women during the depression

Women during the Great Depression

By: Hannah & McKay

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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www.sewallbelmont.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mabel-Vernon-Picket.jpg

• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm