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    During the 1930s in China‚ the Chinese and Americans shared the economic crash; “The Great Depression” of the 1930s. Chinese women faced unemployment‚ the loss of their homes‚ and poverty. In the nineteenth century‚ the marriage process was taken care of mainly by the parents. They were the ones who arranged the marriage for their children. There was no choice in the matter because this was the way marriage was handled. The Chinese felt that marriage was a family matter‚ and not something personal

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    The 1930 era was marked by a severe outbreak of protectionism such as trade barriers and breakdown of the world trading system (D. Irwin‚ D College)‚ 2009. These trade barriers included tariffs‚ import quotas and exchange controls by the government creating a significant restriction of spending on foreign goods which intensified the depression and made the economic recovery even more difficult. According to (B.Eichengreen & D. Irwin 2009)‚ the restrictive of trade policies imposed by governments

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    During the 1930’s‚ the United States of America went through the largest financial crisis that the nation had ever experienced. This financial drought was called “The Great Depression.” The Great Depression resulted from the crash of the stock market in 1929. Every person who invested and owned any of the banks throughout America lost nearly every single dollar they had in them. This quickly cause the nation to go in a panic‚ leaving everyone in fear of what might happen next. As the Great Depression

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    Costa Why Not To Kill a Mockingbird Life in the Southern states during the 1930’s was full of racism and bigotry. Whites were seen as being superior over African-Americans and African-Americans were treated as less than equals. Since the 1930’s‚ society has made numerous strides to improve the racial inequality of the past and to bridge the gap between the two races. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird revisits the South in the 1930’s. The language used helps to make the novel more realistic.

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    The Civil War was a war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) between the north and south. The north was fighting to outlaw slavery and the south was fighting to keep it. Although conditions were bad the north generally had better conditions during this war. Many people suffered because of the Civil war and not just soldiers fighting. “The Civil War caused difficulties for the people at home as well as the soldiers. Although the North

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    The Southeastern United States in the 1930s were a time of racism and injustice. African Americans were harshly discriminated because of their darker skin in a way known as Jim Crow Racism. During this unjust era‚ African Americans‚ though legally given rights by the government‚ had little to none in these areas. Because of this‚ they were often subjected to unfair treatment ranging from racial slangs to outright lynchings. Starting in the 1870s‚ Jim Crow Racism would eventually be brought down in

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    in War without Mercy‚ racial stereotypes‚ ideas of racial superiority and inferiority permeated both the Axis and Allied powers. Through a chronological approach‚ we can view how the Germans‚ Japanese‚ and the Americans were all infected by race‚ during World War II. Bergin paints a picture very clearly of the evidence that shows how racial influence and the selection of race and space developed. The coined phrase “Race and Space was the pivotal centerpiece of Hitler’s campaign. World War II

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    During the 19th century‚ America was going through a major transition. People living in the West were learning to adapt to new environments; the south was fighting against outdated values. In the west people struggled with farming‚ building‚ and making laws. In the south‚ people were being killed‚ politicians rigged elections‚ and a president was aggressively pushing towards civil rights. The incredible thing is that both of these events occur in the same country around the same time. In the West

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    Lynching 1930 From 1890 to 1930‚ The Tuskegee Institute recorded a total of 3384 cases‚ 612 whites and 2772 blacks. However‚ it is obvious that blacks were subjected more to lynching from 1900 to 1930 where there were only 265 cases of whites compared to 1859 cases of blacks. Lawrence Beitlers ’ iconic photo‚ Lynching 1930‚ showed the lynching of two young black men accused of raping a teenage white girl. This photo is a good representation of how different blacks were treated during the early

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    War‚ America faced the difficult task of uniting not only two separated territories of the United States‚ but also two races long separated by racism and culture. Devastated and embittered by the damage of the war‚ the South had a long way to go in order to achieve true equality between the former slave owners and former slaves. The majority of the South remained set in racist behavior‚ finding post-Civil War legal loopholes to diminish African American rights (Tindall & Shi‚ 2010‚ pp. 757-758)

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