Monthly Archives: April 2011
Th New Deal ….
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Changes Between 194I & 1974
1) The integration of minorities from ghettos and segregated areas for minorities to urban cities. However various forms of racial discrimination still occured. 2) Increased partaking of women in the labor industry in place of the men that went off to war. … Continue reading
WWII Got Me Rich!
1) As many historians state, World War II was the major cause of mobilization, lowering depression from 25% to 1.2%, and the federal bureaucracy increasing in size from 1.1 million to 3.4 million. 2) Due to participation of men in … Continue reading
Seeds of Change
1. Women became leading components of war industry manufacturing, replacing the men that went to war. 2. Because of the sex segregated environments cultivated by the war, establishments were created that catered to those with same sex desires. Rapidly spreading from … Continue reading
The not so central park(s)
During the great depression, many noticeable changes occurred for a multitude of cities across the U.S. However, it seems to be the culmination of little changes that created a bigger impact during the great depression. A very important and yet seemingly overlooked factor was … Continue reading
Changes During WWII
1. Unemployment decreased; A decrease in unemployment is the most important change to me because once the Great Depression hit, a lot of people lost their jobs and the unemployment rates were really high. So a decrease shows a major … Continue reading
Continual growing population
According to Homberger (p.55), when the British Army and their loyalist allies evacuated New York in 1783, the population of the city was 12,000. The demobilization of the revolutionary army, and the return of many patriots who had fled the … Continue reading
Assignment due 5/2
List at least 5 ways that cities and suburbs changed between 1941 and 1974 according to Chudacoff. Rank your list from most important to least important (in your opinion) by putting numbers 1-5 next to each item. Write one paragraph … Continue reading
Great depression
The great depression had a huge impact on the various cities. The economic decline gave the government power to do whatever they pleased . They needed a solution to the unemployment problem that was going on around them. In 1931, the … Continue reading
The soup kitchens.
Although it was recorded that most of the time when men were lined up waiting to receive a whatever meal or aid they could get, they would not look each other in the eye. Most of the men were too ashamed that … Continue reading