https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t Why was it 'roaring' for the industries? en-us 2019-02-19 05:29:27 UTC 2024-07-15 12:38:17 UTC hello@padlet.com l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/332549458 2019-02-19 05:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/332549458 l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/332549503 2019-02-19 05:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/332549503 l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334431969 2019-02-23 12:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334431969 l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432227 2019-02-23 12:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432227 l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432373 2019-02-23 12:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432373 l_nair https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432680 2019-02-23 12:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/334432680 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336721899 Gov't Policy - Noy
The United States government, then run by conservative Republicans, implemented policies favorable to domestic businesses such as low taxation, tariffs on foreign imports, and an absence of government regulation and intervention in the economy. The absence of government intervention in economics is known as laissez-faire while low taxation revolved around the theory of trickle down economics and the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats.]]> 2019-03-01 03:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336721899 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336721963 Sharecroppers were farmers who passed a share of their crops to their landowners, in exchange of farming land. Unit the 1920's, black sharecroppers were common in southern states, each farming sole products (eg. carrots). Unfortunately, due to the slump in demand for agricultural products, approximately 750 000 black workers were fired. Their plight was how they would escape poverty. So, these people moved to the northern cities, in hope to find low-paying work. Those who remained, faced extreme discrimination and engulfed in poverty.]]> 2019-03-01 03:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336721963 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722042 Due to the consumerism in America, industries started producing more to meet these demands. The motor industry employed half a million laborers due to its growth in terms of automobiles. This influenced the building and construction industry as more roads and homes were built creating more jobs. The steel industry also provided jobs as well as the new chemical industry and fruit farmers.]]> 2019-03-01 03:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722042 2022siddharth https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722144 this picture shows a farmer who is hopeless while the industries are getting massive amounts of money this shows how traditional jobs were not affected from the economic boom and how the government efforts did a lot to help large businesses but very little to help small businesses like textiles coal and farming. This was bad because as the cities and industries grew the small and rural area stayed the way the were and did not experience the boom of the 1920s]]> 2019-03-01 03:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722144 2022nina https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722170 2019-03-01 03:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722170 2022tanya https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722203 The US government implemented many policies which positively impacted the growth of industries. Such as the Laissez Faire policy, which encouraged the growth of private industries, and the The Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922 which increased the tax on imports, which coaxed Americans to buy local products, endorsing isolationism.  ]]> 2019-03-01 03:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722203 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722283 Majority of the sharecroppers in the country resided in southern states like Texas and Louisiana. They would grow and exchange a portion of their crops with their landlords (usually white) for farming land. Following the armistice, international demand for grains diminished as European farmers could now go back to their farms and grow produce. Due to this, around 750,000 black Americans were let go by their landlords and forced to move to northern cities where they could only attain low paying jobs. The ones that stayed faced poverty and extreme racial discrimination.]]> 2019-03-01 03:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722283 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722315 During the 1920s economic boom, the American standard was greatly improved as wages were increased, prices were falling and working hours were decreased. This gave people more time and money to spend shopping. Consumerism became a way of life in the middle class and was considered "The American Way". ]]> 2019-03-01 03:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722315 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722316 As agricultural was negatively affected, small farmers were not making enough profits, they became unemployed and lost their land. This led to them moving up north, to find new jobs. However, they could only find low wage jobs. ]]> 2019-03-01 03:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722316 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722433 The cartoon is trying to depict the lives of the farmers during the 1920's. While the automobile industry and various other industries flourished, agriculture incurred only  losses due to foreign competition and changing food habits.]]> 2019-03-01 03:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722433 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722516 The cartoon shows a man walking to a farm that now turned into an industry this is to symbolify the agricultural industry being taken over by other ones in the 1920s.
-Deya]]> 2019-03-01 03:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722516 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722743 The boom in the 1920's led to major expansion of industry's in big city's. Agriculture was one that was left out from the expansion. US agriculture wasn't needed by anyone outside of the US after World War 1. Unemployment rates shot up for farmers during the 1920's.]]> 2019-03-01 03:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722743 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722947 This picture is of people travelling overseas to move to America to live the "American Way" as the huge banner behind them says America had the highest standard of living and these people wanted to leave the conflicts and issues of their own country behind to get a better life]]> 2019-03-01 03:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722947 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722967

]]> 2019-03-01 03:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336722967 https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336723118 Henry Ford was able to create 15 million cars of Model T with the help of the production line. He was successful in decreasing the price from $850 to $260.]]> 2019-03-01 03:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/l_nair/6xde1en2720t/wish/336723118