HIS 142 1st Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I. Late 19th and Early 20th Centurya. Jim Crowb. Votingc. Share Crop Systemd. Convict Lease Systeme. Reinforcement of White Dominancef. Spanish American Warg. White Man’s BurdenOutline of Current Lecture I. 1920’sa. Economyb. Racial ConflictCurrent LectureI. 1920’sThe 1920’s were a moment of conflict and contradiction. Many issues that occurred due to industrialization, urbanization and expansion had not been resolved. There was social conflict, religious conflict and cultural conflict. There were new ideas and attitudes about leisure activities, gender roles and sexuality. Women started wearing more revealing clothes (flappers). a. EconomyAlthough there was an economic boom, not all people were benefiting from the prosperity of the economy. The economy started to be based on consumerism but you can reach a point where a customer doesn’t always need another car, washing machine, etc., so companies are making customers think that they will need to get a the newest version of what they already have. Eventually, it will reach a point where the supply of a company is bigger than the demand of customers. When people didn’t have the These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.money to buy the newest things or to buy something they needed, they began purchasing things with credit. People even started using credit to purchase stocks and trading investments.b. Racial ConflictJohnson Reed Act put created restrictions on who can immigrate to the United States and where they can immigrate from. Only a certain percentage of people were granted citizenship from different areas of the world. Takao Ozawa (Chinese descent) filed petition wanting to be able to claim American Citizenship. After this petition, all Japanese were denied citizenship and weren’t allowed to own property, so many Japanese had their land taken away. You could only be considered “black” or “white” to be granted
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