HIST258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: National American Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt, Second New Deal
11 Sep 2016
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The early years of the great depression. Margaret sanger, new york call, birth control league. Intensified by migration and job competition. 1920s union membership dropped: 5. 1m in 1920 to 3. 6m in 1929. The red scare:the russian revolution triggered fear of communism in much of the western. Only 70,000 were members of the u. s. communist party / communist labor party. Mitchell palmer: edgar hoover, federal bureau of investigation (fbi) The automobile: the steel horse with a drinking problem . Steel, rubber, glass, tools, oil, road, infrastructure, suburban housing, Homogenization achieved through mass-media technology: radio and cinema. Cinema tickets sold: 1922: 40m: 1930: 100m. Nicaragua (1912-33); dominican republic (1916-24); haiti (1915-34) National women"s party (nwp: alice paul. 18th amendment (volstead act, 1919: prohibition bureau, 21st amendment (1933) replaced 18th, outlaws the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol. Bootlegging became rampant (speak easys) (illegal drinking becomes cool) New technologies having issues with cars, thomson machine gun, protection racket,
