Social and Cultural Effects of the Depression. Sports provided a distraction from the Depression. Also new forms of expression flourished in the culture of despair. The Great Depression brought a rapid rise in the crime rate as many unemployed workers resorted to petty theft to put food on the table.
A lot of natural laws start to be questioned with the Scientific Revolution. That led to new political ways of thought like the improvement of society by promoted freedom, independent rights, and equality.
With scientific discoveries that questioned natural laws, the scientist starts to reflect about government. They thought that people were equal because they were all governed by the same law.
The government was understood as a natural process so it could be improved.
Yellow journalism did<span> not, ultimately, start the </span>war<span> on its own; it was the sinking of the USS Maine that provided the trigger, not some fabricated story created by Hearst of Pulitzer</span>