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Women during the Great Depression
By: Hannah & McKay
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What is the Great Depression?
• The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939
• Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency, by 1933, 11,000 of the united states 25,000 banks had failed.
• They said it began with a catastrophic collapse of stock market prices in New York stock exchange in October 1929
• Three years of stock prices continue to fall until late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929
• Also world war II was going on during this time
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Women's roles during the Depression
• During the depression, there was a war going on called World War II
• Women were left behind in the country while men went to war
• They took jobs the men did like working in factories, running government, and providing supplies for the men at war.
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How Women effected the war• They were nurses for people
in the war. Taking care of the injury
• Provided ammunition for soldiers and supplies the men took over sea’s
• Mabel Vernon was a women who stepped up and took control in the white house to move things along during the time of the war.
• Even though many leaders were men, her ideas and leadership helped
Mabel Vernon
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After the Depression
• After the depression and the war, men came back to the country expecting things to go back to normal
• Women were furious and thought they deserved equal rights because during the time of war and depression, women had to take the responsibilities of men.
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Women won their rights
• Women went to congress to get the law change making women equal
• They created an amendment that stated all women were equal as men.
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19th amendment
• Suffragist parade (1915)
Source of information from: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm
• Nineteenth Amendment • Passed by Congress June 4,
1919. • Ratified August 18, 1920. • Section 1: The right of citizens
of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
• Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Revolution
• The world changed there ideas of humanism.
• Peoples outlook on the world changed almost to the same way our current days society thinks.
• People today now believe all people are equal.
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Sources
• http://www.history.com/minisites/wwii-in-hd/inside-wwii/assets/north-america/women-in-wwii/photo-gallery/women-in-wwii-03-loc-1a34931v.jpg
• http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/5bcd67e31efbc078fa3fcfce352eb8d0_1M.png
• http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/educational-resources/working-women-wwii/pics/2964_wiring_boxes_crop_520.jpg
• http://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/la-fi-aerospace-history101.jpg
• http://www.sewallbelmont.org/womenwecelebrate/mabel-vernon/• http://www.sewallbelmont.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mabel-Verno
n.jpg• http://
www.sewallbelmont.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mabel-Vernon-Picket.jpg
• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm