1930s

entertainment. Such elements of culture have been especially important when the nation is struggling, much like it was during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It was at this time that the underprivileged of America were forced into debt and economic decline, causing them to turn to popular culture for a distraction from the turmoil being faced. The 1930’s in America was a time of economic distress and chaos. Unemployment rates skyrocketed as citizens were dragged into debt, and people…

1920s to the 1930s, life for American citizens changed greatly. In my opinion, this was a time period where there was a tremendous change in the society. There are many similarities and differences between these two periods even though the economy in the 1920s was completely different from the economy in the 1930s. Between these two time periods, America was affected socially, economically and politically. The way people were living during the 1920s was much better compared to the 1930s because…

Therefore, the 1930’s halted progress for women in the work force. When The Great Depression hit, women's role in the workplace was quickly changing. Women's place in society as working women was still heavily frowned upon. The jobs women could choose from would be clerical workers, teachers, nurses, telephone operators, and domestics largely found work. So while in the 1920 women's employment rate doubled from the war the number quickly shrunk back down due to 24% of employed women in the…

During the years 1920 to 1939 life on the prairies had been very tough and difficult to live in due to the extremely tough economic times and climatic impact around the area. The most dominant factors of the cause are, the drastic climate change, the grass hopper plague and prices of products falling significantly low. In 1931, humongous Dust storms began. The dust-storm left every crop field empty and destroyed. As stated in the text “the wind would polish your hand if you left it out long…

Living, or even growing up during the 1930’s wasn’t exactly considered the best of all the times. Americans all throughout the country had to deal with the Great Depression, an economic disaster caused by multiple things like the crash of the stock market. Although the children of this economic disaster shouldn’t have been affected by this, this crash was so horrible that it did get them involved with this “mumbo jumbo.” Along with the kids being involved, family roles had been massively altered…

they turned the sky black and they killed lots of animals. The areas mentioned were hit by hundreds of the storms. The storms destroyed land and crops, forcing people to move. Together these storms made one of the worst natural disasters. From 1900-1930 it was popular to buy plots of land and farm there. Crops were already hard to grow, but it got worse when there was a drought in 1931 that lasted until 1935. For five years farmers had no luck with crops causing them to have little to no…

As the 1930’s approached the nation, the Great Depression rattled not only the economy, but had created apparent separated affects between classes of Americans, and some of this divide persisted into the Second World War. The effects of both events affected everyone from African Americans, to Jews, and wageworkers to labor Unions. Above any other groups, ethnic groups and immigrants endured significant hardships due to white hostility. With an increasing want for government provision from…

What Caused the Dust Bowl? In the 1930’s, there was a horrific time in U.S. history that left a part of the U.S. in the dust. The Southern Plains area of the United States from Texas to Oklahoma panhandle was the hardest hit of the Dust Bowl. A few years passed, then the country was hit with the Depression. This was very difficult for the farmers in the Southern Plains of the United States, because they were hit the worst. With hardly any precipitation it was difficult to get the crops to…

Baseball in the 1930s When the Great Depression hit, it affected the money American people had. This really affected baseball. Ticket sales were the main money source for owners of teams and with less people coming to the games, they had to find new ways to get people to come. There was many changes to the sport in the ‘30s. The 1930s was an important time for baseball. Even with the Depression, the Golden Age of Baseball continued (Banks). With the impact of the Depression,…

The dust bowl: A Tragic Time in America (1930’s) The dust bowl was a horrible event for people because it was a severe dust storm that greatly damaged the environment, also a severe drought industry. What is the dust bowl you might think it's dust in a bowl but it's not it's a period of dust storms that damaged people's lives and economy also a severe drought to cause a failure to dryland pretty much to make an erosion on land. Farmers over planted and overgrazed their lands, they also failed to…