Iconic Images From The Great Depression

he Great Depression was a time of huge economic downfall. During this time period people lost their homes, money, and everything they had ever earned. Millions of people were affected, including the middle and lower classes, who would just become poorer. People in upper classes, even dropped to the lower class. This downfall began on October 29, 1929, and the leading cause was the crash of the stock market.

Film in the Great Depression When the stock market began to fall apart in the autumn of 1929, it triggered a domino effect that exposed many weaknesses in the American economy. “Between 1930 and 1933, over 9,000 American banks either went bankrupt or closed their doors to avoid bankruptcy. Partly as a result of these banking closures, the nation’s money supply shrank by perhaps a third or more between 1930 and 1933, which caused a decline in purchasing power and thus deflation. Manufactures and merchants began reducing prices, cutting back on production, and laying off workers. “(Brinkley Page 554-555) Without a job or as a result of underemployment, millions of American’s were hit hard in the pocket book.

This is because many people lost family members, money, and homes. A lot of people died from starvation and disease. Many banks failed, causing people who had money in that bank to lose it. Many people were left homeless and even died. Finally, Herbert Hoover made the Hoover Dam in 1931, to control flooding and generate electricity in the area.

The Great Depression was catastrophic. It was a critical time period in our history when our economy crashed. People lost their jobs, and families became homeless. Back then, two million people were homeless(Timeline). Today, 564,708 people are homeless(Social Solutions).

“The Great Depression affected many countries worldwide. It began with the 1929 crash of the American stock market and ended with the onset of World War II”( Great Depression). The stock market crash was one of the worst times in American history. Thousands or even millions of people went west to look for jobs to provide for their families. The 1920’s started out as beautiful as the flower, but nobody had the time to just sit back and relax to even notice the resources were not there to sustain it.

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

The Great Depression was an economical crash in 1929 that devastated everything from family life, agriculture and business (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great Depression). It ruined thousands of lives and decimated millions of others. The Great Depression was the longest and worst economic depression in the United States’ history. When the Great Depression struck millions were affected by it. When it came to family life, to say they struggled is an understatement.

The Great Depression actually started to take place in 1929 all the way to 1942. It was a very dark time in the past for the Unites States. Many people died or was devastated by the stuff that happened during those dark years in the 1930s. The Great Depression had people living on the streets and sleeping in central park, people getting fired, and a lot of people having nothing to eat. During this time since many people was out of work they traveled to place to place looking for a job to feed their families and/or themselves.

“The 1930s was A period of extreme hardship in the united states The country had fallen into financial disaster.Banks had failed, factories had shut down, farmers could not sell their crops many families lost their life savings by 1932 one in four americans was jobless.” “During the great depression, millions of people became homeless. A hobo is a homeless and often poor person who travels in search of work.During the 1930s,most hobos traveled place to place by sneaking on to freight trains.” In the 1930s,there were more than 250,000 kids. like Robert he rode freight trains across America. just like the rest of the other 250,000 kids.A lot of hoboes also rode the freight trains. The rail yards were patrolled by bulls.

The Great Crash generally refers to the stock market crash (in America - Wall Street) on 29 October, 1929. It started on Thursday, 23 October when just before the 3:00 pm bell rang, the stock prices instantly fell. For the following week stocks fell lower and faster and changed hands so fast, the machines that kept track of these stocks seemed unable to cope up with the activity. All along while President Herbert Hoover reassured the people of America that the nation was “on a sound and prosperous basis”, more panic spread and because the uncertainty and risk was rising, people wanted their money back. In all this frenzy the United States Securities Regulation agencies could have shut down the market but they feared that would only spread more fear and could have led to a violent display of the emotions of the public.