Great Depression Effects

Imagine that you’re living in the year 1929. You live in a well-fed, pretty successful family. Then, one day, your father comes home with news that the stock market has crashed and he got laid-off. Your life goes downhill over the next ten years. Food is now one of your biggest worries. You no longer can get the things you used to have, and your family is in danger of losing the house. The Great Depression was a hard time of economic collapse. Many teens left their homes to try to find a job, food became scarce, and tons of people lost their jobs. Those are some effects that the Great Depression had on Americans.

One effect of the Great Depression was that a lot teens or kids left their homes and tried to find a job. During the 1930’s, teens or even kids, more than 250,000, decided to hop onto trains and drift across America. Most people did this because they wanted to find a job or their families were too poor, but others even did it because they wanted an adventure.
Before the Great Depression (1920’s), there was a time of great prosperity and most people were satisfied. Then disaster struck. On a day known as “Black Tuesday”, stock market prices plunged. More than 8 billion dollars were lost in one day, and 30 billion dollars were lost within a three weeks of the crash. Unemployment rapidly swept through the nation as a result of halting industries and the crashing stock market. Millions of people lost their jobs, and by 1932, one out of four, Americans were unemployed and almost 25% of American workers were jobless during the worst years (1932 and 1933).

The Great Depression was a hard time for the American people. Teen/children leaving home, food becoming scarce and hard to get, and unemployment are just some of the many effects of the Great Depression. The Great Depression left a deep scar in the Americans who lived during that time and were some of the worst years of economic