Problems in the 1920s
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- Created on: 16-04-17 15:24
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- Problems in the 1920s
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- 50% of Americans lived below the poverty line
- Farmers suffered during the 1920s
- Prices fell as they produced more than they needed
- Reduced incomes meant that they couldn't pay their mortgages
- Some were evicted from their farms
- Farm labourers lost their jobs
- Many went across the USA looking for a new job
- African Americans and new immigrants
- 1 million lost their jobs in 1920s
- In the Southern States they lived under segregation
- Many moved to the North
- Had to take lower paid jobs and poor housing
- Same problems for new immigrants
- Workers in older industries
- Coal industry declined due to the rise of electricity
- workers in these industries suffered wage cuts and job losses
- This also happened in the cotton and textile industries
- Ku Klux Klan
- Slavery ended in 1965 but African Americans did not have equal rights
- Segregation or Jim Crow laws existed in the South
- KKK set up in 1866
- It was a white supremacist organisation whose aim was to intimidate and terrorised black people
- Attacked anyone who wasn't believed to be a WASP
- WASP was White Anglo Saxon Protestant
- Met in secret at night but also paraded openly
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