Awnser: Humans had been around for tens of thousands of years by the year 1 A.D. when the Earth's population was an estimated 200 million.
Answer: It increased competition in major industries and forced businesses to lower prices. It enabled industries to gain access to new sources of raw materials and new markets.
The movement is called Zionism, and its motive was to create a new Jewish national state in Palestine. In the Judaism religion, Palestine is considered to be their original homeland. Obviously, the supporters of this idea created this movement in an attempt to make this happen.
It was a time of mass production but due to a mentality of high production and low wages consumerism couldn't keep up. America was overproducing and with companies losing money people started to get laid off. Further spurring the Great Depression was the Stock Market Crash, with people buying stock on credit and people eventually discarding their stock in a mad dash it crashed. Despite the fact that the crash only affected a small percentage of the population it trickled down due to the fact that these were business owners. Unemployment rates skyrocketed.
On the bright side...the beginning of the 1920s was the end of a war and a huge economic boom. (Stock Market Crash didn't happen until 1929) Prohibition led to an era of rebellious teens, women drank and smoked, dressed "scandalously", and overall gained more freedom
