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1920's leading to the Stock Market Crash
Summary on the Stock Market crash and Great Depression
The roaring 20's came to an end once the Stock Market crashed. The United States enter the worst economic crisis in it's history. Millions of people were put out of work, out of their homes or forced into starvation. The response were mass movements against the economic crisis and wanting President Hoover to do something.
After WWI, there was a conservative trend that settled over the country, including legislation that was passed, Supreme Court rulings and a "hands-off" attitude towards the economy.
The US Supreme Court in the 1920's that had a big impact on the status of women by:
1) They killed the federal child labor law (a win for the women’s movement for the prohibiting of child labor)
2) The Supreme Court reversed Muller v. Oregon, which had declared that women deserved special protection in the workplace. The Supreme Court also invalidated a the minimum wage law for woman. The court reasoned that since the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the right to vote, women were equal and didn't need special protection.
3) The court rulings caused a huge debate over gender differences and whether women were different from men and needed special treatment or whether their were actually equal under the law and didn't need special treatment. This debate would continue until the end of the 20th century.
During the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, women suffered as much as men alike. But the unemployment rate for men was bigger than women. However, as families were affected by the crash, causing stress; mothers were giving fewer births as they didn't want their children to grow up during a terrible time.