1. The Great Depression
... to 1936. Hourly wages had dropped down by fifty percent. there were no unemployment insurance. Many Californian children died of starvation. The farm area were affected as well as the urban cities. In Kentucky people lived off of weeds. Only one quarter of the unemployed population were on well fare. This is because the richer Americans were not willing to raise ... Motors. This company was one with the most violence and strikes. They lost 14,000 employees. Another unsafe company was the Pittsburgh Coal Co.. The people of this company kept machine guns. Listening to the radio was a favo...
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