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History USA Depth Study, 1919-1948 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Reasons For Economic Boom in the 1920s
        Laissez Faire Republicans
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        Position After WW1 (Good compared to the rest of the world)
        Assembly Lines
        New Consumer Goods
        Tariffs
        Share Confidence
  - - - Groups That Benefited: Urban Women, Many people experienced economic boom
        
        Women Benefitted Because of
        
        1921 Sheppard Towner Act provided maternity Care
        
        New Consumer Goods made household chores easier, Women had greater freedom and more time for work and leisure. Found work in fields like stenography.
        
        Gained the vote, meant more polices and politicians that benefitted women were able to be enacted. Groups like the League of Women Voters helped women vote effectively
        
        Boom Cycle
        
        Tariffs on foreign goods encouraged americans to spend on american businesses. As such...
        
        People Had more money to spend.
        
        Rise in consumerism, people spent more at businesses
        
        Businesses had more money, meaning they could expand
        
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        The Republican Presidents of the 1920s (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) cut taxes and had a "Laissez Faire" policy. This meant people had more money to spend. As such...
      - Civil RIghts Groups
        
        NAACP
        
        Set up by W.E.B DuBois, fought directly for civil rights, campaigned against Lynching. Still exists today. Early members included Black and White intellectuals. Aimed for equal rights for all. Mainly used the legal system, and speeches to campaign.
        
        UNIA
        
        Set up by Marcus Garvey. Aimed to help African Americans live a good life, and set up businesses. End goal was essentially to go back to Africa to escape racism. Shut down when Garvey was arrested after investigations into one of his companies.
    - - Groups That didn't benefit: Black People (Resurgence of KKK in the 1920s), Coal Miners (Rise in electricity meant less need for coal), Rural Women (Changes in urban areas were slower and less likely to affect rural women), Farm Labourers
      - Resurgence of the KKK
        
        After the film "Birth of a Nation" in 1919, the KKK began to grow again in popularity. They opposed anyone who was not a WASP, and denounced those such as "wife beaters", meaning joining appealed to many.
        
        As such, in the 1920s, there was a huge rise in Racist attacks such as Lynching. Groups were set up to help Black Americans such as the NAACP and UNIA.
      - Black Tulsa Riots. After a black teen bumped into a white woman in an elevator, she cried rape and the teen was arrested. Things then escalated, and the nearby town of black Tulsa, filled with black people living the American dream and known as "Black Wall Street" due to its prosperity, was firebombed, and African Americans were violently murdered. The area has never recovered.
      - Wall Street Crash: After a decade of buying on the margin, the stock market crashed on black tuesday, sending america into a great depression. They Immediately recalled all foreign loans as a response, and mass unemployment was rampant.
      - Red Scare, Huge distrust in communists and anarchists following the Russian Revolution. Sacco and Vanzetti are an example, they were Italian anarchists unjustly given the death penalty by a judge proven to be biased. Afterwards, quotas restricted the migrants that could enter the US to only western Europeans, and totally banned Asian migration.