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COPYRIGHT 2003 The Gale Group, Inc.Causes of the Great DepressionThe period from 1920 to 1929 is known as the Roaring Twenties. Those years were exciting, fascinating, and entertaining for the U.S. population, whose sons had just fought and won World War I (1914–18), the war that had promised to end all wars. Everyone was enthralled with the new gasoline automobiles that Henry Ford (1863–1947) had made affordable. Women had gained the right to vote, and some had acquired new electric machines that made life easier, such as washing machines and vacuum cleaners. Every day more Americans brought a radio into their homes; the radio brought music and news that thrilled listeners. The new moving pictures captivated audiences in palace-like movie houses. Businesses and manufacturing industries continuously expanded. The prices of their stocks steadily increased through the 1920s, going on a wild ride upward between 1926 and October of 1929. Stock prices went far beyond realistic values and had little basis in the health of the companies. These skyrocketing stock prices signaled<span> </span>g to be
With decentralization, the power is distributed among many people instead of vested in one emperor. This means that each person will have less power overall. In addition, each individual will then try and gain power of their own over each other, weaking the original emperor's influence even more. Hope this helps!
Folk music--this traditional music first emerged in the 19th century and revived during the 1950s and 1960s as protest music.
Folk music of the 1950s and 1960s told the story of civil rights and Vietnam. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger were some of the famous folk singers of the period. The music resonated with the youth generation and was the anthem of protest. <span />
Private ownership entails the existence of an owner/propietor, who has important economic incentives for the preservation of the value of his property and even for enhacing its future value. This occurs to a greater extent when private ownership takes place in countries with strong institutions that are able to enforce property rights if necessary.
On the other hand, when collective property forms are used instead, economists tend to forecast that it will be affected by the process known as the Tragedy of the Commons. It describes how when there is a shared resource, individual users who have access to it and use it in accordance to their own interest, end up behaving in a manner that is harmful for the common property, even tough this is contrary to their personal interests too, as then the common good will not be in the same initial conditions anymore. For example, overexploitation due to unlimited grazing on a collectively-owned field.
Henry Rathbone was stabbed in the shoulder when Booth shot Lincoln. He had rushed at him immediately after the shot was fired.
