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Did all americans benefit from the boom

During a period of significant economic change, several sectors struggled despite overall prosperity. The motor-car industry thrived, catering to those who could afford luxury items, while traditional sectors like textiles and coal faced fierce competition from new industries and synthetic materials such as rayon.

Did all americans benefit from the boom

Poorer education

$48 a week was the minimun required for living decently

Didn't suffer thanks to high tariffs of import

They were poorly paid

Competed with cheap labour in the south

Suffered from new synthetic materials

For instance, silk was replaced by rayon, a cheap subsitute

Electricity

Oil

Competition from new industries striked them

Textiles

Leather

Coal

Poor wage in 1928

42% of Americans lives in povery
70 hours a week
Female workers $9
Male workers $18

Motor-car industry

Mass nationwide propaganda during the WWI left very skilled advertisers

'Industry Efficiency Movement' was taken into account

Big and new industries

Advertising

Electrical industries

Only ones that could afford buying items they didn't necessarilly need

Example: cars

Low taxation brought benefits to everyone but especially them

Klu Klux Klan

White supremacy movement

James Cameron is a very famous case since in his book depicts his experience and probably the case of most afroamericans
President Wilson, as a consequence, became a powerful political force
"the decent american values against renegade black people and corrupt white Businessmen"

Those who did

Rich people

The middle classes

Did all americans benefit from the boom

Those who didn't

Native americans
They were losing their culture

Kids were sent to special boarding schools

To asimilate them into white culture

They suffered from extreme discrimination
Most of them live in extreme poverty

Poorly paid jobs

Worse health-care than white people

Lower life expectanty than white people

Were forced to move reservations in the mid-west

Most of their lands were taken

Workers
Few wokers belonged to a trade union
Income from new industries wasn't devided equally
Old Industries

Cotton

Unemployment was a problem

Mostly for

New jobs weren't created due to the growth of industry

New electrical and mechanised prodution

Afroamericans
Problems

Movements failed to change USA

They ended up living in ghettos

Most black people even in northern cities lived in poverty. They paid higher rents, had worse education and health service in comparison with whites

If they tried to move they had hostile reception. Poor whites considered them in the same way

Improvemments

In the north, black americans had a better quality of life

Politics

Marcus Garvey founded Universal Negro Improvement Association

Garvey set up a shipping line to support UNIA businesses and to help emigrate afroamericans

Expressed that black americans should be proud of their race and encouraged them to set up a business

WebDubois founded National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Struggle with racial segregation laws and lynching ones, they weren't so effective but they changed a bit the society

Artists joined all together in a city where they magnet white people to bars and clubs

In Chicago and New York there was a small black middle class and a movement to encourage black people setting up a business

The majority of people in the south of the US were black

Governments, feared to black people entering the power

They restricted them to vote, access good jobs or good education

Agricultural area
Total US farm income dropped alomst it's 50% from 1919 to 1928

However, not all farmers were afected

Rich Americans still wanted their products, yet, it was a small amount of farmers who survived the crisis.

About half of all Americans werein the rural areas, yet, when they moved to the city, they were unskilled and no one wanted them, leading to unemployment

Some reasons

Falling prices

Prices fell by 50% and farmers were deseperated to sell their products

Hundreds of rural banks collapsed

Overproduction

From 1900 to 1920, with improved machinery and fertilisers, agriculture was doing great

But on the 20s, farms were producing more products wich nobody wanted.

Population

After the war, there was a time were the populaation was falling, so, there were less mouths to feed

Competition

New competition against Canadian wheat producers

Declining exports

After the war, Europe was poor and the US tariffs were too expensive to import food from the USA