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1920s and 1930s - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Americans thought that men and women were very different
        
        Men were corrupt, women were morally pure; so they said that women would "purify' politics.
    - - Fifteen states (and Alaska) had already given women the right to vote.
      - Women believed that this was the easiest way to get suffrage.
        
        Women had suffrage in the west more so than in the east because they were more modern. Wyoming was the first state to have votes for women
    - - The 14th Amendment guaranteed all men the right to vote.
        
        One of the protests was outside of the White House, which was illegal at the time.
        
        The women protested publicly during Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
      - I think that Constitutional Amendment is the most effective strategy because it had been done before and it would cover the whole country.
  - - - The 14 Amendment was ratified in 1868, and it was the first amendment to specify male citizens only could have the right to vote.
  - - - 100 people signed the declaration: 66 women and 38 men
- - - - Relief
        
        The government tried to send relief packages to farmers especially. They also put out new jobs.
      - Recovery
        
        The government tried to make rich people to put more money in the economy. They tried to have businesses focus on people that already had money.
      - Reform
        
        There were hundreds of organizations and laws put in place to try and make it better. They also tried to regulate business products. They abolished child labour.
- - - - Not everyone had extra money, but people used credit to buy everything.
      - Credit
        
        Almost everything could be bought on credit.
        
        Credit was not actually putting money into the economy, so everything was overvalued.
        
        It created a lot of debt.
- - - - 25% Unemployment
      - Thousands went hungry
      - Many children suffered from hunger, disease, homelessness and many sicknesses because they couldn't get to the doctors.