Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

This was due to a fear of losing money during future economic issues. This recession in the economy resulted in a decrease of items produced by companies, thus reducing employment. "As a result, Canada's gross domestic product per capita dropped to thirty-four per cent." ("The Great Depression hit Canada") Lack of consumer purchases reduced the profit of many factories, companies, and industries. In order to increase profits, companies needed to spend less money. So, they laid off employees,…

J.k Rowling said, “We are all human, aren’t we? Every human is worth the same ,and worth saving.” This quote is relevant because many people got injured, sick or even died because they were involved in the Industrial Revolution. I do not think the results of the Industrial Revolution were worth the human cost. Dying and getting injured is not worth it. Three reasons why I do not think it was worth the human cost is: people got very ill, people got injured, and men, women and children were…

President Richard Nixon left office with dull presidential approval ratings. The decades since haven’t really helped restore his public image. But Nixon started his presidency with strong approval ratings, with a comfortable majority approving of his performance. That early strength, continue at least through the end of 1970, means that his average average across his whole presidency wasn’t that bad compared to other post-World War II presidents. It wasn’t great, either, but Jimmy Carter, Harry…

destitution. Since their savings had gone, and low employment demands, result in many Americans lost their homes across the nation. Especially Americans in the South, where most of their incomes were depending on crops. Farmers were hardly making money due to many factors, such as loans that their own from their previous crops, pile of unsellable crops in their inventory, and Europeans demand for American crops/goods declined. Although America was one of the country…

The 1920s in the United States were a decade commonly known as the “roaring” 20s. However, while the 20s was a fantastic era, there were many reasons not to call them “roaring,” as well. For farmers, it was a time of poverty and hardship. The Ku Klux Klan grew massively in the 20s, anti-immigration was a popular shared feeling among many Americans, and the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial divided the country into those who believed in modern science, and those who followed tradition and…

In the book, The Great Depression and World War II Organizing America, 1933-1945, author Gerald Nash provides an overview of life before the Great Depression. Some of the aspects included are Americans reaching for wealth, diminishing poverty, and the rise of the industrial age. Businesses were flourishing, and many Americans obtained stocks. However, the stock market prices declined until the Stock Market crash of 1929 which set off the Great Depression. With an economic downturn, Americans…

Dear esteemed members of the committee of the Righteous Hall of Fame, In your quest to find a new Hall of Fame inductee, I offer up a viable candidate: The American Temperance Society. At a time of uncontrollable drunkenness, the American Temperance Society worked to do what seemed impossible, to restrict alcohol consumption. Many women and church members found the effect of alcohol on American at the time very unsettling and therefore worked to form the American Temperance Society. By forming…

Dorothea Lange’s Life Dorothea Lange was a famous photographer during the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange lived an interesting childhood. Lange took many popular pictures during the Great Depression era of different people. In addition even during Lange’s final years of life she still had a very fascinating life style. Dorothea Lange was an interesting person and a skillful photographer because, she had an interesting childhood, was a famous photographer during the Great depression, and a…

The collapse of the stock market propelled the United States into the Great Depression this had a drastic impact on average Americans. Some families were thrown out into homelessness or on the brink of losing their homes. Unemployment rates were overwhelming high forcing many Americans into starvation, homelessness. Countless letters were sent to President Roosevelt between 1934 and 1936. These letters express the misery and poverty American people were enduring on a daily basis. Based on these…

an economic depression, known as the “Great Depression”. Americans were getting laying off, leading people without money, jobs, family member, food and shelter. Forcing companies and industries to go down the drain.This excessive amount of complication came along after the “Great Crash”. Black Tuesday as we call it, was a day the New York Stock “Market” Exchange crashed on Wall street. Before the “Roaring Twenties” came to an end, the Stock market was a place where you can buy a margin. A margin…