Causes of the Depression My three major points are The Dust Bowl‚ World War 1‚ and the Stock Market Crash. These three major points put millions of people in a sad place‚ A place nobody wanted to be at. Everyone wanted to believe it was a dream. Doing their best to raise their children. Caused a whole lot of damage to the crops‚ getting around to places‚ and especially losing loved ones. This was all happing in Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas. For eight years
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During the 1930’s the great depression affects many people. Some people got affected in ways you would never expect. A lot of people were losing their jobs. This caused more poverty in the US. Streets were becoming filthy because there wasn’t any plumbing and all in all‚ the US was going down hill. Everyone that lived during the great depression‚ struggled in some sort of way. Looking at the facts it is easy to see that Mexicans had the most unique challenges to survive the great depression. Other
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During the Great Depression the American people suffer the worse of it from the Bread lines‚ Hooverville‚ and the degradation of the social norms. Before men went to ask for relief‚ Men exhausted their savings and borrowed from friends and family‚ their last option would the bread line. Also‚ many minorities suffered during the Great Depression‚ minorities were often the last to be hired and first to be fired. Also‚ farmers suffer as well‚ having purchased costly equipment for agriculture found it
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President during the Great Depression. Hoover was a Republican and Roosevelt was a Democrat‚ which means they both had different ideas and plans to deal with the Great Depression. Both these Presidents had a similar approach with economic policies‚ by using the federal government to help recover the country. Roosevelt was more involved than Hoover to fight through the depression and Roosevelt was more supportive to the people and inform them that the government is helping them. When the depression hit
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example of this was the Great Depression and the strategies that we used to get out of it‚ also known as the New Deal. In 1929 The United States had the hardest economic downfall in the industrial world. This would last 10 years before our government created The new deal‚ something that would turn us on the right path. Throughout the Great Depression our government would have to go back to stage one and pick our country back up one piece at a time. During the Great Depression we would go through
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Anthony Costa‚ Mr. Corcoran‚ U.S. History‚ 2 Nov. 22‚ 2024. During Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933‚ America was not in the best shape. The great depression was still going on and was getting worse by the day. It has caused many families to become homeless‚ hungry‚ and jobless. Banks were closing down and families couldn’t get their savings out of the bank. FDR realized this and knew he had to do something quick. During the New Deal‚ FDR focused on solving and fixing unemployment‚ bank
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The Great Depression The Great Depression was a period of economic instability following the First World War. The supply of food was much greater than the demand which decreased food prices‚ leading to less profits for the farmers. These events ultimately led to companies also lowering prices‚ which then caused many layoffs and job resignations‚ due to salary issues. The unemployment rate in the U.S. surged to a mammoth 24.6%. This inability to find jobs lowered many families’ income by a massive
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The Great Depression was a difficult time for everybody during the late 1920s. It was a period of unrest‚ unease‚ and called for a total revolution on the way people lived their lives; the impacts of which can still be felt today. The Depression drew to a close as Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation on the road to recovery after being sworn into the oval office in 1933‚ the means of this recovery being through his New Deal for America. Though effective‚ but not quite to the degree Roosevelt
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Hooverville‚ Dust Bowl‚ Soup Kitchen‚ New Deal‚ Unemployment‚ Bank Failures‚ Foreclosure‚ and Hobos are some of the many words associated with the Great Depression. The Great Depression transformed the lives of many Americans and is remembered as the most severe economic downturn in its history. The Great Depression affected many aspects of American life as it caused one in four Americans to be unemployed‚ leaving millions without a stable income. Without that income‚ many families lost their homes
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best to do what they could to be able to survive. Many citizens banded together and formed organizations in an attempt to restore the prices of goods and services. Farmers were the majority of the people who were leading the fight against the Great Depression. Family’s were struggling in different ways depending on what their economic situation was. In an attempt to have a meal some of them had to use there own pets as a way of being able to eat. “He thinks we are not going to eat it‚” his sister
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