Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Great Depression:

The setting of "To Kill A Mockingbird" occurs during the 1930's. Research the Great Depression and post any interesting findings.   

26 comments:

  1. In the 1930s about 6,000 people walked around the streets of New York selling apples for $0.5 each.

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  2. It started black Tuesday 29, 1929 when the stoke market crashed. People weren't buying things. The dust bowl. There was nothing but Racism .

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  3. In the 1930s many of the banks closed by the market going down, Roosevelt was president at the the time, farms turn dust, people live in streets, and people where racist to each other.

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  4. Average of 600 banks failed every year
    The tax rate lowered 25 percent
    Herbert Hoover becomes President.
    unemployment rises to 15.9 percent.

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    1. Well most people were trying to get there money out of the banks.

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  5. On October 29 1929 is known as the Black Tuesday. The Black Tuesday happen when the stock market crash, Wall Street crash, and million mar went penny less the next day.

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  6. * The Great Depression peaked between 1932 and 1933.
    * Some 6,000 street vendors walked the streets of New York City in 1930 trying to sell apples for 5 cents each.
    * Because the circulation of money was so low, the U.S. didn't mint nickels in 1932 or 1933.
    * The biggest hit song of 1932 was "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

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  7. The stock market didnt return to pre-depression levels until 1954

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  8. during the Great Depression, the Great Plains were hit hard with both a drought and horrendous dust storms, creating what became known as the Dust Bowl.

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  9. The Great Depression ruined life for pretty much everyone in the 1920s-30s. Everyone had an impact on this situation. Buisnes went down, people lost their jobs,and even their homes.

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    1. That is sad how they lost everything because of that.

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  10. In the Great Depression many people didn't have as much money. In 1929, the stock market crashed. That was the beginning of the Great Depression.

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  11. During Great Depression the country was hit with an extremely large unemployment rate, by 1932, over 13 million Americans lost their jobs.

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  12. Farmers could not grow any crops in the 1930's and if they could it was very little of food they could grow. And in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president and promised to end the great depression

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  13. During the Great Depression many people lost their jobs. Because of that people were on the move traveling to find a job. Their jobs did not pay much to the workers.

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  14. time of low unemployment when general prosperity masked vast disparities in income people needing money and when it crash the day was called Black Tuesday,” Oct. 29, 1929

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    1. That is vary interesting wear did you get that?.

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  15. In 1930s may banks were closed because of the everything was turning bad like the farms turned to dust

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  16. Most people would walk from town to town trying to find jobs better mostly wasted their time because there was hundreds of people applying for the same job.

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  17. The Great Depression in the 1930 is sad because everything went down and people lost a lot of money because of the stock markets went down. People lost jobs and couldn't afford nothing no more for there family they had to live in the streets.

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  18. In the 1930's many of the banks closed, (every year banks failed)

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  19. -In New York City in 1930 trying to sell apples for 5 cents each. -homeless families camped out on the Central Park in New York City. -2.5 million people had fled the Great Plains. -they borrowed $4.00 or $10.00 from the bank and to buy stock.

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  20. The Great Depression was a world wide economic crisis there was also racism steel the African American had to pay a little more then others

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  21. The 1930 were a perilous times for public education parent had trouble getting there kids thing for school

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  22. The great depression was tragic and hert everybody in a way it was a world wide clamps.

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