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this is showing how fast television became popular in the U.S. after WWII. once broadcasting started in 1947, almost everyone wanted a TV, and within a few years most households had one
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haped how Americans experienced culture and shaped their identities. The Affluent Society gave Americans new experiences, new outlets, and new ways t
how did the rise of television change the way americans got news and spent their free time?
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hallenge the assumptions that “separate” was constitutional at all.
what were some of the key court cases that helped challenge antiblack laws, especially in education?
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Law and custom in the South hardened antiblack restrictions. But through a series of carefully chosen and contested court cases concerning education,
this is saying that racism in the South wasn’t just social, it was also built into laws and everyday customs but change started happening through court cases, especially around education, where people began challenging those unfair laws.
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A look at the relationship between federal organizations such as the HOLC, the FHA, and private banks, lenders, and real estate agents tells the story of standardized policies that produced a segregated housing market.
this part is explaining how the government and banks basically worked together to create segregation in housing. they used these maps to label neighborhoods by risk, but really it was based on race, since areas with minorities were marked as dangerous
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As young women pushed back against social mores through premarital sexual exploration and expression, social welfare experts and moral reformers labeled such girls feeble-minded, believing even that such unfeminine behavior could be symptomatic of clinical insanity rather than free-willed expression.
How did shifting gender norms create tension between younger women and older generations during this period?
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With white supremacy secured, prominent white southerners looked outward for support. New South boosters hoped to confront post-Reconstruction uncertainties by rebuilding the South’s economy and convincing the nation that the South could be more than an economically backward, race-obsessed backwater. And as they did, they began to retell the history of the recent past. A kind of civic religion known as the “Lost Cause” glorified the Confederacy and romanticized the Old South.
How did the “Lost Cause” help white southerners justify white supremacy and reshape the South’s image to the rest of the nation?
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For April Fool’s Day in 1878, the New York Daily Graphic published a fictitious interview with the celebrated inventor Thomas A. Edison. The piece described the “biggest invention of the age”—a new Edison machine that could create forty different kinds of food and drink out of only air, water, and dirt. “Meat will no longer be killed and vegetables no longer grown, except by savages,” Edison promised. The machine would end “famine and pauperism.”
Why do you think people in 1878 were willing to believe that technology could completely end hunger and poverty?
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a truly startling performance that signaled a bright future for the Populists. And when the Panic of 1893 sparked the worst economic depression the nation had ever yet seen, t
The economic state of the world affected the emotions of Americans. Economic depression.
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The rise of industrial giants reshaped the American countryside and the Americans who called it home. Railroad spur lines, telegraph lines, and credit crept into farming communities and linked rural Americans,
Who funded this? was it the government or was it the tax payers?
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police forces killed several workers while breaking up protesters
The amount of violence endured just for the right to protest.
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f big business relied on its numerical strength to exert its economic will, why shouldn’t farmers unite to counter that power?
what would happen to the farmers who stood up against this or united to fight the injustices? Was there any organizations?
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