HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: 1973 Oil Crisis, Mexican Americans, Tejano
26 Aug 2016
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Women"s role was to create the next generation but not hold office or work outside the home etc. But by the 1920"s this started to change. In colleges or in high schools: by the 1920"s, if you were going to climb to the top rng of society you needed at least high school education. Not everyone finished high school by 1920 and a relatively small number finished college at this time. Oil, agriculture, banking, insurance, and construction4urban and suburban growth. This didn"t raise tuition costs but lowered them to almost flat. Assassination of jfk, dallas, texas, november 22, 1963. When he was shot the entire city of dallas was labeled a far right wing, lunatic place. Arab oil embargo and the rise of opec. Nostalgia for a rural past or urban cowboys. Myth of 1970"s was that somehow long ago taking money didn"t mean you were making money. People all lived near people of their same class.
