BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND

1. HOLLYWOOD

   • golden age
   • after great depression gave people hope
   • valuable
     • phscological role
   • even with no money, 16million people went to the cinema each week

2. WALL STREET CRASH

   • overproduction of goods
   • rush to sell shares and redeem depths
   • interest rates low
     • small banks unable to cope
   • great depression
     • a lot left unemployed

3. AMERICAN DREAM

   • gave everyone hope
   • everyone can be whatever they want IF they work hard
   • regardless of social class or circumstances of birth, everyone was equal
   • idea by equality by inspiration was a motto
     • improved ethos of US

4. WOMEN IN SOCIETY

   • inferior
     • no respect
     • lower pay
   • as result of GD money was tight so expected to leave jobs for men
     • did unskilled jobs eg. seamstresses and secretaries
     • expected to be homeowners as profession
   • had to follow stereotypes: beautiful well mannered mothers
     • got social status from husbands

5. LIFE FOR FARMERS

   • drought
     • unable to farm
       • no money
   • working conditions bad
     • paid $5 a day
   • not many jobs
     • everyone went to california
       • too may people

6. NEW DEAL

   • response to Great Depression
   • relief for unemployed
   • series of domestic programmes
   • phscoligal effect
   • many different acts
     • many still in use today

7. RACISM

   • black people second class
   • racial discrimination legal
   • impossible to fight discrimination in the south

8. PRE-1928

   • 75million people
   • Roosavelt president
   • 1915 US in WWI
   • age of confuserism
   • 1920 women allowed to vote