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Brielle F

Roaring Twenties - 0 views

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  • The use of machinery increased productivity, while decreasing the demand for manual laborers.
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      Useful information about the advancement of technology. I would use another website to get more information about these main topics
  • Science, medicine and health advanced remarkably during the roaring twenties.
  • An interest developed in nutrition, caloric consumption and physical vitality
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  • The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time.
  • The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Under any moniker, the era embodied the beginning of modern America
  • Early in the 1920s the U.S. raised tariffs on imported goods, and free immigration came to an end.
  • Amendment 18 to the Constitution (1919) had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor
  • At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy
  • The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors
  • A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
  • "Flapper"
  • In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born.
  • Technology
  • vital part
  • Henry Ford
  • The radio found its way into virtually every home in America
  • The year 1922 introduced the first movie made with sound
  • Charles A. Lindbergh`s pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 did much to stimulate the young aviation industry.
  • Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances liberated women from much household drudgery
  • New technology in the roaring twenties introduced a number of impacts on the American farm:
  • For the first time in the United States, more people were living in cities than on farms.
Gracie M

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1 views

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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. 
  • The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights.
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  • summer of 1963.
  • The changes strengthened President Kennedy's original proposal in response to the tumultuous summer of 1963,which saw several incidents of racially motivated violence across the South.  The House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation on October 26, 1963, and formally reported it to the full House on November 20, 1963, just two days before President Kennedy was assassinated.  On November 27, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson asserted his commitment to President Kennedy's legislative agenda, particularly civil rights legislation.  The House of Representatives passed a final version of the Civil Rights Act on February 10, 1964.
  • The bill came before the Senate in February 1964. 
  • Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield filed a procedural motion to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Senate began debate on the proposal on March 30, 1964.
  • Senator Edward Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dedicated his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate to the consideration of the Civil Rights Act. 
  • passed on June 19, 1964, by a vote of 73 to 27. 
  • The Civil Rights Act paved the way for future anti-discrimination legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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    Information on the Civil Rights Act
Ivy A

1930s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1930s - 2 views

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ivy 1930's timeline events

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  • ck History Month Facts American History Trip Timeline 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 197
  • Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
  • Scientists Split the Atom
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  • The Dust Bowl
  • World War II Begins
  • Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
  • 1930s
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