Which statement is true regarding the American workforce of the 1930s? A. Children were driven out of the workforce. B. The perc
entage of women in the workforce increased. C. Big businesses were able to maintain high wages for most workers. D. African Americans were hired above white Americans. E. Immigrants continued to flock to America for the opportunity to work.
In ten years, from 1930 to 1940, the number of women employed in the United States rose from 10.5 million to 13 million, an over 24% rise. Why this happened? The reason for this signicative increase was that jobs available to women ( “women’s work”) belonged to industries that had experience a less severe impact by the crash of the stock market in 1929.
the war put Britain in severe debt, which caused them to heavily raise taxes on the colonies without representation in the British parliament. this obviously angered the colonies, leading to rising tensions between the colonies and Britain that started the war
