Mini-Investigation Research Final Draft

A. Plan of the investigation
1. American companies were facing bankruptcy during the Great.
2. Did economic bad times in the Great Depression cause companies to dropout?
3. Because of the Great Depression, many American companies were facing bankruptcy and might dropout. This topic will show people what was happening for American companies during the Great Depression and what happened to people in lower classes.
4. In this investigation, I used Wikipedia and some Google websites to search for my topic. Wikipedia should be focused on information about population of the lower classes in 1929 to 1939. Google websites should be focused on numbers of companies (ex: banks) during the Great Depression.

B. Summary of evidence
a In 1929, there were 25,568 banks than were in operation. In 1933, the number of banks had dropped from 25,568 to 14,771. The Great Depression had a huge effect to many banks.
b During the Great Depression the lower class rate in America became the highest in the nation's history, and the unemployment at nearly 25 percent during the 1930s.(increased lower class population)
2. MLA
a.Carr, Nicholas. "Great Depression." Britannica Online Encyclopedia. N.p., 2009. Web. 27 Nov. 2009. .
b. Wikipedia. "Great Depression." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 2009. Web.
27 Nov. 2009. .
c.Nelson, Cary. "the Depression in the United States." The Modern United States Poetry., 2009.
Web. 27 Nov. 2009. .

C. Evaluation of Sources
Carr, Nicholas. "Great Depression." Britannica Online Encyclopedia. N.p., 2009. Web. 27 Nov. 2009. . The publisher of this fact is Nicholas Carr. He published this information in the Britannica Online Encyclopedia at the year of 2009. Nicholas Carr has written this information by gathering secondary sources because he was not there when the Great Depression happened. People around the world from different ages who are interested in economy are people he intended to get his messenger. Also, his purpose is to share information about what was happened to companies and people during the Great Depression. The value of this source is really good because Nicolas Carr has included charts and some other websites that he used. This will strongly support his information for people to read. Some limitation is that even though there are many people that show similar sources, but it might be wrong information that government recorded it wrong. Nicolas Carr and other publishers were not there during the Great Depression, so the statistic might be wrong.

D Analysis
Banks are one of the important companies in every country, including the United States. If the banks were closed, there won’t be enough money for companies to borrow and investigate more products. Also, the unemployment rate during the great depression had rose to 25 % (the highest) Therefore, the more people were unemployed the more people who were live in lower class. Based on the facts in part B, they aren’t enough to answer my question. It is because I didn’t find the exact answer for my question, which is “Did economic bad times cause companies to dropout?” Part B shows some facts that tell us what happened during the Great Depression. It is known that the facts in part B may also be open to different interpretations because in part B, the numbers of banks might be actually talking about some states of the America, not including all of the states. It might also be actually talking the unemployment of the Japanese-American or African-American during the Great Depression.