Century of Progress

What if theater was free to the public? I encourage you to go look up prices to Hamilton in order to really appreciate this concept. What if performance art was no longer limited to the few for whom it is was financially feasible to throw away a couple hundred dollars on a theater ticket. The Federal Theater Project not only made theater available to all, regardless of economic status, but also employees over 10,000 artists suffering from the Great Depression. The Federal Theater Project was…

The unbelievable news was on the radio. You had heard it but you didn’t believe it was true. The stock market had crashed. People were hysterical. The lines at all of the banks were as long as the eye could see. The people living in this time period were just beginning to experience the awful roller coaster their lives would be. In 1929 the Stock Market crashed. which led to the Great Depression. Roosevelt passed the first New Deal in 1933 and it ended in 1935. The Second New Deal started in…

Could you imagine the United States with people dying of starvation, no job opportunities with millions unemployed, houses being sold, and no way to receive money from the banks? That’s how the United States was during the Great Depression. The Great Depression started in 1929 when the U.S. stock market crashed. Chaos broke out and everyone was freaking out as to why the banks were closed. People were quickly depositing money out of the banks, and items, like cars and homes, were being sold for…

When the Great Depression hit millions of people began to starve because they could not afford the raised food prices. “One million undernourished children have benefited from the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) school lunch programs” (Ellen S. Woodward). The government created the WPA that provided millions of students in school with a well balanced meal. In just under two years 80,000,000 hot, nutritious meals were served at a rate…

The New Deal-Half Successful The Great Depression began on 1929 made the whole country in the dark-age. Countless banks failed, companies went bankrupt caused many people lost their jobs, the nation’s supply and productions diminished. Besides, President Hoover still stood his position on market needs self-recovery which led the situation worse. The New Deal, came out under this situation which was seen as the radical action to save the whole country. The new President Roosevelt called…

This poster conveys the popular belief at the time, that a woman’s primary role is in the household. The purpose of The Works Progress Administration was to employ millions of individuals for projects specifically in the construction sector. However, this poster implies that a woman had no place in the work sphere outside of the household. Furthermore, the fact that it states that…

Programs such as the National Youth Association (NYA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Social Security Act (SSA). The first source, Document 1 talks about how beneficial the NYA is. The NYA helped boost family incomes by helping teenagers make money, get a job and stay in school. It gave teenagers a chance…

The years from 1929 to 1939 were some of the hardest years to live in during American history. This time period is known as The Great Depression. After the stock market crashed in October of 1929, millions of investors were wiped out. Consumer spending began to plummet causing a domino effect across the nation. Once consumer spending began to decline so did investment which eventually led to unemployment levels rising as companies started failing. By the year 1933 the unemployment rate rose to…

Now wasn't that, just a nice way to start off the night? I just love performing in The Cotton Club. This is the only place where you can see me, Ella Jane Fitzgerald, the queen of jazz. But the best thing about performing is being able to make a difference in all aspects of entertainment. Anything from skid stat doowop to the belting of show tunes onstage to the roar of excitement over a home run is an example of what you would hear in the 30s entertainment.The 30s was the beginning of the…

The Great Depression was inevitable because of the Government’s inexperience with the affair of the stock markets. Citizens could invest into companies by buying shares. A share is ownership of that company that would have a monetary value. If the share value went up then the stock owner would receive profit, and if the stock value went down the owner would lose their beginning investment. Another big problem with stock was Insider Trading. Two or more “insiders” would exaggerate the value of…