America

• 1930s- new deal


  Roosevelt

  • The new deal was made in response of the grease depression from the wall street crash
  • Unemployment in 1933 was at 25/
  • Business closed down
  • Bank problems - as they were irresponsible
  • Problems with agriculture
• 1930s - new deal


  4 key ideas

  • End of employment
  • Better banking
  • Support for the vulnerable
  • Improving farming and factories
• 1930s- new deal


  Emergency banking act - shut down all banks and only opened the responsibility ones after 4 years
• 1930s- new deal


  AAA- Agriculture Adjustment Admin

  CCC- Civilians Conservation Cops

  TVA- Tennessee Valley Authority

  HOLC- Home Owners Loan Corps

  NIRA- NRA- National Recovery act

  PWA- Public Work Admin
• 7 categories

  rich white Americans

  women

  farmers

  african americans

  young and old

  immigrants
• the fordney- McCumber tariff

  he made it expensive to import food so food grown in America was preferable so farmers could gain money
• 1920s - why did it become rich

  • natural resource
  • mass production becomes cheaper
  • spent money that goes into the economy
• 1920s - spent money


  radio

  • august 1921 there was only one station called KDKA
  • by the end of 1922 there was 508

  music and dance

  • jazz became popular with the youth
  • older generations saw jazz as a bad influence
  • charleston, rhythmic, sexual moves
  • dance marathons

  sports

  • baseball- yankees and red socks
  • boxing- 1921 £1.5 mill to see two people fight
  • football- earning £100,000

  cars

  • gave people freedom
  • feared it would lead to moral recline

  cinema

  • golden age of cinema
  • all movies were silent till 1927
  • 100 million e tikets were sold every week
• 1920s - push and pull factors


  push- overcrowding, difficult for uneducated people to improve their situation, out of work, economic depression

  pull- room for expansion, land was cheap, natural resources, employers needed labourers, business opportunities, better wages, escape persecution,
• 1920s red scare


  racist attitude to immigrants

  fear of communism

  race riots against eastern Europeans in 25 towns

  radicals uprised and soon shut down

  after many minoritys were accused of communism

  by late 1920 10,000 individuals had been rounded up and deported
• 1920s- immigration act of 1929


  in direct responce of the ear of radicals the government restricted immigration

  the system made sure most immigrants entering america came from the north west of europe and limited the southeast

  1910- over 1,000,000

  1029- 150,000
• 1920s - Sacco and Vanzatti


  immigrants from Italy

  executed in 1929

  known anarchist and hated capitalism

  THE TRIAL

  • 15th April 1920 Fred Parmenter was attacked by 2 armed men who got away with £15,000.
  • 5th May 1920 Sacco and Vanzetti got arrested for murder
  • judge Thayer and lasted 45 days
  • the evidence used was fabricated
  • verdict was guilty and sentenced to death
  • riots ment the case was taken higher up but the verdict was the same even after 6 years and were sentenced to death by the electric chair on the 24th August 1926