The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State

What The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State covers

The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State is examined in Paper 1, Period study with non-British depth study. It covers the US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’; prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictions; Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudice; the economic and social effects of the Great Depression and government response; the Second New Deal; the mobilisation of the US people for the war effort; the social impact of the war; the Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forces; and the state and the American people, 1919–1948.

The 9 subtopics

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• The US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’The three Republican presidents, laissez-faire and rugged individualism, tariffs and tax cuts, Ford's assembly line, hire purchase, booming and declining industries, farmers and other losers, the Nineteenth Amendment, Alice Paul's campaign and the Sheppard-Towner Act.Open →
• Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictionsThe temperance campaigners, the Eighteenth Amendment, speakeasies and bootleggers, why prohibition was abandoned in 1933, the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the immigration quotas of 1921 and 1924.Open →
• Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudiceThe Jim Crow Laws, the beliefs, targets, strength and decline of the Ku Klux Klan, the NAACP and its methods, the Dyer Bill, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, Back to Africa, the Black Star Line, Garvey's fall and why little had changed by 1929.Open →
• Economic and social effects of the Great Depression and government responseBuying on the margin, unemployment and bank failures, Hoovervilles and the Dust Bowl, Hoover's response, the 1932 campaigns and Roosevelt's landslide, the Hundred Days, the banking rescue, and the AAA, CCC, FERA, NRA and Tennessee Valley Authority.Open →
• The Second New DealWhy Roosevelt launched new reforms in 1935, the Works Progress Administration, the Social Security Act, the Wagner Act, the Resettlement and Farm Security Administrations, business and radical critics, the Supreme Court quarrel and the results.Open →
• The mobilisation of the US people for the war effortPearl Harbor, the Office of War Information, Rosie the Riveter, war bonds, industry's switch to weapons, the War Production Board, the end of unemployment, presidential power, price and wage controls, the draft and public opinion.Open →
• Social impact of the warRationing and victory gardens, wartime taxation, housing shortages, divorce, women's war work and what followed it, Executive Order 9066 and the internment of Japanese Americans, and the war's foundations for civil rights.Open →
• The Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forcesRacial tension in wartime Detroit, the rioting of June 1943 and its end, Black Americans in the segregated forces, the Tuskegee Airmen, Executive Order 8802 and Randolph's threatened march, and Truman's desegregation of the armed forces in 1948.Open →
• The state and the American people, 1919–1948Republican aims in the 1920s, Roosevelt's three aims, the new agencies, the growing reach of Washington, the states' role, the poor, women, youth, Black Americans, persecuted groups, party support, wartime unity and the sources.Open →

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Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

• NAACP vs UNIA

  NAACP: body founded in 1909 that fought discriminatory laws through the courts and lobbying. UNIA: Marcus Garvey's movement for racial pride, separate businesses and a return to Africa.

• Eighteenth Amendment vs Nineteenth Amendment

  Eighteenth Amendment: 1920 ban on making, selling and transporting alcohol, enforced by the Volstead Act. Nineteenth Amendment: 1920 change stopping states from refusing women the vote.

• Emergency Quota Act vs Immigration law of 1924

  Emergency Quota Act: 1921 limit on each nationality of three per cent of its 1910 numbers. Immigration law of 1924: tighter limit of two per cent based on the 1890 census, barring most Asians.

Questions from this topic

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1. 1

   Which three Republican presidents held office in the United States between 1921 and 1933?

   Model answer

   Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.

2. 2

   What did the Republican belief in laissez-faire mean for business?

   Model answer

   Government interfered as little as possible, leaving companies free to run themselves with few regulations.

3. 3

   What was meant by ‘rugged individualism’?

   Model answer

   The belief that people should succeed by their own hard work rather than rely on help from the state.

4. 4

   Which two tax and trade measures did Republican governments use to protect and encourage American business?

   Model answer

   High duties on foreign goods under the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922, and large cuts in taxes on companies and wealthy Americans.

5. 5

   How did Henry Ford's assembly line change the making of cars?

   Model answer

   Each worker repeated one task as the car moved past, so cars were built far faster and the Model T became cheap enough for ordinary families.

6. 6

   How were many Americans able to buy expensive goods such as cars and radios in the 1920s?

   Model answer

   By hire purchase, paying a deposit and then instalments, encouraged by heavy national advertising.

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What does The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State cover in OCR GCSE History A?

9 subtopics: the us economy and women in the ‘roaring twenties’, prohibition, the red scare and immigration restrictions, jim crow, the ku klux klan and attempts to combat prejudice, economic and social effects of the great depression and government response, the second new deal, the mobilisation of the us people for the war effort, social impact of the war, the detroit race riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forces and the state and the american people, 1919–1948. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State organised?

By the OCR J410 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.