Talked about the assigned blog. The assigned blog is due on Tuesday/blog discussion is also on Tuesday.My topics are: 1-Cause of the Stock Market Crash,2-Cause of the Great Depression, & 10-Women struggle to survive(475-476)Need 4 sources and 4 pics.Define the stock market-what it is and how it was doing.Causes of the Stock Market Crash:Causes of the Great: Depresson:http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm1. Stock Market Crash of 1929-2. Bank Failures3. Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board4. American Economic Policy with Europe5.Drought ConditionsWomen Struggle to Survive(11.2):BookWomen worked hard to help their families survive the Great Depression.Women canned food * sewed clothes.Managed household budgets.Jeane Westin-author of Making Do: How Women Survived the '30s, recalled, "Those days you did everything to save a penny.Women worked outside the home-they usually recieved less money than men did.Working women became targets of enormous resentment.Many people believed women didn't have the right to work, especially married women, when men were unemployed.In the 1930's cities refused to hire women as teachers.Many Americas thought women had it easier than men, because few were seen begging or standing in bread lines. Women were starving to death in cold attics, as one writer pointed out women were too ashamed to reveal their hardships.
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