The America that I was born into in 1960 was still the America that had come out of the Depression and World War II with a great deal of solidarity. The tensions of the 60s and 70s still arose from our collective effort to complete a sort of joint project—trying to build what Lyndon...
Emma Goldman, the anarchist and feminist, whose political consciousness wasshaped by factory work, the Haymarket executions, the Homestead strike, the long prison term of her lover and comrade, AlexanderBerkman, the depression of the 1890s, the strike struggles of... ...
The first half of the 20th Century broughtProhibition, economic depression and war, collectively suffocating the American wine industry. It was only once significant social, cultural and economic development set in after World War 2 that things began to change. ...
The Deportation Campaigns of the Great Depression Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported. Read more Lasting Impact of World War II: The Bracero Program In 1942, the U.S. and Mexican governments agreed to recrui...
19、an Civil War21.The Emancipation Proclamation22.Abraham Lincoln23.Abolitionists24.The Ku Klux Klan25.Reconstruction26.The Westward Movement27.cowboys28.Progressive Movement29.“muckrakers”30.The Red Scare31.Characteristics of the 1920s32.The Great Depression33.The New Deal34.Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Even if Hollywood has gone into depression, it still boasts an unequalled array of sunrise industries and the most brisk venture-capital industry on the planet. The state also has an awesome ability to reinvent itself―as it did when its defence industry collapsed at the end of the cold ...
he went to work forthe New Deal, a series of programs designed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide relief to and recovery from the effects of the Great Depression. While Friedman was in favor of the New Deal overall, he was opposed to most government programs andprice controls...
UnitTwoHistory---Lesson4ABriefHistoryoftheUSA AirForceOneflyingoverMt.Rushmore AbrahamLincoln The16thPresidentoftheUnitedStates,whoguidedhiscountrythroughthemostdevastatingexperienceinitsnationalhistory---theCivilWar.InaugurationofAbrahamLincoln,March4,1861 UnitTwoHistory---Lesson4ABriefHistoryoftheUSA Lincolnmet...
America's financial markets lay in ruin by the early 1930s. More than 9,000 banks failed by March of 1933 because of the financial chaos triggered by thestock market crashof October 1929 and the worst economicdepressionin modern history.1 In March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt address...
Interestingly, after reaching a peak in 1916, the top 1% share of income began to drop, reaching a low of about 15% of total income in 1923. After 1923, income inequality began to rise again, reaching a new peak in 1928—just before the crash that would usher in the Great Depression—...