The Cause Of The Great Depression In The United States
-Once the war ended many had lost their war related jobs. There was a numerous of people left; many veterans were returning home unemployed and on top of that a stalled economy. Many people were moving north to escape the rural poverty. These issues that were occurring was going to cause great conflict in the coming days. Americans started to fight back and began demanding that the government start making some changes and bring back the economy there once was. Everything that had been achieved during the war vanished. After inflation began rising it was taking the very little source of income they had Americans wanted to see a change to try and achieve that they went on a strike, a strike that so large it shut down the city. It was claimed
to be “Bolshevik effort to start a revolution”
-The Red Scare caused unusually harsh measures to be taken, like the Espionage Act of 1917, which made criticism of the government illegal. It even exceeds the assault on civil liberties during the war. It had homegrown causes: Postwar recession, labor unrest, terrorist acts and etc.
An example what would occur was dozens and people started to receive bombs in their mail which was a act of terrorism.
-Laborers felt they were the ones affected the most by the war so they resented the upper class. It was no longer an honor to dress to impress or even be a lot of money. Laborers were also unified with the upper class through nationalism, leading to a breakdown of the class system.