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- - - - During war years
        
        The massive drift of the African-American population into the cities had transformed what had been fashionable areas into poverty-stricken ghettos
        
        They usually led a poverty-stricken existence, mainly as sharecroppers.
        
        They occupied the lowest economic position in a relatively poor region of the country
        
        African-Americans were beginning to occupy industrial and manufacturing jobs.
        
        Their only real outlet was jazz, dancing, though this was done to entertain the richer white population, and sports, especially boxing.
        
        Were thus forced to do menial labour for very poor wages
    - - Many Native American Indians endured truly miserable conditions during this decade
        
        Their difficulties were reflected in high rates of alcoholism and crime, low life expectancy, and high infant mortality.
    - - Their decade was marked by poverty, hardship, and an endless struggle against debt
        
        While mortgages were easy to obtain from banks willing to offer cheap loans, the farmers had virtually no chance of repaying them
        
        Overproduction was their main struggle
        
        Better-quality seeds, new tractors and generally high levels of borrowing to pay for new machinery, were seen as the outputs increased
        
        The problem started after the sudden fall in demand after 1929
        
        Many people were desperate for food, and they could no longer afford to pay good prices.
        
        This resulted in farm produce being sold at prices well below the actual cost of production
        
        During the war
        
        Many farmers reached the point where it was unprofitable to harvest their crops.
        
        The economic difficulties faced in agriculture created a mood of rural activism which led many farmers to form a bloc to press their interests at a national level.
        
        Their efforts contributed to the passage of favourable legislation, such as
        
        The Emergency Tariff Act
        
        The Intermediate Farm Credit Act
        
        The Packers Stockyard Act
        
        The Farm Co-operatives Act
        
        The McFadden Banking Act
        
        The War Finance Corporation
    - - During this decade there was little improvement in terms of the quality of their employment opportunities or in their pay.
        
        Even though there was an increase in the number of jobs carried out by women
        
        Women played a role as supplementary wage-earners similar to that played by children in earlier generations
        
        Women were still largely absent from the most common professions, with the exception of
        
        Nursing
        
        Teaching
    - - While big business prospered in the 1920s, trade unionism started to decline
        
        Union membership was either discouraged or employers were forced to sign “yellow dog” contracts in which employees agreed not to strike.
        
        The Red Scare of 1919
        
        Led many workers to avoid joining unions
        
        The Palmer Raids of the 1920
        
        Between 1922 and 1925
        
        The US Supreme Court passed several anti-union judgements making it difficult both for unions to strike and for the creation of a minimum wage.
  - - - In the early twenties, the agrarian and reforming lobby of both parties in Congress combined in an effort to relieve the suffering of the farmers
        
        Government action only aggravated the situation
        
        Deepened the divisions between the rural and urban areas of the country
        
        Trade unions, were helpless nor did they have the funds to provide any kind of relief for their workers.
    - - Firstly, the Republican administrations believed that social responsibility was not the job of the state except in the fields of law and order and national defence.
        
        Intervention was also perceived as a contravention of the freedom of individuals to provide for themselves
        
        Social workers and activists were pressing for reform. However, they aspired to changes that would put an end to poverty
        
        Poverty kept the poor in their place and where the poor were African-Americans, Catholics, and Jewish immigrants, this was regarded as entirely desirable
    - - The high profits created by gains in productivity had been paid out to investors whilst the workers received comparatively small wage increases
        
        Only the well-off could afford to buy
        
        As the output increased, it was not matched by a proportionate increase in consumer buying power.
        
        The only way that the less wealthy could manage to buy mass-produced goods was by taking advantage of credit facilities.
  - - - Americans went on a buying spree
        
        . Industrial production in the 1920s increased so dramatically that it was considered practically the 2nd Industrial Revolution
        
        Industrial wages, salaries, profits, and dividends rise substantially
        
        Consumer credit and the consumption level of the average American family exploded to unimaginable levels
        
        While new technology and advancements as well as sales where booming in the 1920s
        
        Not everyone was very happy
        
        The most benefitted were businessmen and those who could afford new products
      - While the number of millionaires increased, the gap between the rich and the poor became wider and wider
- - - - Unemployment never rose from 3.7%
        
        Inflation never rose from 1%
      - Real wages of workers rose by 14% and the americans had 2 times as much salary as an european citizen
      - Employes worked 44 hours a week in contrast to the previous 47 hours
      - Outside Apearance
        
        Families had products like fridges, radios and cars a s everyday items
        
        Made Europe envy as such products to them were luxury products
        
        It disguised their society with a glamourous facade
        
        The society was deeply divided in
        
        Discrimination & Racism
        
        Poverty & Prejudice
        
        Fear of Political Extremism