A Plan of the investigation
My topic of the investigation is relation between the Great Depression (G.D) and voters participated. Therefore, my question would be "what effect did the Great Depression have on voters participated?" I found out that voters participation before the G.D comes and after the G.D came. I wondered about it and thought that there was something to make them interact with each other. First, I tried to seek to get sources about number of eligible voters that participated in voting from 1920 to 1944 and their numerical difference and next, the percentage of eligible voters who lose their jobs during the G.D and lastly, Comparing the power with democratic party and non-democratic party during the G.D. I could find some information about these on the internet.
B Summary of evidence
First of all, I would like to say about the number of eligible voters that participated in voting Before the G.D and After the G.D; in 1920, the percentage of voter rate was 43.5% and the rate grew up constantly and in 1940, it reached 59.2%. However, in 1944, the voters participated decreased 6.3%, it went down to 52.9%. Next, the percentage of eligible voters who lose their jobs during the G.D; after the G.D, trade levels plummeted, as well as personal income. Construction starts came to a virtual standstill in some regions. Farmers had a difficult time as commodity prices took a nose dive. Some agricultural products were down as much as 60 percent. In the United States, the percentage of the population that was out of work rose to 25 percent (15 million people) of the workforce at its highest level. Record high unemployment during the Great Depression continued until after start of the Second World War in 1939. In the United States, unemployment rates didn't drop below 10 percent until after that country entered the War in December of 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Then lastly, comparing the power of democratic party with non-democratic party during the G.D; At first, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover who were in Republican party resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. However, United States presidential election, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the representative of Republican party, Herbert Hoover by almost 20% and also Roosevelt became the only President to be re-elected three times and served for twelve years (1933-45). However, although his well-fighting, Democrats lost 71 congressional seats during the November election in 1938 and the House of Representatives was split in a similar ratio. In 1940 election, Roosevelt defeated the republican, Wendell Willkie by just 10%.
C Evaluation of sources
In order to criticize and evaluate, I picked this source among the sources I used.
http://www.shmoop.com/great-depression/statistics.html
( Number of eligible voters that participated in voting and other sources, unemployement rate during the G.D, non-democratic party )
Well, This source was very useful in many ways. It contains lots of facts which occured during the Great Depression (Unemployment During the Great Depression, Political Participation During the Great Depression ).This is origin from the study that perspectives of many changes during the G.D. by number. Its purpose is that informing people of how the subjects which have a significant meaning changed by number, so people might know that the accurate changes, corresponded to each stream of time. The point that it recorded the importants parts of changes as numeral could be a value of this source and short comments of each part, related to the source are also let us know the unknown facts. However, the range of investigations were limited. The source investigated each important part in view of oveall, not specific, so it is hard to find out something what we want deeply. It just shows us approximate situation of the time period. Also, because of undefined origin, it can't be guaranteed its correctness and professionalism.
D Analysis
We can know from the sources that the percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in general elections, from 1920's which was before the Great Depression to 1940 which was almost right end of the Great Depression, the vote percentage goes up steadily. However, in 1944, it goes down by around 7%. That means that the U.S. citizen wanted to change the gloomy economy as casting vote the candidate who is likly to terminate the Great Depression with reasonable policy. So we can say that the rate reflects mind of people that wanted to get over the hardship. However, this growing of vote participation percentage could be not big issue, considering the range of increase Because the period that the rate goes up, the eligible voter population also increased together. Finally, WW2 which revitalized the U.S. economy ended the Great Depression. Therefore, the interests about vote of people turned off automatically, and it caused the sudden-drop of vote participation in 1944.
I figured out that in order to react the U.S. market during the Great Depression, the U.S. citizen needed a competent leader who can break the depression. So they voted inevitably, but kind of in faith.
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