Severe drought, stock speculation, and a banking crisis in
the late 1920s lead to the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a severe
global economic depression which began in the United States. It started after
the stock market crash of October 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
A textile worker can make than a sharecropper a bit more money, but fathers and mothers need to work.
<u>Option: B</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Not every sharecropper, sawmill operative and textile workers was poor. Eventually a newly married or news starter of family use to feel more comfortable to sharecrop of his father's land, as a temporary stage between dependence of youth and middle class yeomanry. The highly skilled industrial workers use to earn good salaries while the mill workers and miners use to fetch out less than a dollar in one day until 20th century, while sharecropper had far less earning than that.
Answer:
There were several reasons why the United States became interested in revitalizing contact between Japan and the West in the mid-19th century. First, the combination of the opening of Chinese ports to regular trade and the annexation of California, creating an American port on the Pacific, ensured that there would be a steady stream of maritime traffic between North America and Asia. Then, as American traders in the Pacific replaced sailing ships with steam ships, they needed to secure coaling stations, where they could stop to take on provisions and fuel while making the long trip from the United States to China. The combination of its advantageous geographic position and rumors that Japan held vast deposits of coal increased the appeal of establishing commercial and diplomatic contacts with the Japanese. Additionally, the American whaling industry had pushed into the North Pacific by the mid-18th century, and sought safe harbors, assistance in case of shipwrecks, and reliable supply stations. In the years leading up to the Perry mission, a number of American sailors found themselves shipwrecked and stranded on Japanese shores, and tales of their mistreatment at the hands of the unwelcoming Japanese spread through the merchant community and across the United States.
The Perry Expedition led directly to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the western Great Powers, and eventually to the collapse of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and the restoration of the Emperor
Answer:
In the December 1898 Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million
