- caused by stock market crash in 1929
- usually said that depression ended in early 1940s
. . .- book takes place starting in 1933 in the middle of the Great Depression so it was in that time period
- Black Thursday - October 24, 1929 - record breaking 12,900,000 (12.9 million) stocks traded causing market panic
- Black Tuesday - October 29, 1929 - record breaking (again) 16,000,000 (16 million) stocks traded, more panic
. . .- these days lead to millions of stocks being worthless
- Many people who had to buy on credit went into massive debt and foreclosures and repossessions occurred much more
Plessy vs. Ferguson - "Separate but Equal"
Notes
- Plessy - a man who was black by law but looked white and could have passed as white, he identified himself as black when he intentionally sat in a white section of a railroad car
- He was arrested for the above mentioned act under the Separate Car Act (1892) and the case worked its way to the Supreme Court, Plessy's side said that the Separate Car Act went against the 13th and 14th constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court ruled it didn't because a law segregating or separating people or said peoples' facilities based on race or color didn't necessarily mean the groups were unequal, and the amendments enforced equality - therefor, if the separate parts were equal, it was fine, but if they were not the same for whites and colored sections, it was unconstitutional
. . .- this ruling that separate facilities were constitutional if they were equal started a belief of many that was called the "separate but equal" doctrine
- This reasoning was used to justify the separation of many things on a basis of color, even though "white" facilities were always better
Citations
"Great Depression." Fact Monster. Pearson Education, Publishing as Fact Monster, Jan. 2015. Web. 19 Mar. 2015.
"The Great Depression." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.
"Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)." PBS. PBS, 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.
Alex Easton
Great Depression
Notes
- caused by stock market crash in 1929- usually said that depression ended in early 1940s
. . .- book takes place starting in 1933 in the middle of the Great Depression so it was in that time period
- Black Thursday - October 24, 1929 - record breaking 12,900,000 (12.9 million) stocks traded causing market panic
- Black Tuesday - October 29, 1929 - record breaking (again) 16,000,000 (16 million) stocks traded, more panic
. . .- these days lead to millions of stocks being worthless
- Many people who had to buy on credit went into massive debt and foreclosures and repossessions occurred much more
Plessy vs. Ferguson - "Separate but Equal"
Notes
- Plessy - a man who was black by law but looked white and could have passed as white, he identified himself as black when he intentionally sat in a white section of a railroad car- He was arrested for the above mentioned act under the Separate Car Act (1892) and the case worked its way to the Supreme Court, Plessy's side said that the Separate Car Act went against the 13th and 14th constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court ruled it didn't because a law segregating or separating people or said peoples' facilities based on race or color didn't necessarily mean the groups were unequal, and the amendments enforced equality - therefor, if the separate parts were equal, it was fine, but if they were not the same for whites and colored sections, it was unconstitutional
. . .- this ruling that separate facilities were constitutional if they were equal started a belief of many that was called the "separate but equal" doctrine
- This reasoning was used to justify the separation of many things on a basis of color, even though "white" facilities were always better
Citations
"Great Depression." Fact Monster. Pearson Education, Publishing as Fact Monster, Jan. 2015. Web. 19 Mar. 2015."The Great Depression." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.
"Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)." PBS. PBS, 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.