How Did The Americans Contribute To The Great Depression

The Great Depression of the 1930’s was devasting. It deprived many people jobs, land and their livelihoods. It began in the United States and quickly spread to other parts of the world. Many people lost everything and were living on the edge with nothing but scrapes of food from dumpsters and occasional soup kitchens to keep them alive. People blamed themselves for their loss of jobs, so it became an epidemic.
The reactions leading to the Great Depression caused many uprisings. One reaction to the Great Depression was fear. When people perceived that things were not going as well financially “financially”, they panicked. The took all their money out of the banks in fear that the banks would collapse, leaving them broke. Once they had retrieved their money, most people didn’t do much with it. They horded it in due to fear that they would lose it. Majority of people were not buying things anymore which caused the industry to suffer, many companies went out of business leaving their employees
This became very difficult during the Great Depression. Rather than blame the banks or the sock market or anything else, most fathers blamed themselves. They could no longer provide for their families, for whatever reason, and rather than externalize the blame, they felt that it was their fault and they felt ashamed. As a result, many children took on more responsibilities at an early age. They had to comfort and take care of their despairing parents. Often, children would find jobs when their parents could not. The depression changed families in dramatic ways. Lots of marriages were delayed and the divorce rate dropped drastically as well as birth rates causing populations to drop. Children ran away because they did not like the child labor law, and many children wandered the streets with no shelter or family because they became too expensive to