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Submitted by angelmasky on September 11, 2007
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It was during 1920’s when the great power of the United States was put into test. Based on history, Americans had greatly suffered from two major economic chaoses.
First was the Great Depression year. This economic turmoil had a major impact on the country’s economic stability and had spread towards Europe and some other parts of the world. Lastly was the entry of the United States into World War II in the 1930’s. During the peak of the war, the US government needed to allot a huge part of its budget to military for it to sustain their entry to the war which result to an increase in the government expenses and eventually would cause the raise in the tax rate to compensate for that part of the government budget that was used to sustain the war.
According to the article ("Great Depression,"), the author stressed that the sudden down turn in the business profits, prices of the commodities, individual savings and government revenue in the form of tax collections was the result of the “stock market crash” in 1929 that continued until the end of 1930’s. The said economic disorder had greatly affected the social conditions of the blacks specially the ones living in the country side.
According to ("The Second Great Migration,"), around 1.5 million black Americans left the South going to the cities from the North and West between the year 1910 to 1940 because of the “massive collapsed in the agricultural employment”, and later, the outburst of the Second World War would also contribute into their resettlement. The main reason, as said in the article, of their migration was for their security and for the simple reason that they found it hard to live in the countryside during the economic misery. An example based on the article was the turn down of the prices of major products produced by the Southerners, (e.g. tobacco, cotton and sugar). For them, the only answer to their need was to move towards the cities on the North and West, (e.g. Chicago,...
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