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| "Fordism" Pros and cons of fords impact on america |
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Pros - Moving Assembly lines, inovation, mass productions
Cons - banned unions, anti-semetic, values were displaced |
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| Changes in american industries |
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| Mass production, machine made standarized parts, moving assembly lines, scientific management |
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| automobile impact other industies |
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| other industries simulated Home buiding and cervice stations were booming |
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| Describe the birth of the radio and motion pictures industry |
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732 stations
20,000 movie tickets
crystal sets |
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| control of an entire industry by a few firms |
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| Factory or buisness employing workers wheter or not they are union members |
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| employement agreements binding workers not to join a union |
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insures pensions, vactions, medical insurence.
paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing managemnt responsibility for employee well being |
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| what happened to wages after 1923 and how did this threaten economic prosperity |
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wages stabilized
threatened preoperity
dangerous because not raising wages they can'r buy the products they are manufactoring |
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| 5 sick industries in 1920's |
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Local mining
textile
garment manufactoring
railroad
american agriculture |
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| What led to congress loosing intres in womens issue |
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| because women did not vote as a bloc, but according to their social and econimic status. |
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| What did the 1920 census reveal about americans living paterns |
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| urban nation, upper midwest and northeast |
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| what were some of hte effect of the great migration |
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black forced to live in older parts of cities
discrimination
elect black polititions in NORTH
chicago 1919 wost race riot after war |
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| What method were used by advertising industry to encourage consumers to buy |
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newspapers bilboards radios, ridicule older models , focus on the home
installment buying became important ... started with cars |
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Divorce rates going up
Ciggarett comsupmtion going up
Hem lines going up
Respect ofr elders going down |
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| SOme authors of the lost generation |
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Gertrude stein
f scott fitzgerald
ernest hank
sinclair luis |
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| what groups were targeted under National Origins act of 1924 |
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| Prohibition supporters and opposers |
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Protanst - support
Immigrants - oppose
Women - support
German/Irish - oppose
Fundalmentalists - support
Organized crime - support |
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| OUtlawed by Kellog Brand Pact |
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