Growing Up In The 1920s
The period of the 1920s was widely regarded as an era of prosperity. There was social, political, and cultural change.
The city life was difficult as a farmer in the 1920s. “Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well”. The stock markets crashed so that led to unemployment. Which wasn't good for the farmers at all. It wasn't good for the farmers because without work they would go bankrupt. When they go bankrupt they wouldn't have enough money to pay for their crops and food. Their crops would sell for much less money, so therefore they wouldn't get enough money to feed their self let alone to plant more crops. “ Many families did not have money to buy things, and consumer demand for manufactured goods fell off. Fewer families were buying new cars or household appliances. People learned to do without new clothing. Many families could not pay their debts. some young men left home by jumping on railroad cars in search of any job they could get. …show more content…
The way that children were raised are different than how we are raised now in many different aspects. Back in the 1920s children had a hard life. They had to work as much as an adult but they would only get paid half or even as little as a fourth of what the adults got paid. “By 1935, over two million children, nearly 20 percent of the youth population, were working. Children as young as six or seven worked alongside their parents and sometimes their grandparents and great-grandparents. One of the most brutal farm jobs for children during the depression was picking cotton. While children working at machines could eventually do almost as much work as an adult, they would receive one-third to one-quarter of the pay, from three to six dollars a week for a fifty- to-sixty-hour week” (Yancey 33). Their life was cruel. They were more or less being punished by today's
The city life was difficult as a farmer in the 1920s. “Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well”. The stock markets crashed so that led to unemployment. Which wasn't good for the farmers at all. It wasn't good for the farmers because without work they would go bankrupt. When they go bankrupt they wouldn't have enough money to pay for their crops and food. Their crops would sell for much less money, so therefore they wouldn't get enough money to feed their self let alone to plant more crops. “ Many families did not have money to buy things, and consumer demand for manufactured goods fell off. Fewer families were buying new cars or household appliances. People learned to do without new clothing. Many families could not pay their debts. some young men left home by jumping on railroad cars in search of any job they could get. …show more content…
The way that children were raised are different than how we are raised now in many different aspects. Back in the 1920s children had a hard life. They had to work as much as an adult but they would only get paid half or even as little as a fourth of what the adults got paid. “By 1935, over two million children, nearly 20 percent of the youth population, were working. Children as young as six or seven worked alongside their parents and sometimes their grandparents and great-grandparents. One of the most brutal farm jobs for children during the depression was picking cotton. While children working at machines could eventually do almost as much work as an adult, they would receive one-third to one-quarter of the pay, from three to six dollars a week for a fifty- to-sixty-hour week” (Yancey 33). Their life was cruel. They were more or less being punished by today's