American People and the Boom 2/2: America, 1920–1973 - Opportunity and Inequality

America, 1920–1973 - Opportunity and Inequality - American People and the Boom. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History.

• The ‘Boom’: benefits, advertising and the consumer society; hire purchase; mass production, including Ford and the motor industry; inequalities of wealth; Republican government policies; stock market boom.
• Social and cultural developments: entertainment, including cinema and jazz; the position of women in society, including flappers.
• Divided society: organised crime, prohibition and their impact on society; the causes of racial tension, the experiences of immigrants and the impact of immigration; the Ku Klux Klan; the Red Scare and the significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons:

01 - Inequalities of Wealth - Industrial Problems within the USA during the 1920s
02 - Inequalities of Wealth - Agricultural Problems within the USA during the 1920s
03 - The Causes of Prohibition within the USA
04 - Was Prohibition more of an ‘Ignoble Experiment’
05 - Disorder and Crime - The Notoriety of Al Capone
06 - The Impact and Consequences of Prohibition within the USA
07 - The 21st Amendment
08 - Communism, Vladimir Lenin, Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
09 - Push and Pull Factors - Causes of Immigration to the USA
10 - The Experiences of Immigrants in 1920s America
11 - The Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
12 - The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti and its Significance
13 - Are Native Americans ‘American’
14 - Religious Fundamentalism and The Scopes Trial
15 - Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War and the 13th Amendment
16 - Jim Crow and ‘Separate but Equal’ in 1920s America
17 - The Rise of the KKK within the USA during the 1920s
18 - The Incarceration of the Grand Dragon and the Fall of the KKK
19 - Racial Tension within 1920s America
20 - 1920s America - A Nation of Contrasts

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