America: Opportunity & inequality mindmaps

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+ discnmmation in the outcome of the trial. Recl scane. 1 inaccurate Sacco and Vanzetti + Judge described as "mintelligent" and "full of prejudice." Worldwide media attention. Accussed of robbing payroll of a shoe factory. + murder of the Owner and ↓ Both were self-confessed anarchists. ↓ Wanted to destroy the Amencan system of givemment armed grard. Jury anly took I day (of the 45) to return a guilty verdict on all charges. 2 Sentenced to death by electric chair. Links with Red Scane Rural areas for women didn't change as it was more difficult office Work 1 Economic boom in 1920s gave women more leisure time and take an avenue of ↓ Light redustry employment. Some women outraged and embardased Within Bible Belt household whist husband working states. America, 1920-73 Expected to be polite and not wear makers. Nomen were expected to fufill traditional roles. ✓ Women had proved they could work the same roles as men Many changes were confined to Flappers during www. more northem states. Attendance tv jazz clubs. 7 Housewives Call for return Ankle length Musil encouraged Divorce rate to traditional values Women were dresses were expected to be wom change for women socially. increased. still ottenly Women who worked were low-paid. Paidless. Abandoned traditional A Higheter at valves ↓ Weaning makeup į Began smoking and drinking. Shorter cking Prejudice, lack of impartiality Voting sessments, America, 1920-73 Pour. Poorly paid education Jim Crow Laws Discrimination Share acopers KKK Lynching American people & the 'bust' Hoover $2bh loans America, 1920-73 K foreigin food Increased tax on 2 Hawley - Smoot Increase in Tarrit Act 2 Retaliation homelessness Long term effects brought to America Met with businesses to my and not commit wage cuts. Average wages ↓ 60%. Cur production fell 2 by 80%. X Factories Reconstruction created jobs Finance Coperation ACA Vo forced to Lassiez-faire attitude make rechindanis + lower wages. 'Hoovervilles' scattered across Amenica. Cut taxes by $130m. Farm income was oteamatel. 20 Kansas. chemployment! Colarado, hit lyn. Arkansaus Many blamed 7 Hoover for their misfortune. Wall Street Crash of 1929 The Depression Many penced and 2 Unable to 1929654 banks talled. 711352 by 1430. werfarming pay anam acara amny withdrew their savings. Many unwilling to spend money. Affected the economy. LS t The Dust Bowl → Poor weather ✓ Years of Infertile dust Thousands of Migrated to California. tamers bankrupt. No reckless Help the suffering. investments Inspected banks ↑ Emergency Banking Act Supported with 2 govemment loany Economic America, 1920-73 Get American ^ Relief, Recovery & Refor ✓ change. AAA Paid farmers to produce less. Industry back in its feet. Increased fam prices. The New Deal Landsh de Election victory; 3Rs. K Alphabet Gave many 1 Agencies Amencans optimism and habe. У "The Brains Trust" formed (experts). CCC Employed 2m men. worked on conversation projects. NRA Set fair wages and improved working conditions. пра Create jobs for builders, 7 teachers etc. 2nd New Deal Wagner Act Protected nights it employees. Social Security Act. Pensions & benefits for vulnerable people > for jobs that men typically did. Women filled in ✓ Disposable income ↳ However, still paid less. AA Women (Nurses)< could only treat black soldiers. оссирна America, 1920-73 1/3 of all jobs. ✓ Segregated AA Women were 7 Impact of WW2 2 Many African Amencan Amenia's economy boosted T Lend Lease paid less than thei white counterparts. Solders were discriminated agamst. I couldn't frain as othcers/pilots ✓ They could by the end of The war. Britain given $7bn worth of weapons. r Programme Bulding tanks, Unemployment Tractional vates tell as America began reaming. industries boosted planes, battleships econemy due to demand. Post-war in America Destroyed people's reputations led to people < being blacklisted Joseph McCarthy Never uncovered any real evidence. America, 1920-73 claimed he Lost popularity when accusing ~40 any officers with no endence. had a list of 205 communists > 'witch-hunts' In 1949, the USSR tested their McCarthyism 6 1949: China became communist. first nuclear weapon. 1945: Communism spread across Eastern Europe. Contamment polices wee as a deterrent to prevent communism reaching America. 50 s Assasinated: led to LBJ passing his bill. Montgomery Bus Boycott ✓ Buses desegregated in Montg. x Only impactful in Montgomery Civil Rights JFK America, 1920-73 Bus. B ✓ Schools should be desegregated. X No actual deadline given. Civil Rights ✓ Planned to make all discumination Illegal. LBJ Sit Ins ✓ Desegregating of restaurants, liyanes etc. ted by the SNCC. Voting Rights Act. Freedom 60s Birmingham media highlighted The violence AA's faced: hosepiped dos attacks. Riders Civil Rights Rode on buses Washington meant to be Act segregated; mixed. "I have a dream" Pressured government to pass bill. Very vident. speech.