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USA 1919-1939

By Noelia Sánchez
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    USA 1919-1939

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    Prosperity in the 1920's

  • Insolatism

  • The motor industry began

  • Racism in the USA

    There were many Americans who did not like the changes that were taking place in the 1920s. Some of these people wanted to purify the USA and return it to some imaginary American ideal. They formed themselves into two groups. One was called W.A.S.P.s and campaigned legally to stop immigrants coming into the USA who were not white, Protestant or from Western Europe.

  • The Ku Klux Klan

    The Ku Klux Klan
    Membership of the Ku Klux Klan rose to around 5 million during the 1920's. Joseph Simmons, leader of the Klan, described the organisations views as:"We exclude Jews because they do not believe in Christian religion. We exclude Catholics because they owe allegiance to an institution that is foreign to the Government of the United States."

  • The Ku Klux Klan declined

  • The organized crime and prohibition

    The people turned more and more to criminal activity, organized criminals such as the American mobsters and European crime syndicates.
    Alcohol was seen as the devils advocate and banning the substance would help improve the quality of American lives.

  • Wall Street Crash/Black Tuesday

  • The Great Depression

  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected

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    The New Deal

  • The Social Security Act was passed

  • The Wagner Act

  • The Works Progress Administration

  • The Second World War started