted the life of a colored

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    America’s change through the 20’s‚ 30’s‚ and 40’s Throughout history the United States has seen so many drastic changes. These changes have been seen in many of the decades like the 1920’s1930s ‚and 1940’s. Through these years the United States has seen drastic changes in policies for things such war‚ economy‚ and social views and in the political field. These decades were some of the most important years of American history. They showed American power‚ will‚ and strength. Through the the Roaring

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    American economy and its culture changed dramatically during the 1920’s and 1930s due to many factors‚ including the Great Depression. The Depression itself‚ among other elements such as consumerism‚ national debt overload and the 1930 Banking Crisis all played an invaluable part in the change and sheds light on how America’s economy is run today. The first of these changes after the Depression was the New Deal. In the 1920’s‚ American banks were privately run‚ with the money from their clients

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    reveal/display that World war 2 did not truly advance women’s rights. Women gained more job positions‚ but they were temporary. They received a lower pay‚ and equal pay wasn’t solved until far after ww2. World war one was more influential‚ as well as the 20’s‚ 30’s and post ww2. Before world war 2‚ women were seen as stay at home mothers/housewives (2). The increasing need for women in the military force as a result of men leaving for war‚ created jobs that implements the role of women into

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    a beginning of change in the role of the federal government. Most of his new ideas aimed at creating new jobs almost always require the assistance of government fundings. Because of this‚ the government started spending more and more money in the 1930s than it was recieving‚ this which as a reprocution ended uo creating a huge deficit. Some people during this period‚ believed that the government was now pushing its powers way too far‚ disreguarding what the Federal Government has done and started

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    I n the 1930s the farming was a big boom‚ but as more people came the less and less the nutrients was taken out of the soil. The dust bowl was also known as “the Dirty Thirties” before all the migrants moved to the states the soil was rich and full of nutrients‚ but the states didn’t get much rain to keep the land fertilized. As soon as the immigrants moved they started to plant right away and the soil went from rich and full of nutrients to poor soil and the nutrients were all gone. So the

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    world war Life in the 1930s Sports: during the great depression‚ people were miserable. There was barley any good news in the papers. The best way to escape being miserable in that decade was sports. The soccer world cup‚ hockey‚ boxing and the summer olympics of 1936 were all great entertainment for the people stuck in the depression Transportation: transportation was different back then from what it is today. They usually used cars or street cars to get from one place to another in a

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    There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life. Our society reflects racial‚ ethnic‚ and religious diversity. Racial discrimination can take many forms from the most horrible and brutal form of racisms. Due to the fact rich people do choose where and as they want to live and they can exclude those neighbors from lower social class. So there can be trace the tendency that high social class is concentrated in the part of the city where they have the

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