America Opportunity and Inequality
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in 1913, ford created the first…
production line
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in 1927…
one car was produced every 10 seconds
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average wages rose by…
11\.1% and average working hours fell by five hours a week
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in 1921 there has been 1 registered radio station…
by the end of 1922, there were 508
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hollywood produced…
800 films a year
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100 million cinema tickets were sold a….
year
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by 1929 there were how many women in paid work?
10 million (24% more than 1920)
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the volstead act was introduced in…
1920, enforcing prohibition
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what percentage did alcohol consumption reduce
30%
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how many murders were there in 1926-27
130, no arrests
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how many african american were lynched during 1919-1925
300
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when did KKK peak
in 1925 at 4.5 million
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by 1924 how many immigrants were the USA accepting?
150,000 per year as opposed to 500,000 before 1914
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how many people were admitted into hospital in NYC due to malnutrition?
238
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american exports fell from $10 billion in 1929 to…
$3 billion in 1932
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more than 2.5 million…
farmers had migrated to the west coast to look for work
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==F==ederal ==E==mergency ==R==elief ==A==dministration
provided soup kitchens, nursery care and blankets for the poorest
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==H==ome ==O==wners ==L==oan ==C==orporation
recused around 20% of american mortgages
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==N==ational ==R==ecovery ==A==dministation
controlled industry and boosted wages
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==P==ublic ==W==orks ==A==dministration
build schools, dams, bridges and airports, creating millions of jobs
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==C==ivillian ==C==onservation ==C==orps
gave unemployed young men low paid work in convervation, helped around 2.5 million under 25s.
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==A==gricultural ==A==djustment ==A==dministration
set quotas for farm production and gave machinery to farmers
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==T==ennessee ==V==alley ==A==uthority
built damsn and irrigation channels on the tennessee river which created jobs, prevented erosion and made land more fertile for farmers
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in 1930s how many people owned radios?
28 million homes
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how much money did lend lease bring home?
$10 billion of goods
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14 million americans worked in…
factories producing war goods
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how many workers did Genral Motors take on?
750,000 new workers
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the percentage of women in paid employment increased from…
35% in 1941 to 50% in 1944
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60% of managers said that…
their best workers were women
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in 1948 less than 1% of people in america owned a TV…
by 1958 83% of household did
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elivis presley had over…
170 hit records
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the bus company’s profit fell by…
65% due to the bus boycotts
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in 1956 the supreme court…
ruled that segregation on buses was illegal
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august 1963
200,000 african americans and 50,000 white americans marched to washington to hear kings dream speech
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1964 civil rights act
made it illegal to discriminate against people in housing and emloyment
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1965 voting rights marches
only 2.4% of african americans in selma, alabama were registered to vote this march was desgigned to stop this.
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1965 voting rights act
allowed states ensured that voting took place properly, also removed reading tests as qualifications
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1968 civil rights act
stopped discrimation in housing based on race, religion, nation of origin or gender
