Decade - 1920s

Answer this question… Consumers with high levels of debt could not pay their bills if they were unemployed for even a short time.

Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.

Farmers

Iron & steel, followed by food, machinery and textiles. Agriculture still surpassed any of them, though it generated only half the value of manufacture as a whole.

The natavist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans

One of the most sophisticated in the world. Was the largest steel producer in Europe (18 million tonnes) and dominated in the production of dyes, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals and electrical equipment. Had important textile, food processing, shipbuilding and was (with UK and US) major world supplier of industrial machinery and coal. Also had significant agricultural, shipping and banking industries and major R & D nation (x rays, aspirin, nitrogen fixation, diesel engine, sulphides and quantum theory)

many of labor's gains during World War I and the Progressive era were rolled back. Membership in labor unions fell from 5 million to 3 million. The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed picketing, overturned national child labor laws, and abolished minimum wage laws for women

Players in the Baseball Hall of Fame that played in the 1920s include Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, Rube Marquard, Harry Hooper, Zack Wheat, Max Carey, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Eppa Rixey, Stan Coveleski, Ray Schalk, Rabbit Maranville, Herb Pennock, Edd Roush, Harry Heilmann, Red Faber, Dazzy Vance, George Kelly, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, Sam Rice, Dave Bancroft, Jesse Haines, Ross Youngs, Fred Lindstrom, Frankie Frisch, Hack Wilson, and Joe Sewell.

In the ancient and medieval worlds, many more people were physically and mentally challenged than there are in the United States, or practically anywhere, today. There were no operations to fix club feet, or cleft palates, or heart murmurs. There were no antidepressants or antipsychotics for people who heard voices, or any hospitals for them to go to. When people broke bones or dislocated shoulders, they often were not set right and healed wrong, so that you lost the use of your arm or leg. When children didn't get enough milk, they got rickets and their legs would be weak and bent, so they couldn't walk well. Eye infections, with no antibiotics, often left people blind in one or both eyes. Ear infections often left people deaf. And even if you were only near-sighted, there were no glasses to help you see. People's attitudes toward physically and mentally challenged people were also very different then. A lot of people thought that some kinds of physical or mental differences brought you closer to the gods. Blind people, especially blind children, were often thought to know what the gods (or what God) wanted. Epileptics were also thought to be close to the gods. People who heard voices, like Joan of Arc, often became important religious leaders. Many challenged people supported their families by prophecy. On the other hand, differences that you could see, like bent legs or club feet, sometimes people thought these meant that the gods didn't like you. The Greeks, especially, thought that the gods liked bodies to be perfect. Because of this, sometimes people exposed their babies if their bodies weren't just right, and sometimes people were cruel to these children as they were growing up.

One sign that the US economy might be weakening in the 1920's was the failure of the area banks. Along with the banks failures there was an underproduction of goods due to lack of money.

Not until the very end; the stock market crash happened in 1929, starting the Great Depression.

an extremely high unemployment rate and low gross domestic production

The 19th Century was a period of reform. The impulse to combat the evils of alcohol never quite died. Temperance advocates and prohibitionists continued to fight distillers and saloon owners, and people who drank. Prohibitionists pointed out that saloons were often the local headquarters of corrupt political machines. Drinking among the working classes caused death, loss of jobs, absenteeism, domestic violence, and other problems. The Women's Christian Temperance Union turned to politics and became very influential. Many progressives adopted the anti-alcohol position of the WCTU. Many politicians also favored prohibition. Prohibitionists finally convinced enough politicians that the time was right for an end to liquor as a legal drink. It would improve the morals of the nation, help end poverty, and make life healthier for all concerned. The ban on liquor did not work because you cannot legislate morals. As someone said at the time, "Everyone is in favor of prohibition, but no one wants to stop drinking." It also failed because the government could not stop the flow of illegal liquor into the country from Canada and Europe, and illegal "hooch" gave organized crime a "shot in the arm."

Some of the popular entertainment during the 1930's was going to the movies to escape their stressful lives. Also neighbors would come together to play cards and other games. Kids from the neighborhood would make up and play games with things they could find. Sports were big too. Friends and family would play friendly football or baseball games, but professional sports weren't doing that well. Many students would spend their time studying to get a good job to succeed during those hard times. Also bands and music got pretty big too, people would go to concerts just to have as much fun as they could. Schools and communities would hold social events like dances, parties, and other activities. Hope this helped!

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My experience with entertainment in the 1930s may not be typical, but in my circles. listening to radio shows was a major pastime. There were morning shows for the "housewife" and afternoon shows for youngsters. In the evening, sitting in the living room, listening to radio shows--comedy, drama, and news--was a frequent family event.

Farm owners faced many problems firstly because of the war exports were increased but as soon as the war ended countries stopped importing from the US and there was overproduction. The US decreased the prices on crops so people would buy more of them but since it could not all be bought and eaten, overproduction remained.

American agriculture was facing competition from Argentina and Canada, some countries stopped buying from them or reduced their imports from America. Another reason that the Europeans didn’t buy the American products was the high tariffs America had placed. The prices went down so people would buy crops, but the farmers didn’t earn much thus they started producing even more crops and this also contributed to overproduction.

When the farmers didn’t earn much, they started taking loans in order to provide for themselves and when those loans couldn’t be paid back many farms were seized by the banks. This lead to a lot of unemployment and directly led to poverty and homelessness.

Between 1750 and 1900, the workplace changed a lot because of the industrial revolution. Before the late 1700, everything was done by hand, but after the development of the steam engine, almost every thing could be done by machine, powered by steam.

We have not added any new significant transportation modes since the 1900's so pretty much the same as today.

During the 1900's air and space travel were added to the list of transportation modes, car and truck use increased significantly.

In the early part of the 20th C. (especially in the West), horses and mules were still widely used for recreational and commercial conveyance. In urban centres, horse-drawn carts/carriages were still being employed by a variety of small businesses e.g. dairies, ice and fuel dealers -- in some regions even into the early '30's.

There were 16 teams in MLB during the 1920s, eight in each league. American League: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics (now Oakland Athletics), Washington Nationals (now Minnesota Twins), Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and St. Louis Browns (now Baltimore Orioles). National League: Boston Braves(now Atlanta Braves), New York Giants(now San Francisco Giants), Brooklyn Robins (now Los Angeles Dodgers), Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds.

Women received the right to vote in the United States on August 18, 1920

Women received the right to vote in the United States on August 18, 1920

The Boom was a comeback of trade in the industries/economy for America in the 1920s shortly after the First World War. They joined the war later on so they didn't lose any resources; in fact it made them extremely wealthy. The only people who didn't benefit from the boom living in American were old industry workers, black people, farmers and people below the poverty line (unfortunately because of their circumstances there were no hope for these people).

People then started relying on America for consumer goods as they had modern industries and plenty of resources. Henry Ford founded the first mass production motor car with one every ten seconds being produced off the assembly line. They put the skeleton of the car into the machine which did everything else. It was a new age of technology.

The Boom also caused new buildings to be built such as the Empire State building, at the time this was the world's tallest. This was the age of the skyscraper. Despite working in dangerous conditions with low pay the building brought in more tourists than ever before causing more money to be spent.

Their goals included terrorizing people into not becoming Republicans (what was then the liberal party), preventing interracial relationships, and preventing people of color from gaining any political power.

Conservatives were threatened by changes in society and its moral standards.

In 1918, World War I ended and in 1941, World War II began. In between the time was the Roaring 20s era (a time of economic boom) and the Great Depression (quite the opposite). During this time, the US looked inward to focus economic growth (during the 20s) and smooth out the depression with the New Deal (in the 30s). The US adopted an "isolationist" policy in which they pretty much ignored (for the most part) foreign affairs. They didn't not want to nor did they need to get involved in world politics and warfare until 1941. You know what happened afterward.

there was no economic boom at all. when the war ended unemployment jumped to over 11%. farming dropped off because there was no more foreign demand for American agriculture. America always had said that they wouldn't get into foreign affairs but as history shows they always have.

The US flag in 1920 looked slightly different from the current one. It had 48 stars which were a representation of 48 states up to 1959 when two more states were admitted to statehood.