What fueled the consumerism of the 1920s in the U.S.? Did the 1924 Immigration Act help cause the Great Depression? What caused the immigration to America in the 1800s? What was a result of the bank failures that followed the stock market crash in 1929?
What happened in the 1930's in America? What was the beatnik movement? What was the Crisis of the Third Century? What was the Edwardian Period? What caused the labor movement of the 1930s? What is a beatnik? What gains did the women's movement make during the 1920s?
Here's what happened to the 15 republics in the decades after the USSR’s disintegration. Russia After the Soviet Union dissolved, its preeminent republic endured political dysfunction and struggled to privatize its central command economy. While oligarchs accumulated great wealth, most Russians faced ...
Back home, the Immigration Act of 1924 allowed immigration visas for 2% of the number of people from each nationality in the U.S. according to the 1890 census. The act neglected to include visas for any immigrants from Asia, making it illegal for them to cross the U.S. shoreline and ...
What happened to discourse? From a Facebook post this morning by me: I’m a long-time (now-ex) moderate Dem who did not vote for Trump but recently registered GOP for reasons—I’ve never liked unions or our unthinking PC ‘parrot’ culture & love free speech—unrelated to Trump. But...
This association was strengthened in the imagination of the general public just a few decades after the statue's completion, with the immigration waves of the early twentieth century ... especially since the statue happened to be the first sign of America seen by those immigrants sailing into th...
"This is the nicest thing that's happened to me since you went away." This exchange took place on July 27, 1941, between the Cartons in Britain and their two children in Canada using a radio link-up similar to this. In summer 1940, it was expected that the Germans would soon invade...
Near Hannibal's unofficial "front door," just east of the 79/61 interchange. And, I would like to add at least what seemed to be a dangerous intersection, if only because we saw everything that happened because it was right outside our front door....
Soc (2012) 49:76–83 DOI 10.1007/s12115-011-9504-x SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY Getting What You Don't Deserve Philip Perlmutter Published online: 2 December 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Whatever happened to the old American belief that people be evaluated on their ...
The United States was founded by immigrants. Throughout its history, various legislative measures have helped to sculp immigration policy best suited for the country. In the latter 19th century, President Harrison opened Ellis Island as an immigration station....