Truman - Regional, ethnic and social divisions

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What was the South like in America?
Predominantly agricultural, legal, economic, social and political inequality with blacks
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What was the North like in America?
Contained industrial cities, expanded thanks to wartime defence industries
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Which areas were more open to change in America?
Great urban centres such as New York
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What was the direction of mass migration in America?
From the agricultural South to the industrial North and from South and East to West Coast cities
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Although WW2 helped to decrease prejudice amongst different ethnic groups, which groups still suffered prejudice?
Catholics, Jews and ethnic minorities
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What were four examples of wealth variation in America?
Exceptionally rich, very rich, reasonably comfortable, very poor
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How many workers went on strike, demonstrating tensions between the rich and poor?
4.6 million
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What did Congress pass in 1944 to aid returning military personnel through free vocational training, higher education and low interest loans for home buying and new businesses?
The GI Bill of Rights
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