IGCSE: USA in the '20s and '30s
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Mean things happening episode 5 (60 min.) In the American democracy of the 1930s two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowner
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The Great Depression series, including the Memorial Day Massacre from 24:58
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'Hoover undertook various measures designed to stimulate the economy, and a few of the programs he introduced became key components of later relief efforts. However, Hoover’s response to the crisis was constrained by his conservative political philosophy. He believed in a limited role for government and worried that excessive federal intervention posed a threat to capitalism and individualism.'
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'Eighty four years ago on this day President Hoover signed the now-infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which substantially raised U.S. tariffs on some 890 products. Other countries retaliated and world trade shrank enormously; by the end of 1934 world trade had plummeted some 66 percent from the 1929 level.'
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March 23, 2017 4:04 AM
'Eighty four years ago on this day President Hoover signed the now-infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which substantially raised U.S. tariffs on some 890 products. Other countries retaliated and world trade shrank enormously; by the end of 1934 world trade had plummeted some 66 percent from the 1929 level.'
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'Founded in 1894 ..., the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) advocated a literacy requirement as a means to limit immigration into the United States. Watching with anxiety as immigration increased sharply in the 1880s and 1890s, League members had lost faith in the nation's ability to assimilate newcomers into its political, social, and cultural fabric. They associated immigration with the socio-economic problems of their increasingly urban and industrialized society—crowded tenements, poverty, crime and delinquency, labor unrest, and violence. In particular, League members made a distinction between the "old immigrants" of English, Irish, and German stock and the "new immigrants" from Italy and Eastern Europe.'
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'The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. After Frances Willard took over leadership in 1879, the WCTU became one of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage.'
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'From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in American politics. Influencing the United States through lobbying and the printed word, it turned a moral crusade against the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol into the Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.'
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Silent film star Louise Brooks is featured in the color tinted artwork of David B. Pearson.
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'Silent film star Louise Brooks is featured in the color tinted artwork of David B. Pearson.'
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Racy stuff from the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino.
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Spartacus Educational page on the Palmer Raids.
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Part three of a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as
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Decent overview of the USA in the 1920s.
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'The 1920s are a period of vigorous, vital economic growth.' Some statistics and analysis produced by Gene Smiley of Marquette University, Wisconsin.
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The notorious blackface conclusion to the first "talkie," the Jazz Singer. In the effort to accept blame for producing the film but avoid negative backlash o...
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An excerpt from The Jazz Singer (1927), one of the earliest 'talkies'.
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Unlike the rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville that ended in violence, the Klan was enthusiastically welcomed by white Washington in 1925.
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'The Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its popularity when more than 30,000 members — racists and and anti-Semites marching 22 abreast and 14 rows deep – paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Aug. 8, 1925.'
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Civilian Conservation Corps and the New Deal
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The CCC, including the experiences of Blackie Gold.
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US Presidential elections made simple.
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PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series on PBS directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.
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Some useful films and sources on prohibition.
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'Featuring historic newsreels, company film footage and recreations, this documentary film tells the life story of Henry Ford, who invented mass production and transformed the automobile in to a commonplace form of transportation in the United States and eventually the world.'
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Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931)
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The anti-flapper club of the 1920s.
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Buster Keaton stunts.
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'Clips of Clara Bow's hit movie "It" (1927) set to a song written about her called 'She's Got It' by Harry Reaser.'
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Webpage of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society.
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BBC Wales providing an online resource of revision help for GCSE students.
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BBC Bitesize page on the Rise and Fall of the American economy, 1910-1929. It's reductive ... but that's the whole point!
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Detailed information on all aspects of Life in the 1920s
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A good site covering many aspects of the Roaring Twenties.
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USA 1920s: colourised film from the twenties.