How To Help People During The Great Depression

During the Great Depression America learned many things during those years.How to share and help people in times of need., their's a risk when when investing money, Also how to be thankful for the things you have no matter what your situation is.
It all started when everybody was investing all their money into companies. Most of the population thought that investing was risk free because how good it did in the 1920's. So people started putting all their money and borrowing money to invest. But one day the stock market went down by a lot. This left the people in America with no more money and in huge debt that had a domino's effect, Businesses started shutting down, banks started closing and it left the people jobless and sometimes even homeless.
Many people lost their jobs and were in debt. During this time their was clothes and food lines so people for people to use. Donations and such helped the food Line. At first the government they felt like it was not their job to help the people. Until the mayor of New York stepped in Franklin Roosevelt. He later got Elected as president, still during the great depression. He created new agencys like the W.P.A which helped get America's economy going back up slowly but surely.When World War Two it was a huge boost to the economy. Millions of men left to battle which left many jobs open. This allowed many jobs to be open, America's economy started going up and soon the great depression was over. The only way that the people made it through was by relying and helping eachother out. Evan though The Great Depression was very hard and left terrible memories in the minds of America they still had things to be thankful for.During these hard times The FDR's First Inaugural Address gave the people things to be thankful and things to be happy about.Evan though they were all sharing common difficulties they were thankful that it only concerned