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History - The roaring 20's
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Mapa Mental sobre History - The roaring 20's, creado por estherjholloway el 30/03/2015.
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History - The roaring 20's
Isolationism
Not involved in the League of nations
Tariff Policy
Foreign goods more expesive
Encouraged foreign governments to also
Mass Production: Background
Huge resources
Growing population, immigrants willing to work hard
Mass Production
Henry Ford's Assembly Line
Produced in one tenth of the time
Price of cars went down. Wages went up
Consumer Industries and Advertising
Household goods - vacuum cleaners & washing machines
Mail order catalogues, billboards, newspapers, radio.
credit / hire purchase
Finance
Buy shares in companies. Banks lent money
Hire purchase - pay a deposit
Entertainment Industries
Films became a national obsession
Cinemas
Hollywood became a multi-million dollar industy
Jazz Music
Spread by radio and gramophone records
Radios spread sports popularity
Rich Versus Poor
Farmers had to produce more than was needed
African Americans - lost their jobs
Not all industries benefited - coal declined due to electricity.
Children worked long hours for low wages
Segregation
The Ku Klux Klan
Although slavery had been abolished, segregation was legal in the South
They terrorised African Americans
Targeted Catholics and Jews
The courts were on the whites side
Immigration controls
Concentrate in ghettos, high crime rate
Immigrants provided cheap labour, so competition for jobs
New political ideas like communism
Jim Crow Laws
Make sure the African American people remained inferior
White comedian made fun of African American
Prohibition
After the wall street it was easier to end
Rososevelt promised to cancel the law
It made legal jobs to stop unemployment
It was not a success, impossible to enforce
There was illegal brewing
The alcohol trade was driven underground
Illegal bars opened up
Bootleggers made large amounts smuggling it
Gangs were set up forming schemes
The police didn't dare intervene
Al Capone controlled Chicago through bribary
His gang gunned 6 men
Very violent man. Seen as a celebrity
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