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history - roaring 20s
LACK PANTS
Lassaiz-faire
No interference attitude - kept taxes low, gov didn't interfere w business growth
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Advertisement
Good adverts, more thing bought
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Share confidence
High confidence, more shares,
prosperity
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tarrifs
president wilson put tariffs on foreign goods so american goods were cheaper and helped american industries
Contrasts
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71% of families in 1929 had national income of below $2,500 (minimum needed for decent standard of living)
Discrimination
Red scare
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Many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology
Sacco and Vanzetti
Were never inplicated in violence, but were convicted of 1st degree murder and executed as they were Italian and anarchist
KKK
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Lynched, murdered, beat and raped African Americans
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Native Americans
NA children were forced to go to boarding school where they were brainwashed of their tribal identity
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Culture
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Prohibition
Organised crime
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Gangsters operating from cities controlled the trade. They supplied the booze, set up speakeasies and ran 'protection rackets'
Volstead act, January 1920 - 1933
Before the act came into force on the 17th of Jan, rich people bought lots of alcohol
Started in late 19th Century, many poverty-stricken homes suffered through alcoholic activities of fathers
Many Alcohol brands were German, so people went dry to support America
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