Why did the US suffer an economic depression in the 1920’s?
In the 1920’s life in America was good this was because of several different reasons, the one reason was immigration. Thousands of people from Europe and different places came to make a better life, ether they where poor and wanted to live the American Dream, where everyone profited. This didn’t go well as over 860,000 people where coming in so the had to put laws on, the 2 main laws where ‘immigration act’ of 1917 and ‘emergency quota act’ of 1921. This made it that no one over 16 who couldn’t read was let in, and that only 357,00 immigrants where let in. The immigrants who did get in weren’t treated good, many where treated like slaves and died of dust poising in the home, some did get good jobs with about $50 a week. Anti-groups where made like the Klu-Klux-Klan and WASP’S (White Angelo Saxon People) these where made to protest about different races and black.