Who didn't benefit from the Boom?
- Created by: Sophia2902
- Created on: 11-12-17 00:30
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- Who didn't benefit from the Boom?
- Farmers
- 1920s, over 3 million earned less than $1000/year
- 1920-1930, first time farms declined in American history
- 1928, half of all US farmers lived in poverty
- 600,000 farmers lost their farms in 1924 alone
- The average income of a farmer in 1929 was 40% of the national average
- Farmers totalled 30% of the population
- African Americans
- 3/4 million lost their jobs in the 1920s
- 60% of black women were domestic servants
- The KKK claimed 5 million members and 350 lynchings during the decade
- Old Industry Workers
- 4 month strike for 600,000 miners but nobody cared
- The average monthly income in 1929 of bricklayers was $320, but it was $103 for coal miners
- Women
- 25% of the workforce was female but there was a huge wage gap
- Only 5% of places in medicine schools were allocated to women
- They were granted the vote in 1920
- Native Americans
- Numbers had declined from 1.5 million to 250,000 in the 1920s
- Granted the right to vote and US citizenship in 1924
- Assimilation policy and 'Americanisation'
- General
- 60% of the population was living under the poverty line
- The top 5% earned 33% of the national income
- Farmers
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