Great Depression and the Americas Review by Sarah Guynn https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv en-us 2019-03-20 19:57:11 UTC 2019-04-05 01:34:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Causes of GD s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344420068 In the time leading up to the GD, tariffs were high and war debt weighed heavily on the economy. Black Tuesday and Thursday were the catalyst that set off the GD, in essence it was a time bomb waiting to go off.]]> 2019-03-23 03:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344420068 FDR and the New Deal s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344420686 FDR created the New Deal as a way to stop the Great Depression. He did this through public works projects (see WPA) and ]]> 2019-03-23 03:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344420686 Latin America and the Great Depression s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496362 Latin America's economy was heavily based on exports before the Great Depression, as most nations had been. Their biggest trading partners had been Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany. In the time leading up to the Great Depression, the British economy's growth had slowed. Plus, there was increasing competition in the US market between foreign and local suppliers.]]> 2019-03-23 21:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496362 Canada and the Great Depression s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496364 Black Tuesday hurt the Canadians too and the unemployment rate would rise to 30%... As many as one in five Canadians depended on the government for their basic needs.

Below: "Strikers from unemployment relief camps established by the federal government in British Columbia and Ontario on their way to Ottawa to complain about camp conditions, 1935. Their journey was stopped in Regina." - Canadian Museum of History]]> 2019-03-23 21:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496364 Impact of the GD on African Americans and Women s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496365 African Americans suffered double or triple the unemployment rate of whites because of racism.
"Last hired, first fired." Mentality.
This acted as a catalyst for Black Activism.]]> 2019-03-23 21:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496365 The GD's effect on the arts in the US s1511096 https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496397 President FD Roosevelt commissioned a lot of art during the Great Depression through the Federal Art Project through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hundreds of artworks were commissioned, which lead to cash flow's slow restart in the artistic community.]]> 2019-03-23 21:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/s1511096/xymhg1jbalgv/wish/344496397