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The United States, 1919-1941
Causes of the Economic Boom (1920's)
Consequences of the Economic
Boom (1920's)
Industries in decline (1920's)
Problems in Agriculture (1920's)
The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition and Gangsters
Racism and Intolerance
Causes of the Wall Street Crash
Consequences of the Wall
Street Crash
The impact of the depression
The Nature of the New Deal
Opposition to the New Deal
Was the New Deal a Success?
The USA, 1945 - 1975.
The Red Scare
Impact of war on Civil
Rights
Civil Rights in 1950
Brown v Topeka Board
of Education
Little Rock
High School
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery
Bus Protest
Martin Luther
King Jnr
Nation of Islam / Malcolm
X
Black Panthers
Ku Klux Klan
March on Washington
Civil Rights Acts
Immigration Act,
1965
Rights for Hispanic
Americans
Student Protests of
the 1960's
Womens Rights
Issues faced
by Native Americans in the 1970's
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The
United States at the start of the 20th Century
Between 1850-1914, 40 million people emigrated to the USA.
For most the journey was hard and consisted of two weeks in the cheapest
class of travel with little or no privacy.
There was also no guarantee that they would be allowed in!
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1902. From
Wikipedia.
Why America?
Overcrowding in Europe.
Lack of Opportunity.
Unemployment.
Persecution.
America offered escape from these.
Who were the Americans?
Immigration had made the USA a very mixed society.
America was like ‘a melting pot’.
The idea was that the immigrants lost their old identity and became AMERICANS!
Old Immigrants. These were the first European settlers from Britain, Germany
and Scandinavia. Their descendants tended to hold the best jobs, the most
money and political power- WASPs.
Native American Indians. These people originally lived across the whole
of the continent. Between 1850-90 they were forced off their land.
By 1917 many Indians lived in reservations across America.
Black Americans. In the C18th and C19th millions of Africans were brought
to America to work as slaves. By 1920 there were 11 million Black people
living in America.
Southern and Eastern Europeans. In the late C19th most new immigrants
came from Russia, Poland and Italy. Many were Jews and Catholics.
Hispanics
Asians
Relevant Links
Ellis
Island Immigration Centre. The Wikipedia entry for the Ellis Island
migrant centre.
Immigration
to America. Eyewitness history's account of immigration into the United
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