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Am. Domestic Policies in 20 Cent.
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9th Grade
11/30/2011

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nativism
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1920s favoring interests of citizens over immigrants
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red scare
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1920s fear of communism
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Ku Klux Klan
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1920s against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and Immigrants
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Installment purchase
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1920s buying goods on credit
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prosperity
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1920s
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auto: affordable for the 1st time
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1920s
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women get the right to vote
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1920s 19th amendment
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flapper
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1920s "modern women"
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Harlem renaissance
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1920s the awakening of the African American culture
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prohibition
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1920s prohibited manufacture, sale, transportation of alcoholic beverages 18th amendment
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bootlegger
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1920s sold alcohol illegally
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speculation on the stock market
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1920s buying stock on credit is speculation
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stock market crash
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1920s stocks plummeted in value
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dust bowl
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1930s droughts, heavy wind buried homes and farms
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Franklin Roosevelt
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1930's created the new deal
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New Deal
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1930s would fix the depression and consisted of the 3 rs
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Social Security
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1930's provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance if they died early
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WPA
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1930s works progressive administration: provided work projects
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CCC
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1930s civilian conservation corps gave jobs to young people,
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the 3 R's
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1930s relief, recovery, reform read into depth
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draft
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1940s 18-45 men to fight in WWII
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rationing
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1940s giving limits on food to all people
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internment camps
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1940s Japanese moved farther east from the west coast so they could not help Japan in WWII
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WWII
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1940s
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Wartime Mobilization
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1940s
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growth of suburbs
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1950's areas outside city
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conformity of values
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1950s all media had good values
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McCarthyism
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1950s fear of communism conspiracy
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Space Race begins
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1950s Russia had first satellite launched
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Segregation ruled unconstitutional
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1950s Brown v. Board of Education
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prosperity
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1950s
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Dr. Martin Luther King
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1960s and 70s change laws peacefully without violence
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Sit-Ins and freedom riders
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1960s and 70s would sit where they weren't suppose to and people went down south and helped colored sign up to vote
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African American Militancy
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1960s and 70s violent groups
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Women's Liberation Movement
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1960s and 70s feminism, the movement to obtain equal rights for women
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Roe v. Wade
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1960s and 70s right to abortion in first trimester
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Counter-Culture Reformation
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1960s and 70s young people adopted spirit of rebellion, challenging American society and materialism
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Hippies
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1960s and 70s experimented with drugs and adopted new fashion trends
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Protesting Vietnam War
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1960s and 70s they were over there for a long time and we weren't doing good
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