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Secondary History : USA: 1917-1941

Clip description		Keywords
	American attitudes to immigrants Duration: 04:57 Testimonies from American immigrants about the attitudes they encountered on arrival.	Europe, struggle, acceptance, trouble, unwelcome. racism

	Black urban life in Harlem, New York Duration: 04:17 Discussion about the migration of black people to New York.	New York, money, work, opportunities, Harlem, renaissance, independent, black people, black banks, business, jazz, poetry, literature, rent, party, whiskey, prohibition, Marcus Garvey

	Depression photographs Duration: 02:06 Photographs and music of migrant farmers.	depression, photographs, dustbowl, migrant, farmers, south, west, drought, music

	Did the depression bring blacks and whites together? Duration: 03:59 A discussion of civil rights and the first signs of change.	government, civil, rights, change, hostility, marching, CIO, union, strike, picket line , hatred, USA, American

	Did unemployment divide America? Duration: 02:21 The impact of the depression on race relations and the divide in America.	discrimination, poverty, hardship, unemployment, urban

	How cotton farmers suffered Duration: 03:39 Moses Austin a cotton sharecropper describes the hard times that farmers endured.	cotton, debt, sharecropper, crops destroyed, depression, pests, Wall Street Crash, depression

	How life was different for people who lived in the countryside Duration: 04:04 Alice Fairweather, a poor farmer's wife discusses the difficulties people faced when living on a farm in the countryside during the depression.	powerless, prohibition, incomes, over production

	How the Wall Street Crash affected local communities Duration: 04:09 Mary O'Keefe describes the effects of the crash and how people thought hard times wouldn't last long.	crash, depression, unemployed, economy, local, debt, wall street, wall st

	Immigrants discuss their new lives in America Duration: 05:00 Testimonies of immigrant's new lives in America.	differences, language, culture, business, success, migration

	Immigration to America Duration: 04:47 Testimonies from people who emigrated to America.	trade, Jew, money, language, freedom, New York, America, Ellis Island, new, prosperous, rich, exports, steels, immigrants

	Life as a sharecropper Duration: 02:43 The testimony of Walter Coachman a Baptist pastor whose parents were sharecroppers.	sharecroppers, education, school, read, write, math, advantage

	Living conditions of people living during the crash Duration: 04:20 Testimony from a homeless man about the hardship of the depression, and the church's role in giving charity.	thrift, hopeless, dignity, eroded, charity, welfare, rugged individualist, Hoover, shameful

	Racism in Southern America Duration: 04:17 A discussion on how black Americans dealt with racism, the segregation and the threat of violence behind the racist hierarchy.	traditions, faiths, unkindness, racism, unjust, dignity, opportunities

	Tennesee Valley Authority Duration: 04:19 The story of Lorena Hickok a supporter of the Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA).	controversial, cheap, electricity, federal, monopoly, social experiment

	The Boom in the 1920s Duration: 04:14 A discussion of the good times in early 1920s America.	business, assembly lines, prosper, wealth, labour, consumer, goods

	The end of Hoover's administration Duration: 03:49 Three people give their testimony of what is was like in the hard times during Hoover's administration.	1932, Hoover, re-election, veterans, farmers, unemployed, individualists, rugged, bonus, army, troops, government, injustice, inequality, help, suffer, breadline, fight

	The New Deal Duration: 03:19 An illustration on how the Work Project Administration assisted people gain employment and how the New Deal helped the economy.	unemployment, provide, depression, hope, concerned.

	The Wall Street Crash Duration: 03:20 Testimony from a banker who witnessed the Wall Street economy crash which caused the Great Depression.	Wall Street, 1920s, stock exchange, investors, prosperity, boom, Herbert Hoover, plenty, savings, crisis, recession, recovery, economy, capitalism

	Unemployment in 1930s America Duration: 04:16 How the depression in 1930s American affected a town called Newburyport.	1930s, unemployment, depression, Hoover, ragged, rugged, individualists, Roosevelt, crisis, solve, administration, loans, homeowners, relief, job, creation, schemes

	Was life any better in the north for black people in early 20th century USA Duration: 03:22 Evelyn Macon and Elmer Thomas give their testimony of what it was like to be a black worker in North America during the depression .	hardship, north, south, long, hours, controlled, whites, complain, pleasure, singing, tensions, bosses

	Was the American Dream realistic? Duration: 04:46 An illustration of the down side to the American Dream.	business, prosper, rights, struggle, hard times

	Was the New Deal a success? Duration: 04:21 Testimony of Nannie Carson a WPA worker, who helped to educate the poor.	WPA worker, New Deal, proud, independent, courage, hardships, medical, attention, children, serious, obligations, teach, read, 1936, Roosevelt, re-elected, impact, economy, depression, threatened, free trade, vision

	What went wrong in 1920s America? Duration: 05:00 The causes of the Wall Street crash of 1929 happened and its impact on ordinary people.	divided, Hoover, 1920s, happy, boom, credit, spend, profits, crash, debt, failure, banks

	Who was responsible for the less well off? Duration: 04:36 A discussion of people's reactions to the New Deal and how Roosevelt changed the policy.	WPA, taxes, low, wealthy, charity, socialist, capitalist, New Deal, reductions, responsibility, 2nd World War, depression, welfare, system

	Why did people want to emigrate to America? Duration: 02:56 A discussion of the lure of the American Dream for immigrants.	colour, immigrants, poverty, peasant, class, opportunity, religious, political, persecution, New World, prosper, money.

	Would it be possible to assimilate cultures? Duration: 04:25 A testimony of immigrants lives in America.	Ellis Island, tests, limiting, second, world, war, Wilson, freedom

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