Eleanor Roosevelt And The Great Depression

The dust bowl was a widespread massacre. It spread from Texas to Nebraska(History.com). Many people were killed because they were suffocated by the dust. The dust bowl was a big issue for the country. About 9 years after the dust bowl started the Great Depression

The Dust Bowl is considered to be the worst economic disaster in United States history. The Dust Bowl negatively affected people in an economic way.The dust bowl was so devastating that it ruined the U.S. economy, destroyed homes and farms, and forced people out of their homes and the only life they ever knew. The Dust Bowl ruined the U.S economy.The 1988–89 drought was the most economically devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States (Economics of the Dust Bowl).The U.S has had many economic disasters and if the dust bowl was considered the worst of those disasters that means the economic effects were devastating. Even though the exact economic losses are not known for this time period, they were substantial enough

The topsoil, now loose, was easily picked up by wind, creating large waves of dust rushing towards homes and farms. Without crops, farmers lost valuable money, leaving them with two choices, to move away in order to make a living, or continue to lose money. “60 percent of the population moved from the western area...due to the drought that was killing cattle and ruining crops”(History.com). They had “set up the region for ecological disaster” (History.com) and could no longer live in the area. John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: “And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.

President Roosevelt's idea of the three “R’s”(relief, recovery, and reform) did bring a significant impact to American society and it overturned the public’s thoughts about government intervention. Before the New Deal people preferred a free-market economic system and limited government ,but after they realized that government intervention was as important as freedom. Due to the New Deal, Americans believed that they had the strength to pass challenging situations. They did not loose hope as shown by President Roosevelt’s statement “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ("Franklin D. Roosevelt) This statement was a response to the problems caused by Great Depression, and The New Deal and its aims effectively exemplified the idea that although the situation was worse, we still had the determination to overcome

Leeah Coady 1st hour Language Arts, Hobbs In the early 1930´s and late 1920's the Great Depression hit our economy hard, the stock market crashed and almost everyone was put out of business. Many things had happened during the Great Depression not only did many people get put out of business, many people got put out of their homes because all of the banks closed know one was allowed to access their money. As time went by during the Great Depression many people were not only becoming homeless and jobless but, many began to starve because lack of money. During the Great Depression to add on to all the chaos we had the election for out new president, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to put people back in their homes, get

Nineteen states in the United States became a vast dust bowl (Ganzel). Many homes became uninhabitable because of how terrible the dust storms were. Massive drifts of dirt buried pastures, grazing lands, and barnyards, piled up in front of homestead doors, came through window cracks, and sifted down from ceilings (Dust). “Some 850 million tons of topsoil blew away in 1935 alone. ‘Unless something is done,’ a government report predicted ‘the western plains will be as arid as the Arabian Desert.’” (The Dust).

As said before, the great plains environment would have cycles of dry years, the drought during the 1930’s has been recorded as deficient in rainfall, extreme hot temperatures, and high winds. This spelled disaster for the 300,000 square miles of over farmed land in the great plains. The lack of rain stunted crops, the intense heat dried and withered them, and the wind would blow them away. Quite literally, farmers watched as their challenging work was withered and blown away in front of

"The Bum Blockade: Los Angeles and the Great Depression" it explains the how Los Angeles was affected by the Great Depression. Before the Great depression really took hold of Los Angeles, it all started with the dust bowl. "Throughout the 1930s, more than a million acres of land were affected in the Dust Bowl, thousands of farmers lost their livelihoods and property, and mass migration patterns began to emerge as farmers left rural America in search of work in urban areas. This migration added to Great Depression unemployment woes, stressed relief and benefits programs, and created social strife in many large American

The people who did grasp their money spent less on items that they needed because prices skyrocketed, which in return got people getting laid off from their jobs, worsening the economy and losing even more money. Then, the environment started to play a role. Major dust storms swept through the prairies, leaving farmers with no crops and no ways to get food or make money. These additional effects to the stock market crash made the banks take people’s belongings, homes, vehicles, and anything that they had. The future looked bleak during this time for many.

In 1929, the U.S. was hit with the worst economic crisis in the history of the country, the Great Depression. The Great Depression left millions of people unemployed and cost millions their life's savings. The Depression lasted for ten long years for the American people. Since the Great Depression ended, people have studied it, trying to figure out what happened that started it all. The problem was, in fact, the poor economic habits of the people at the time, such as speculation, income maldistribution, and overproduction.