1930s

1920’s did see the rise of a book musical, a show that involved a strong plot through music and lines. The innovative musical Showboat was the most popular musical of this time. In contrast, 1930’s America was faced with the Great Depression, but Broadway was not about to give in to the financial decline. The 1930’s still saw musical comedy, and light…

The Road to Welfare: America in the 1930s The decade of the 1930s is infamous in American history as a result of the nation’s worst economic crisis, the Great Depression. However, the 30s also became a time of substantial reform that led to many government welfare measures. Much of American society today has been greatly influenced by the ideas started in this time period. Specifically, the decade of the 1930s influenced American history through the increase of government power and the people’s…

Reading Response (Native Americans) Football during the 1919-1930 became a very dominant sport for the Native Americans, especially the Haskell Indian School. The Haskell Indian School was opened in September of 1884 and consisted of just 22 students, however after just one semester the student body had reached 300 students. It was a school that had only 10 grade levels and subjects that we being taught to the students were mathematics, English, home economics, and industrial training. In 1896…

1. Explain the reasons for U.S. neutrality during the 1920s and 1930s. How did ideas about neutrality change during the period from the end of World War I to the passage of the Lend-Lease Act? Be sure to include any events, terms, or people that may support your response. After World War I, all the US wanted was stability. The US did not want to focus on foreign affairs, they wanted to focus on domestic issues. The solution to this was to remain neutral during the rise of powerful leaders in…

roles. Women’s roles in the workforce is unacknowledged when it is compared to the work men do (“Sexism”). Since the Dust Bowl in the 1930 's, in the labor force, the role of women and their rights have vastly broadened and are continuing to improve in hopes that in the future gender equality is achieved to put an end to decades of oppression. Gender roles in the 1930’s, during the: Dust Bowl,…

The study of psychosurgery was revived in the early 1930s by Antonio Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist. Also by Almeida Lima his neurosurgical colleague. Monez and Lima started to experiment with the connections between the thalamus, and frontal cortices. While experimenting they reintroduced certain principles from Burckhardt’s research. With this, they developed a specific process called leucotomy. A leucotomy involves a small rod that has a wire loop on one end, to be inserted into the…

problem ever since the 1930’s when it first flared up at its highest unemployment 13 to 15 million people were without a job. This was all as a result of the great depression, what many believe was one of the worst and longest economic crisis in the United States. Before the great depression the unemployment rate was around 5%. Then during the worst part of the great depression it was at 23% it affected many people’s lives. The reason why there was a high percent in the 1930’s was because there…

States from the 1930s to today? Race has been a big problem for around forever now and I think we need to put our differences aside and be happy with one another! I think racism has definitely changed since the 1930’s. In the 1900’s colored people and whites couldn’t even use the same restrooms, water fountains or sit in the front of the bus! I think it's safe to say colored people back then weren't treated fair. First off I think race has changed in a very big way since the 1930’s. Colored…

Fashion in the 1930s was full of style and glamour. Even though people were broke, they surely didn’t dress like it. Men still dressed up nice with their overcoats and suits. Women still wore dresses and kept their hair nice. Through all the hardships, they maintained their styles. What did women wear in the 1930s? Most people will overlook fashion in the thirties because of the Great Depression, but it was full of glamour, elegant, well-tailored clothing. The fashion mainly consisted of loose…

generation were the same ages as Millennials are today, they also identified more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. The Millennial generation is somewhat more supportive of efforts to ensure equal rights than others. Women in the 1930s in fact entered between 1929 and 1945 the Great Depression and World War II utterly redefined the role of government in American society and catapulted the United States from an isolated view. Millennials, have become more detached from major…