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The economy is the wealth and resources of a country in terms of the consumption of goods and services. There were many issues with the economy in the early 1900’s like the Great depression in the 1930’s for example. However, the government worked hard to change the economy to benefit the common people. These changes impacted the economy and the common people positively.
Westward expansion helped the common people by providing a lot of land and housing for cheap(“American Progress” painted by John Gast in 1872). The painting shows an angel guiding Americans to the west, the trains are moving to the west for more business .The land meant more space for farming and factories. The factories meant more people could get jobs and make …show more content…
Imperialism was good for the common people because there was more land owned by America, and tariffs were raised so America earned more money. Farmers also had more places to sell their crops and produce. (Imperialism DBQ, doc I.).New markets in new land means farmers can send their goods to the imperialized countries and Make money from the sales(Mattern,Unit 5). The lecture states that the farmers and the factories made too much produce for America to consume. Imperialism would help the issue by importing goods to the other countries fixing the over stock of food and manufactured goods. The Land that is owned by America also makes room for more businesses and …show more content…
A high school education became a requirement for getting jobs in the 20’s so there were more schools being built(Mattern, Post, War America). There were new jobs available from car factories to acting and farming. African Americans that wanted to get away from the Jim Crow Laws in the south they went to the north to work for Henry in his car factories or other factories(lecture). African Americans also started Defining themselves and expressing themselves through art like paintings, music, poetry and theatre. When cars started becoming more common, Most companies started caring less about how the car performed and payed more attention to how the car looked. In 1927, Henry Ford made a functional car that also looked cool, it was called the Model T. He also paid his workers $5 per day which was abnormal for most factory jobs in
The economy is the wealth and resources of a country in terms of the consumption of goods and services. There were many issues with the economy in the early 1900’s like the Great depression in the 1930’s for example. However, the government worked hard to change the economy to benefit the common people. These changes impacted the economy and the common people positively.
Westward expansion helped the common people by providing a lot of land and housing for cheap(“American Progress” painted by John Gast in 1872). The painting shows an angel guiding Americans to the west, the trains are moving to the west for more business .The land meant more space for farming and factories. The factories meant more people could get jobs and make …show more content…
Imperialism was good for the common people because there was more land owned by America, and tariffs were raised so America earned more money. Farmers also had more places to sell their crops and produce. (Imperialism DBQ, doc I.).New markets in new land means farmers can send their goods to the imperialized countries and Make money from the sales(Mattern,Unit 5). The lecture states that the farmers and the factories made too much produce for America to consume. Imperialism would help the issue by importing goods to the other countries fixing the over stock of food and manufactured goods. The Land that is owned by America also makes room for more businesses and …show more content…
A high school education became a requirement for getting jobs in the 20’s so there were more schools being built(Mattern, Post, War America). There were new jobs available from car factories to acting and farming. African Americans that wanted to get away from the Jim Crow Laws in the south they went to the north to work for Henry in his car factories or other factories(lecture). African Americans also started Defining themselves and expressing themselves through art like paintings, music, poetry and theatre. When cars started becoming more common, Most companies started caring less about how the car performed and payed more attention to how the car looked. In 1927, Henry Ford made a functional car that also looked cool, it was called the Model T. He also paid his workers $5 per day which was abnormal for most factory jobs in