The Collapse of the Great Nation During the economic boom of the twenties, traditional values of America wore out and, now faced with jazz age, women smoking, drinking, and wearing short shorts. The average American were busy sending their hard earned money on automobiles, household appliance, and the guessing game of the stock market, where big money was made. Those in the American dream howere bought their good with credit. As more and more products came out the more people were in debt, suddenly the economy couldn 't sustain itself any longer. On October 29, 1929 also known as “Black Tuesday” the stock market crashed triggering The Great Depression, the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. The crash affected
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Throughout the The Great Depression President Hoover was blamed for the mess, the Democratic Party quickly took every opportunity to bash Hoover for the economical crisis. After being fed up with all the talk about him Hoover quickly diverted the blame to immigrants, this caused a snowball effect. This scapegoat caused tension between natives and immigrants and immigrants and immigrants, furthermore causing race separation. Many people started creating ethnic camps where people with similar race or ethnics could join. The tension between race caused problems like in some cases whites would kill blacks employees in order to take their jobs. In fact, the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, published by U.S. History in Context, elaborates on an instance in which white unionized workers along with railroad brotherhoods “intimidated, attacked and murdered [Black] firemen in order to take their jobs” (Blackstar). Many people used scapegoating was a mean degrading peoples reputation in order to take their …show more content…
Although, both events have been put in the past, hysteria will more than likely stay with us. As long as there’s someone to blame for your problems there will be scapegoats, and hysteria. The people during The Great Depression created pandemonium and more problems than needed. They struck fear in people when people started to perform crimes like mugging and killings. Both events can be in a nutshell quickly summed up is “What you ignore becomes more” (“ T H E A C T U A L I Z E
Throughout the The Great Depression President Hoover was blamed for the mess, the Democratic Party quickly took every opportunity to bash Hoover for the economical crisis. After being fed up with all the talk about him Hoover quickly diverted the blame to immigrants, this caused a snowball effect. This scapegoat caused tension between natives and immigrants and immigrants and immigrants, furthermore causing race separation. Many people started creating ethnic camps where people with similar race or ethnics could join. The tension between race caused problems like in some cases whites would kill blacks employees in order to take their jobs. In fact, the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, published by U.S. History in Context, elaborates on an instance in which white unionized workers along with railroad brotherhoods “intimidated, attacked and murdered [Black] firemen in order to take their jobs” (Blackstar). Many people used scapegoating was a mean degrading peoples reputation in order to take their …show more content…
Although, both events have been put in the past, hysteria will more than likely stay with us. As long as there’s someone to blame for your problems there will be scapegoats, and hysteria. The people during The Great Depression created pandemonium and more problems than needed. They struck fear in people when people started to perform crimes like mugging and killings. Both events can be in a nutshell quickly summed up is “What you ignore becomes more” (“ T H E A C T U A L I Z E