their families. During the depression‚ people ate whatever they could afford or whatever they could find. Some examples of food during the 1930s were: Potato soup – water base‚ not milk Dandelion salad Lard sandwiches Bacon grease sandwiches Sugar sandwiches Hot dogs and baked beans Creamed corn on toast Squirrel Gopher Entertainment Even though the 1930’s were hard times‚ even the Great Depression could not get in the way of good old fashioned
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R)Model T S)foster hewitt T)Group of seven U)Charleston V)Bennett Buggy 6) The advances in technology really made the 1920’s really boom because everyone had the money to buy the new technology like cars‚ radios‚ etc‚ but when it hit the 1930’s no
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dollars...it’s hard to fully appreciate how important the rising prominence of the University of Washington’s crew was to the people of Seattle in 1935” (Brown 173). As seen by this quote‚ America is a much different place than what it was in the 1930s. The times have changed significantly. In today’s day and age we have it all too good. The world we live in is one of leisure and not nearly as much hard work as there used to be. Back in the early 20th century the people had it pretty rough and dealt
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Why did Australia lead the world into Depression in the late 1920s and suffer its effects so gravely and for so long? Australia suffered significantly during the Great Depression of the late 1920s. Australia was one of the worst effected countries in the World. This essay will look at why Australia lead the world into Depression in the late 1920s and why it suffered from it’s effects for so long. A depression is defined as "A period of drastic decline in a national or international economy‚ characterized
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The lamp at Noon The exposition of the story took place sometime in the 1930’s‚ on the prairie farm somewhere‚ probably in U.S.A ‚ the depression drought called dust Bowl years‚ this situation mad the wife worried about her husband and her baby and their relationship‚ and she doesn’t want to live on the farm anymore. Paul‚ the protagonist‚ is farmer husband who doesn’t want to leave the farm even though he can’t meet his family needs. And his wife Ellen who represents the antagonist‚ she does
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passages and which of the two I found most persuasive. James Eayrs’ article “A Low Dishonest Decade: Aspects of Canadian External Policy‚ 1931-1939” and Norman Hillmer’s article “Defence and Ideology: The Anglo-Canadian Military Alliance in the 1930s” both explain Canada’s relations‚ or lack thereof‚ with Great Britain. While Eayrs’ viewpoint is a much more negative one. For instance Eayrs explains that “nothing was done by the Canadian Government to assist United Kingdom defence officials in
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Identification and Evaluation of Sources The Great Depression of the 1930’s was an economic catastrophe in which the American stock market crashed and citizens lost millions of dollars. Near the end of the Great Depression the movie The Wizard of Oz was produced‚ and became a groundbreaking movie about a farmer’s daughter’s search to get home after she was blown away in a twister to the Land of Oz. The time period in which the movie was produced and how well it was received raises the question: how
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a job‚ food became scarce‚ and tons of people lost their jobs. Those are some effects that the Great Depression had on Americans. One effect of the Great Depression was that a lot teens or kids left their homes and tried to find a job. During the 1930’s‚ teens or even kids‚ more than 250‚000‚ decided to hop onto trains and drift across America. Most people did this because they wanted to find a job or their families were too poor‚ but others even did it because they wanted an adventure.
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by the boom psychology and speculative euphoria of the 1920s. The Depression exposed those weaknesses‚ as it did the inability of the nation ’s political and financial institutions to cope with the vicious downward economic cycle that had set in by 1930” (“About the Great Depression”). Unemployment rose and wages fell during this time for the people who continued to work. For the businesses‚ they were all falling through because of the people not having money to buy stuff from them due to not having
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that had higher wages (O’Neal). In the late 1930s‚ a women’s annual pay was only $525 while a man’s annual pay was $1‚027‚ during the Great Depressions‚ women’s pay dropped even lower (cite this). Poor working conditions were also a continuous problem during this time‚ along with long hours. More than half of working women worked more than fifty hours per week‚ and and over one fith of wrking women had over fifty-five hour working weeks (cite this). The 1930s census stated that‚ “‘Almost eleven million
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