Government expenditures provided loans to veterans, subsidized corporate research and development, and built the interstate highway system. Without paved roads to run on, there would have been far fewer cars and trucks built and sold in America, and their impact on society and the environment would have been much different.
I find this interesting because their way of getting rid of the debt and boasting the economy was to spend even more money and give out more loans to veterans.
A year later, half of all U.S. mortgages were in default. The foreclosure rate stood at more than one thousand per day.
How did the government let it get as bad as it did? Did they even know the signs were there and choose to ignore it resulting in it backfiring on the American people.
Women struggled to claim equal rights as full participants in American society. The poor struggled to win access to good schools, good healthcare, and good jobs.
I personally can't imagine being a woman and being in the lower class in this time period especially in this time period. it's so fascinating how America treated everyone back then if you weren't really rich or a man.