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The Great Depression

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Exam 2 (Wed)

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A Decade of Prosperity 1920s

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1925

• 1 car for 3 people

• L.A.: most motor-conscious

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1926 CA Highway 101 Highway 66 (1926-1985)

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1920s suburbs

• Pasadena

• Glendale

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L.A.

• Edison

• Hollywood

• Weather

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_YRnuuKyY&feature=related

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Progressive Era

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1911 CA

Women Suffrage

• Women’s Freedom

Charleston Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJC21zzkwoE

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1920 The Flapper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgJ79PetAQ

• Prohibition

• Eighteenth Amendment

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1925 Torrance PD http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the-nosh/del-monte-townhouse-speakeasy-venice.html

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1925 TJ

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"Los Tequileros"

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The third day of November, What an eventful day! The rangers from the other side, killed three from Guerrero.

They left from Guerrero with anis-flavored tequila, the direction they were taking was toward famed San Diego.

When they arrived at the Rio Grande, they stopped and thought: "We better bring Leandro, because there are only two of us."

They asked Leandro to go with them, but Leandro said he could not: "See, I am sick, and I don't want to go this way."

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• San Francisco Earthquake 1906

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrB_oI4FovA

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• San Francisco Graft Prosecution 1907 – Abraham Ruef, S.F. city boss

• Hiram Johnson 1911-1917

–Initiative, referendum, recall

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Owens Valley-Los Angeles Aqueduct • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbebOhnCjA

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1936 Hoover Dam

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COLORADO RIVER

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• The Election of 1928

A 1928 campaign poster for the Republican ticket

Of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis

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– On October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) the stock market crashed.

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– Land speculation bubble in FL & CA

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– Unequal distribution of wealth & Agriculture recession – http://www.cbpp.org/research/top-1-percent-of-americans-reaped-two-thirds-of-income-gains-in-last-economic-expansion

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– Stagnated sales of consumer goods

Sales of new autos stagnated after 1926

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– Fall in the Stock market – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXNziew6C9A

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– The Depression transformed American life.

Unemployed men lined up at the New York

Municipal Lodging House in 1930

A Hooverville

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• CA Great Depression 1930s

– Governor “Sunny Jim” • 1933 defended a lynch mob

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– Aimee McPherson • Mixed religion with entertainment

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftqumRF9Sh4

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– The 1930s also witnessed severe drought, creating the Dust Bowl.

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1930s rise in xenophobia

Watsonville Riot

Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935

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1930s Repatriation – Groups: local officials, business community, U.S. federal authorities in

the Labor Department, Mexican government

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