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Great Depression Dbq

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Exam #2 October 29, 1929, a date that will never be forgotten in the United States for it was the day that the “Great Depression” began, also known as “Black Tuesday—when the American stock market–that had previously been moving swiftly upward for about ten years suddenly crashed, causing the U.S to plummet into the most severe economic downturn known to this date. In 1931, the rate of unemployment was at its lowest as almost a third of the population was jobless. Until Franklin Roosevelt also known as FDR campaigned for office in 1933 and became the thirty second President. FDR quickly began to alleviate the horrendous economy. His plan was to provide stable jobs and assist the many suffering people in the economy. For more than eight …show more content…

These employees were forced to work long hard hours which management would make up day to day including the pace that the employees were told to work. For many working in the industrial field was not the job that anybody wanted yet Americans were forced into these horrific labor factories because there were no other jobs available. Eventually this extreme amount of abuse became unbearable for many employees who led to strikes and workers’ demanding civil liberties and the desire to be part of a union became greater. The other lifestyle for many Americans during the great depression was to be a Tenant Farmer. When it came to farming there were two kinds of farmers a sharecropper and a tenant farmer. Tenant famers lives were a lot more self-regulating than the life of sharecroppers. According to Eric Foner in “Give Me Liberty”, Sharecropping is defined as a “type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless workers—often former slaves—farmed land in exchangefor farm supplies and a share of the crop”. Since sharecroppers no longer owned there own farms they were forced to become part of the employees of tenant farmers. Tenant farmers were the populous who ran the big farms in the south and since they also didn’t own the land they farmed on it was easy for them to be in complete control over the crops that they worked on. Tenant farmers had to be responsible for all required goods, they were also given the

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