History - chapter 9 - p307 onwards

Native Americans in the 1920s

Faced population decline, poverty, and loss of culture due to forced relocation, assimilation efforts, and land seizures.

• 1924 granted citizenship and allowed to vote

• 1928 Merriam Report proposed widespread improvement to laws relating the Native Americans

  • reforms introduced under Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1934

Prohibition in the USA

Introduced in 1920 to ban alcohol sales, led to decreased consumption, rise of bootlegging, speakeasies, and corruption, and ended in 1933 due to various reasons.

Wall Street Crash Causes

Caused by panic selling of shares in 1929, leading to the collapse of the stock market and the end of the Roaring Twenties.

Wall Street Crash Consequences

Resulted in bank failures, unemployment, reduced production, and financial losses for individuals and businesses, impacting the economy severely. STATS FOR CONSEQUENCES:

• vanderbilt family lost $40 million

• Rockefeller lost 80% of his wealth

• Winston Churchill lost $500,000

• between 1928 and 1933 both industrial and farm production fell by 40% and average wages by 60%

• by 1933 - 14 million unemployed and 5000 banks gone bankcrupt

• USA’s international trade reduced from $10 billion in 1929 to $3 billion in 1932

• 1932 steel city Cleveland, 50% of workers were unemployed and in Toledo 80%

Hoover vs Roosevelt

Contrasting Republican and Democratic policies during the Great Depression, including laissez-faire vs. government intervention, and their approaches to addressing economic challenges.

Bonus Marchers:

in June 1932, ever 40,000 demonstrators, including over 17,000 WWI veterans, marched on Washington

→demanded their pension for war to be paid early due to hardships endured during the Great Depression.

→ people camped outside the

White House