Great Depression Impact On American Society

The Great Depression was a long, severe, recession in the economy market that caused the stock market to crash. Millions of people lost their jobs and banks closed because so many people were in deptt but didn’t have the money to pay the bank back because they were unemployed. Therefore, the banks closed and all of their saved income was gone. The Great Depression had very big impacts on American society both socially and economically.
The American society, socially had a very big impact planted on it during the Great Depression. There was a very high depression rate from the Great Depression, this lead to higher suicide rates, high number of runaway teens, more orphaned children, and a higher divorce rate. All of these things caused by depression