The Great Depression of the 1930s

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This paper stresses that the Great Depression, which is the "defining event" in the world during the 1930s, hit immigrants and the common man extremely hard; but African-Americans and other minorities, such as Mexicans, were affected even more than any white people in any part of the world. The author points out that, during the Great Depression, the American Dream was shattered beyond recognition. The paper relates that the Great Depression of the 1930s had a widespread impact on the economy of Nigeria and other African countries because the falling world markets caused the British trade amalgamations to lower extremely their prices for commodities from these areas.

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"These poor people found that they were now even worse off economically at this time than they had ever been before, and the government was not lifting a helping hand to them in any way at all. In addition, because of the scarcity of jobs, it was declared that women must not go for work, and in one family, only one member would be allowed to work and earn money. However, this did not work, because of the first truth that many families found that they could no survive on the income from one member, and they would need the income of the woman too if they were opt hope to survive in a very basic way. The second truth was that the husbands in their search of greener pastures had abandoned many women, and these women had no option but to go out for work to look after their children and run their homes. Marriage rates dropped for the first time in many years. "

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