The Great Depression 1929-1939

THE ROLE OF WOMEN
1. 1920's
  1. Women in the 1920's were gaining freedom both socially and economically
    1. Women were smoking, drinking, skirts became shorter
    2. Women started working as teachers and as nurses.
    3. A common phrase that middle class Americans used is "buy now, pay later", lots of people were in debt
    4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd-BMhOOhg&feature=youtu.be
    5. Became common practise to have a maid (only for the affluent) so that the wife could go and live her life
2. 1930's
  1. It was easier to divorce people so lots of women were no longer tied to marriage
  2. The amount of housework increased
    1. Families could no longer afford a live in maid so women were having to do lots of housework
      1. Women had to look after the children, cook, clean, etc. This made them feel as if their role in society has become more important.
      2. Women also had to do a lot of financial work, manage the spendings whilst the husband provides the money
  3. Women could no longer have financial freedom
    1. Men were the priority sex and they couldn't get any jobs
    2. Extreme feminist beliefs returned
  4. The only job a women could really get was in a brothel
RACISM AND SEGREGATION
1. THE KKK
  1. They still exist today
  2. They had over 6 million clan members at the time
  3. They were extremely violent
    1. They would beat people to death, burn people at the stake, or shoot them.
    2. They shot a woman who had a black driver just because the driver was black. Investigators found that she was actually a very strong pro-white rights activist.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CTG58jIlNA&feature=youtu.be
2. JIM CROW LAWS (1876-1965)
  1. Black people had to pay a tax to have the right to vote
  2. It was thought of as unlawful for Black and White people to be in the same public areas
    1. A white person and a Black person cannot be buried in the same cemetery.
  3. A White person could not marry a Black person
  4. https://youtu.be/wBkRIPoVkxQ
  5. https://youtu.be/_IfLzgaJOMU
THE DUST BOWL (1930-1936)
1. Health issues were abundant during the dust bowl
  1. Cases of asthma were very common for the dust made it very hard to breathe. Dust filling the lungs is the most common way to conceive asthma.
  2. 7,000 people died due to pneumonia
2. Agricultural facotrs
  1. Human
    1. Farmers overworked the land causing the grass to no longer hold the soil, and dust, in place
    2. Farmers farmed too many cattle
    3. Farmers produced more wheat than they could sell
  2. Natural
    1. Consecutive droughts
    2. An abnormal increase in temperature
3. https://youtu.be/jQYKJaWuj0Y
THE AMERICAN DREAM
1. Pros
  1. Gives people hope that by working hard, dreams will come true.
  2. Increases the amount of people looking for work
    1. Lots of candidates to hire
  3. Helps people through tough times
2. Cons
  1. People get greedy and always want more
  2. It's a dream, not reality, never actually comes true
    1. People lose hope
  3. People are so desperate for the dream that they move
    1. Tears families apart
      1. Extreme views on femininity grew
    2. 2 and a half million people migrate to California
3. America was seen as the land of opportunities
  1. People would go there to escape their own countries, looking for a better place to live and raise their families in.
    1. But EVERYONE was looking for this land of opportunity and only a few made their dreams come true.
THE WALL STREET CRASH
1. Causes
  1. Too many products being sold and not enough people buying them.
    1. Farmers reduced the price of their food
  2. People were not money smart
    1. People invested all of their money into stocks because everyone was doing that, most of the time, they lost all of their money
  3. An abundance of small banks
    1. As wall street crashed and people started trying to take out their money, banks had already become bankrupt so people never got their money back
2. Effects
  1. 13 million people were left jobless
    1. They didn't have enough money to continue living in homes or for food
      1. Lots of people died due to exposure to the elements or of diseases caused by lack of nutrition.
    2. Industrial production decreased by 45% and building process decreased by 80%
  2. The ENTIRE American banking system collapsed
3. Investors lost $30,000,000,000 (USD)

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