Economic Downturn Project Reflection

As a group we divided the amount of work between each other. We used the tactics from our last lap. Whomever was the richest did the least and whomever was the poorest did the most. Everything was done on time because of the pressure I exerted on everyone. As the leader of the group, I maintain balance with everyone in the group. The members of my group each put in the best effort they can and always work for the best.

There was alot of reading involved, but we understood the reasoning between American government and business. The economy was in a rut and the government interferred with business to try and stimulate the economy back to normal. Which is what has led us into this great recession. Now Obama's stimulus plan shows significant logical investments that will be made to get this country back on track. We will not know if this is successful until we see more jobs created, more taxes collected and less forclosures.

Changes in America. The Great Depression part 2

When the Great Depression began, everything was falling apart. The stock market, banks, society and basically the economy. People lost stock, money, homes, jobs and sanity. Society was becoming homeless and drastically dying out. Due to this the government interferred with new areas of transaction with the economy and society as a whole.

They created more social assistance agencies at the national level. Americas government at the time took on a greater role in the everyday lives of the people. The New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt created a liberal political alliance made up of labor unions, minorities within the country such as blacks and other religious groups, intellectuals, the poor, and some farmers. These people became the strong backbone of the Democratic Party for countless years following the Depression.

The new deal promoted GNP back to its 1929 level, but Roosevelt refused to conjure the shortcomings that the depression needed, to end.

Changes in America. The Great Depression Part 1.

A mother and her children. They had been living on frozen vegetables from the fields and that of the birds the children killed.

Americas forestation. One of the photos from natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from industry and development.

The "Golden Age of Agriculture". The incomes of farms doubled and the value tripled. Between 1898 and 1915 the amount of wheat planted in North Dakota more than doubled from 4,300,000 acres to 9,400,000 acres and production grew from 69 million bushels to 159 million bushels. The increased use of machinery, ever larger and more powerful, was the key to the farmers' success.