Great Depression Dbq
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11/26/10
The Great Depression was a time of agony and strife for the people of the United States. During this time period, of the 1930s, altering of the American social fabric occurred in the sense of family ties, underlying beliefs/values, and bonus expeditionary forces. The hardships after the crash of 1929 until the end, marked usually around 1941, caused families to come closer together and work together to survive. The Jacksonian ideals of independent and self-sufficient citizens were eroded and assistance began to help people along. The depression changed how a group of people were viewed as especially when the government itself, who normally revered a certain group, treated them with utter disrespect. When the market crashed on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929, families were in deep trouble. They needed to pull together, earn money however they could, and pool their dollars. Entertainment was expensive so it consisted of sitting at home around the radio and talking. When they were …show more content…
People became dependent upon assistance and handouts because of unemployment, the inability to pay back loans or feed their family, and they hung on to their small farms. These handouts consisted of charities and private sources, such as flop houses and soup kitchens. The majority of the assistance was provided by the federal government in the form of programs which provided employment. These programs consisted of the Civilian Conservation Corps. which was designed to provide hand outs as needed. Another program provided government jobs partly to achieve development goals, but primarily to provide employment for the otherwise unemployment, destitute and hopeless. This was FDRs New Deal. The self respect of many was suffering because if you couldn’t support your family, and were forced to live in a shack in a so called “Hooverville”, it was difficult to look in the mirror and feel
11/26/10
The Great Depression was a time of agony and strife for the people of the United States. During this time period, of the 1930s, altering of the American social fabric occurred in the sense of family ties, underlying beliefs/values, and bonus expeditionary forces. The hardships after the crash of 1929 until the end, marked usually around 1941, caused families to come closer together and work together to survive. The Jacksonian ideals of independent and self-sufficient citizens were eroded and assistance began to help people along. The depression changed how a group of people were viewed as especially when the government itself, who normally revered a certain group, treated them with utter disrespect. When the market crashed on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929, families were in deep trouble. They needed to pull together, earn money however they could, and pool their dollars. Entertainment was expensive so it consisted of sitting at home around the radio and talking. When they were …show more content…
People became dependent upon assistance and handouts because of unemployment, the inability to pay back loans or feed their family, and they hung on to their small farms. These handouts consisted of charities and private sources, such as flop houses and soup kitchens. The majority of the assistance was provided by the federal government in the form of programs which provided employment. These programs consisted of the Civilian Conservation Corps. which was designed to provide hand outs as needed. Another program provided government jobs partly to achieve development goals, but primarily to provide employment for the otherwise unemployment, destitute and hopeless. This was FDRs New Deal. The self respect of many was suffering because if you couldn’t support your family, and were forced to live in a shack in a so called “Hooverville”, it was difficult to look in the mirror and feel