Society and Culture

• League of Women Voters was set up to encourage voter registration
• A job that changing industries created for women in the 1920s was typing pool work
• The Wall Street Crash occurred in October 1929
• Some people thought the Women's Bureau hindered women because it pressed for minimum wage and maximum working hours, potentially restricting pay
• During the Depression, for every dollar a white man earned, a woman earned 61 cents
• In 1936, 82% of men thought married women shouldn't work, in 1942 this figure was 13%
• A suburb is an affordable home in commutable distance from cities
• In 1960, there were 19 million more people living in suburbs than in 1950
• One long-term effect of suburbs on cities was that inner cities went into a downward spiral/ghettos
• Eleanor Roosevelt worked with JFK to look at the status of women in 1961
• They discovered that the Equal Pay Act was badly needed and needed enforcing, plus there was discrimination against women on the basis of pay
• The Civil Rights Act included the term 'Sexual Equality'
• Betty Friedan's book was called 'The Feminine Mystique'
• The first national women's group set up was The National Organization of Women
• ERA stands for Equal Rights Act
• The magazine that spread news about all women's groups was the Voice of Women's Liberation Movement
• The 'strike of women' occurred in 1970
• NOW's membership increased by over 50% after the strike
• Conservative groups called Women's movements 'un-American'
• Abortion was federally legalized in 1973
• The Equal Rights Act could be seen as a failure as it was never passed
• US attitudes to immigration changed after WW1 due to isolationism, The Red Scare, Anarchists, and the perception of 'wrong' type of immigrants
• In 1921, the Emergency Quota Act was passed
• It is estimated that 400,000 Mexicans were deported during the Depression
• The majority of Henry Ford's workforce came from Eastern Europe
• Two ways Ford tried to 'Americanise' his workforce:

  • English language lessons
  • Flying the American flag
• Japanese, Italian, and German immigrants were classed as enemy aliens at the start of WW2
• 120,000 Japanese people were put in internment camps
• Shops with German or Italian sounding names had windows smashed
• The problem with the quota system was that it didn't help refugees or those fleeing communism
• President JFK was a firm opponent to the quota system
• Asian immigrants were mostly coming from Vietnam and Cambodia between 1965-70
• Operation Wetback was the name of the operation to deport Mexican immigrants
• 1 million illegal immigrants were found and deported in 1980
• The music hit that accompanied FDR's campaign to be President was 'Happy Days Are Here Again'
• FDR's radio talks were called Fireside Chats
• The first talking film was called 'The Jazz Singer'
• Clara Bow starred in flapper roles and was called the 'It' girl
• Jazz was the music that became hugely popular in the 1920s and 30s
• Radio publicized election results on 2nd November 1920 before newspapers could