Everybody lived life like they were supposed to. Not a lot when down, until on October 29, 1929 the Stock Market crashed causing the Great Depression. It caused a panis all around the world. This cause almost 200,000 people in America to lose their jobs. The years out of the initial crash there was 30 million citizens out of jobs or income.
“On October 24, 1929 prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Losses estimated between $8 billion and $9 billion”( Account of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, October, 1929). As a result, the “Great Depression” was a period of severe economic hardship that began in 1929 and lasted most of the 1930’s. Therefore, many Americans lost their jobs, homes, and their savings. “The Great Depression affected many countries worldwide.
People all over the country were all impacted by this prolonged recession. Many people slumped into poverty and became homeless and unemployed citizens. This immense downturn was due to overproduction, the Wall Street crash, and the weak banking system, the European recession, the Gold Standard and the policies implemented by the Hoover administration. The depression lasted for over a decade before an economic upturn began to take hold. This marked the end of the Great Depression in the 1930’s.
Stock Market Failure- Tyler The day the stock markets failed or Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 In fact, it was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression. Two months after the original crash in October, stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars. Even though the stock market began to regain some of its losses, by the end of 1930, it just was not enough and America truly entered what is called the Great Depression. Coming out of World War I, America was high-rolling. With new products, the automobile, washing machine, and the vacuum and many more.
Hoover V. Roosevelt Starting in October of 1929, lasting a decade, The Great Depression striked. This was a global economic crisis that originated in the United States. This caused many Americans to lose their jobs, houses, and hope. The President of the United States hoped they could fix this crisis that was caused by greedy people and greedy banks. The two presidents that were in office throughout the Great Depression was President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Great Depression affected literally the whole world, it started a widespread of hunger, poverty, and unemployment. Due to the economic failure not many people were making clothing in the 1930s, but the fashion was really unique. In the 1930s people were recovering from the Great Depression so many companies and
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history, which lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Spending began to drop, and it caused declines in employment and some companies began to lay off workers. By 1933, the Great Depression reached its lowest point and millions of Americans were unemployed. The 1920s consisted of dramatic social and political change.
Many Americans found themselves lacking money during the 1930s as the supply of money became unable to keep up with the demand people had for it (Wicker 994). The banks closing and people losing money or property due to loans, left people in a state of poverty as they lacked the money to do anything about it. Alongside the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl occurred as well. Many American farmers faced large dust storms during the 1930s, causing changes to their livelihood and state of being (Lookingbill 1). These dust storms made changes to the Great Plains, forcing away a large number of farm families.
America was thrown into desperation as the stock market crumbled, marking the official beginning of the worst economic crash in the history of the world. Banks shut down, people became bankrupt and the number of unemployed reached one-quarter of the workforce. Farmers needed to produce more goods for the same amount of money; which led to a huge seven-year drought. ‘The dirty thirties.’ When thousands of workers migrated to California with a hope of achieving ‘The American Dream.’ Steinbeck was interested in those who strived for a better life and those who had hopes and dreams. George and Lennie have these dreams, the dream to “get a little stake” and to “live off the fatta the lan’” But what binds them together is their trust that keeps them moving.
Many were out of a job, and others experienced pay cuts and reduced hours. The Great Depression affected the economy in the United States and throughout the world by businesses reducing their goods and services by half the amount of the 1920s or they went bankrupt. Europe could not buy American goods or pay America its debts, which Caused unemployment to rise. People during the Great Depression could not afford rent or food because there were no jobs so they lived in shacks.