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1930 – The Democrats take Congress in the Midterms. Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the ...
Following the Great Depression of the 1930s, recessions—periods of slow economic growth and high unemployment—were viewed as the greatest of economic threats, which could be counteracted by heavy government spending or cutting taxes so that consumers would spend more. In the 1970s, major price increases, particularly for energy, created a ...
This timeline of modern American conservatism lists important events, developments and occurrences that have affected conservatism in the United States. With the decline of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party after 1960, the movement is most closely associated with the Republican Party (GOP).
New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964 – Economic Opportunity Act; 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of legalized discrimination against blacks and women, and ended legalized racial segregation in the United States
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) July 1903 (United States) Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads child workers in demanding a 55-hour work week. 1904 (United States) New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike. [25] 1904 (United States) United Packinghouse Workers of America. [25] 1904 (United States)
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