Women and girls were not thought of back then for having the same rights as men. Men were seen as powerful and superior rather than women who were seen as nonsuperior. They didn’t want women to have the same amount of power that men had.
Who or what did you feel was most responsible for the Great Depression?
What were the major hardships suffered by your family during the depression?
What do you remember as being the worst aspect of life during the depression?
By the early 20th century, most of the US textile industries had moved to the south, the industries remained in growth mode and established their center of operations in the Southeast to save on costs. North Carolina alone for instance had 177 mills in 1900. Previously, most of the textile industries were located in the northeast. At the turn of the 20th-century in the United States mills and factory conditions earned the attention of progressives, Immigrant women and children did much of the work done in factories and mills as well as the piecework performed in apartments.v
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Dear John,
Our journey from Vietnam has been very rough, with so many sick people on this ship, yet it would be better than the czar's army. I will write again when I am ready for a wife. The Americans here did not take to kindly to us immigrating. I hope this life works out.
Sincerely,
Miss Philadelphia
