HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civilian Conservation Corps, Farm Credit Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Women began to gain more of a role in society. They worked in factories while their husbands were away at war and when their husbands came back, they thought that they had earned the right to keep their jobs. The american public was scared that communism would come into the us. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes. Courts were prejudiced against them because they were foreigners and anarchists. At the time, the amount of immigrants entering america was too great. To combat the situation, only a select few were allowed to enter the country. In particular, a percentage was used for each race, from a different year. To what extent was the harlem renaissance a true reflection of african. Racism still existed across the us as demonstrated by the. Bad banking practices, overproduction, lack of foreign markets, poor government regulation of business practices. The great depression worsened conditions for everybody, everywhere.
