Unemployed parents could not pay for food or water, nor could they pay for clothing and shelter, and as a result, innocent children suffered. Incapable of providing for their families, many fathers became frustrated, and simply abandoned them, leaving them to fend for themselves. Other times, young children were left homeless, having no one to care for them. During the height of the Great Depression, at least 200000 young people and 25000 families roamed the country, in search of food. These alarming statistics show just how greatly the Depression did actually impact
Adams wrote a letter calling for a mass meeting to be held and thousands of people arrived at the Old South Meeting House. On December 16th 30-130 men left the meeting and ran to the harbor and destroyed 342 chests of tea into the war which is now known as the Tea Party. The Bengal Famine of 1770 was a catastrophic famine that affected the lower plain of India, Bangladesh and parts of Assam, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand. The famine occurred due to the British East India Company’s policies in Bengal. They raised taxes from 10-50% and starved the populace to get the maximum profits.
Investment A will generate $2 million per year (starting at the end of the first year) in perpetuity. Investment B will generate $1.5 million at the end of the first year and its revenues will grow at 2% per year for every year after that. a. Which investment has the higher IRR? i.
In the end, 288 businesses worth an estimated $200 million were looted and destroyed. Over 35,000 African Americans participated in the riot, and over 16,000 National Guardsmen, county and city police were needed to shut it down. Political leaders such as MLK Jr. and John Conyers Jr. visited Watts to try to calm the people and both were booed. John Conyers Jr. was actually hustled to a waiting vehicle for his
Seventy five percent of American families lived in poverty. The stock market crashed. People stopped spending money. There were long lines of starving people in the streets. They waited for hours for a bowl
This revolution resulted from the horrific defeats in World War I for the Russians and internal pressures. As a result of this revolution, Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from his throne. Vladimir Lenin gained control and established the USSR in 1922. He was the head of the first Soviet Government. He died in 1924 and the General Secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) took control.
In Tacoma, six hundred Chinese residents were chased from their homes and their houses were burned, and in Rock Springs, Wyoming, twenty-eight Chinese men were killed and the remaining men were forced out. Many of those who were now homeless and unemployed ended up in San Francisco in the district known as Chinatown. (Films Media Group, 2003). Under the Exclusion Act, Chinese laborers were issued papers which allowed them to go to China and return to the United States. This changed in 1888 when the Scot Act made those papers invalid.
The Chinese immigrants were denied citizenship and no more immigrants from China could come to the United States. Also due to the imperialism, Native Americans were forced to move to settlements. But a lot of these Indians tried to run away and this resulted in a lot of deaths. In1890(Wounded Knee Massacre) the US 7th cavalry opened fire on a group of disarmed Lakota Sioux which killed more than 150 of them. The 20 soldiers involved received Congressional Medals of honors for murdering innocent Indians.
Nanjing, China When the Japanese invaded China, they looted, raped, killed the Chinese civilians of Nanjing, even after they had surrendered to Japan. This became known as the Rape of Nanjing since 20,000 women were raped and murdered, and another 300,000 had been murdered. Among these helpless victims, there were children no older than seven, and elderly woman as old as in the seventies. The significance of this was that the Chinese had many years of frustration, anger, and hatred now felt towards the Japanese who referred to the Chinese as subhuman. It also is significant because of the mass number of civilians murdered and raped AFTER they had already surrendered.
With no job and no savings, thousands of Americans lost their homes. The poor congregated in cardboard shacks in so-called Hoovervilles on the edges of cities across the nation; hundreds of thousands of the unemployed roamed the country on foot and in boxcars in futile search of jobs. Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many. In a country with abundant resources,