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highly racist full length film
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guiz drinkin iz bad for u leik totes stahp / Prohibition of alcohol / Volstead Act of 1919 enforced it because having written down on one piece of paper obviously wasn't enough
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All unions in Seattle and 65000 additional workers including the AFL and IWW demanded higher pay for shipyard workers / Mayor Ole Hanson believed it to be a Bolshevist uprising and called for federal troops
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wave of bombings made the theat of radicals in US appear real / 30 mail bombs / Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
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70% of Boston's policemen went on strike seeking the moolah / Gov Calvin Coolidge called the Nat'l Guard because public safety should not be at risk
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AFL attemted to organize the steel industry / strike was portrayed as a communist movement so all the strikers looked like communistic a-holes
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Ended open immigration with a limit and quota system
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Italian anarchists and athiests who dodged WW1 draft were convicted of killing 2 peeps in a robbery in Massachusetts
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reduced immigration by a tinkly wee bit because the 1921 Immigration Act was thought of as weak
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Fundamentalists challenged Darwinism / High school bio teacher got in troubles for teaching evolution / wtf come on guys
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Charles Lindbergh
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designed to help farmers help themselves
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Highest peace-time barrier in USA history / increased from 38.5% to 60% / upset foreign coutries
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14,000 unemployed veterans marched on Washington and Hoover had them removed
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Gave the Treasury Department the power to open sound banks after ten days and to merge or liquidate unsound ones
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FDR experimented to find what works
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CCC / employed 2.75 million young men in outdoor gov't camps for outdoor projects
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total of 10,951 failed banks
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AAA / attempted to eliminate low prices by paying farmers to reduce crop acreage
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FERA / gave $3 billion to states for dole payments or wages on work projects
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TVA / intended to reform the power monoply of utility companies by building hydroelectric power plants in TN valley
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HOLC / refinanced mortgages on about 1 million non-farm at low interest rates
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NIRA / biggest attempt to get US industry back on track / Section 7(a) workers were formally guaranteed the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing / Yellow Dog contracts were forbidden
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Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) so that individual deposits of up to $5,000 were federally insured
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PWA / created by NIRA / granted money to the state and local gov't to provide wages for public projects
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repeal of prohibition
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FHA / spurred the building industry with small loans to homeowners
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SEC / designed to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation of the stock market
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court ruled regulatory taxation provisions of the AAA as unconstitutional
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WPA / employed nearly 9 million people for public projects
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REA / provided loans and WPA labor to electric cooperatives to build electric lines to rural areas not served by private companies
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court ruled NRA unconstitutional
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Reasserted the right of labor to engage in self-organization and to bargain collectively through representatives
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Provided old-age pensions for retired workers / provided federal-state unemployment insurance
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attempt by FDR to remove old conservatice justices
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Set miniumum wage and 40-hour week