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Mind Map by estherjholloway, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by estherjholloway
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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
- Foreign goods more expesive
- Mass Production: Background
- Huge resources
- Growing population, immigrants willing to work hard
- Huge resources
- Mass Production
- Henry Ford's Assembly Line
- Produced in one tenth of the time
- Price of cars went down. Wages went up
- Produced in one tenth of the time
- Henry Ford's Assembly Line
- Consumer Industries and Advertising
- Household goods - vacuum cleaners & washing machines
- Mail order catalogues, billboards, newspapers, radio.
- credit / hire purchase
- Household goods - vacuum cleaners & washing machines
- Not involved in the League of nations
- Finance
- Buy shares in companies. Banks lent money
- Hire purchase - pay a deposit
- Hire purchase - pay a deposit
- Entertainment Industries
- Films became a national obsession
- Cinemas
- Hollywood became a multi-million dollar industy
- Cinemas
- Jazz Music
- Spread by radio and gramophone records
- Spread by radio and gramophone records
- Radios spread sports popularity
- Films became a national obsession
- 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
- Farmers had to produce more than was needed
- Buy shares in companies. Banks lent money
- 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
- Although slavery had been abolished, segregation was legal in the South
- Immigration controls
- Concentrate in ghettos, high crime rate
- Immigrants provided cheap labour, so competition for jobs
- New political ideas like communism
- Concentrate in ghettos, high crime rate
- Jim Crow Laws
- Make sure the African American people remained inferior
- White comedian made fun of African American
- Make sure the African American people remained inferior
- The Ku Klux Klan
- Prohibition
- After the wall street it was easier to end
- Rososevelt promised to cancel the law
- It made legal jobs to stop unemployment
- Rososevelt promised to cancel the law
- 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
- There was illegal brewing
- Gangs were set up forming schemes
- The police didn't dare intervene
- The police didn't dare intervene
- Al Capone controlled Chicago through bribary
- His gang gunned 6 men
- Very violent man. Seen as a celebrity
- His gang gunned 6 men
- After the wall street it was easier to end
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