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50+ essay plans for Edexcel A-Level history in search of theAmerican dream- route 1F
Over 10,000 words with examples and evidence
American dream:
,How accurate is it to say that the American presidents were “do-
nothing” presidents in the period 1921-1933?
Rugged individualism
People taking responsibility for themselves, self-resilience despite
poverty
Didn’t regulate working hours, minimum wages, loans, businesses
(child labour)
Immigration restriction- 1921 emergency quota act (3%)
Hoovers response to GD
Bonus army episode
Agricultural marketing
Hawley smoot tariff (40%) exports
RFC
Isolationism
Did not join the league of nations / were heavily involved in foreign
affairs
Didn’t restrict business from trading with other countries- profit over
morals
Fordney Mccumber act- buy American
Were republican ideas the main reason for the fact that there was
a republican president and a republican majority in Congress in
the years 1921-31? (20 marks)
Republican ideas
Normalcy, isolationism, lassiez faire
Individualism, voluntarism
League of nations
Democratic failures
Absent president- league of nations
Federal government intervened bringing in federal taxes, a sedation
act, 5 million men were drafted into the war
Postwar there were economic problems, race rivalries, flu pandemic
(600,000 dead) and Wilson was in Paris
, 1924- brawls
1928- catholic
Economic reasons
Cutting taxes
higher purchases (use of credit)
stock market
tariffs on imports, Fortney McCumber tariff act "buy American"
How far do you agree that it was hoovers policies that lost in the
1932 presidential election? (20 marks)
Hoovers policies
Hawley-smoot tariff (1930)- buy American
$47 million loans to support farmers- 25% still lost land
RFC- $2 billion loans to banks
Great depression
Hoovervilles and economic difficulties
Bonus army episode
Roosevelts campaigning and propaganda
Vague new deal
End to prohibition
Roosevelt's validity (governor of NY)
Charismatic public image
How accurate is it to say that “rugged individualism” was the
main influence on presidential policies in the 1920’s?
Rugged individualism
People taking responsibility for themselves, self-resilience despite
poverty
Didn’t regulate working hours, minimum wages, loans, businesses
(child labour)
Immigration restriction- 1921 emergency quota act (3%)
The red scare
, 1919- 350,000 steel workers went on strike
Comintern- Lenin that promoted revolution (American communist
party)
The palmer raids (Attorney general A. Mitchel palmer’s house
bombed by an anarchist
The great depression
Bonus army episode
Agricultural marketing
Hawley smoot tariff (40%) exports
RFC
How far do you agree that the impact of the northern migration
(1917- 32) can only be considered in terms of the migrants
themselves and the cities they move to? (20 marks)
Nothern migrants
Significant political influence- mayor for Chicago 1919 listened to
black people
Segregation meant more black people got in power as a black
American campaigning in a black ward would get the whole of the
black vote
Segregation communities with their own facilities
Southern migrants
The labour force shrank- harder work for less people
Poorer farmers suffered the most economically and most were black
Thought that the black people that stayed were excepting of the Jim
crow laws
White people
Black migrants dislodged white workers campaigning for better
conditions
Businesses put pressure on white workers to leave unions or lose
their jobs
How accurate is it to say that black Americans suffered just as
much discrimination in the North and West as in the south 1917-
1932?
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