IGCSE the USA revision

By ruihong0.0

  • slavery abolished

  • Period: to

    jim crows law

    black people are separated

  • Anti-Saloon League set up

    Urge to ban alcohol
    claimed it led to crime, insanity and unreliable workers, caused family divorce

  • Niagara Movement

    set up by W.E.B Du Bois

  • NAACP National Association for the Advcancement of the Coloued People

    Found by W.E.B Du Bois
    to ensure equality, eliminate prejudice

  • starting of moving assembly line

    starting of mass production

  • Set up of UNIA, the Universal Negro Improvement Association

    set up by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica
    self-efficient nation in Africa, later in the US, then he got arrested after claiming himself as the president.
  • Period: to

    WWI

  • Ku Klux Klan reformed

    Against black, Jewish, immigrants, Catholics, left-wings
    basically a terrorist group
    reformed by William Simmons

  • 18th amendment to the United States of Constitution

    banned manufacturing, transport, and sales of alcohol, started to impact several states

  • Workers went on strike

    meant communist? the red scare?

  • The American Legion

    Set up by WWI soldiers, urge to pass laws against immigrants, communists

  • letter bombs

    30 letter bombs sent to important people in USA

  • Anarchists bigger bombs

    caused media hysteria

  • Treaty of Versailles

    American President wanted Germany to rebuild, therefore thought that the treaty was too harsh
    did not join the League of Nation

  • Start of Prohibition

    Prohibition agents set up to catch illegal crimes committed about alcohol
  • Period: to

    Sacco and Venzetti Case

    2 men killed 15777 stolen
    they are anachists
    carried guns, it has the same type of bullet
    61"eyewitnesses"
    --however no clear evidence, caused protests all over US
    finally executed

  • Sacco and Venzetti arrested

    as title

  • 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution

    give woman equal and full suffrage

  • Emergency Quota Act

    3% immigrants from any country according to census

  • Emergency Tariff Act

    Wheat, sugar meat, wool, agricultural good

  • Budget and Accounting Act

    Control government spending

  • Revenue Act

    cut individual tax and war tax, rise business tax

  • Fordney and McCumber

    raise tariff on industrial goods
    give president the power to rise tax every year

  • Immigration Act

    2% 150 000 a year

  • setting up the African Orthodox Church

    by Marcus Garvey

  • the monkey trial

    high school biology teacher John Scopes put on trial found guilty and fined 100 dollars for teaching evolution.

  • Sacco and Venzetti executed

    as title

  • St Valentine's Day Massacre

    7 people killed by the Bugs Moran by Al Carpone's Gang in Chicago
    No one arrested

  • Wall Street Crash

    Stock Market of New York Started to fall, everybody rushed into banks to get their money back but the banks were also involved in the stock Market, so banks and companies went bankrupt.

  • Hays Code

    No picture should be produced that will lower the moral standards(of the movies audiences)

  • end of ban for teaching evolution

    the law against teaching evolution is scraped