America After The Great Depression

America was not the land of opportunity. During the Great Depression which was when the stock market crashed and many people were not able to make money or have jobs. Because of the Great Depression “Unemployment jumped from less than 3 million in 1929 to 4 million in 1930, to 8 million in 1931, and to 12 1/2 million in 1932 [and]... a quarter of the nation's families did not have a single employed wage earner” (Notes). This made it so America’s economic opportunity was lost because of how many people had lost their jobs and that 25% of the country’s families did not have anyone who had a job. After the Great Depression the New Deal was made to help fix the issues that were caused by the Great Depression. One part of the New Deal was the NRA (National Recovery Administration) which ended up setting “wages in most industries well below what labor demanded, and large occupational groups, such as farm workers, dell outside the codes' coverage” (National Recovery Administration (NRA)) (National REcovery Administration)(OHL). …show more content…
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the US did not trust the Japanese-American citizens and put them into camps called internment camps. Morgan Yamanaka was a man who was in a Japanese internment camp said how “There was no question of refusing or resisting that order” (Morgan Yamanaka Interview, Copyright 2001 Smithsonian Institution). Because of the Japanese-Americans were sent to camps their social opportunity was impacted because there was an increase in racism against Japanese and they had lost their trust from the other American citizens. The Mi Lai Massacre was a massacre of Vietnamese citizens by American soldiers. One American soldier stated how he “cut their throats, cut off their hands, cut out their tongues, scalped them. [he] did