How Did The Great Depression Affect People

The Great Depression had a huge effect on the people. Some people die but, some other people live but suffer from poorness, illness, and from hunger. But other people live and have nice lives but, deep down they still remember their depression. The people here are very poor and hungry. The people get only about 10 cents a week or about 69 cents a month. The people had to sometimes borrow money from other people or relatives. The text said that they were penniless and they need money so they could pay the bills. “Page after page of old receipt books show entries of 10 cents per week on one policy and 69 cents a month on another.”
“Daddy is thinking of taking a loan from Mr. Roosevelt and his men, to get some new wheat planted where the winter crop has spindled out and died. Mr. Roosevelt promises Daddy won’t have to pay a dime till the crop comes in,”the passage states. The depression has caused people to lose hope and faith. The passage states, Ma says, “Bay, it hasn’t rained enough to grow wheat in three years.” Daddy looks like a fight brewing. He takes that red face of his out to the barn, to keep from feuding with my pregnant ma. I ask Ma, how, after all this time, Daddy still believes in rain.”
The Great Depression lasted for quite some time but, some people lasted to the end of it and some died along the way.His (Franklin Roosevelt) first act as president was to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress drafted the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933, which stabilized the banking system and restored the public’s faith in the banking industry by putting the federal government behind it. Three months later, he signed the Glass-Steagall Act which created the FDIC, federally insuring