The Importance Of Life During The Great Depression

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How was life during the Great Depression? By Toni Lee Robinson October 9, 1929 In October 1929, the stock market crashed. The Great Depression was the worst thing it had happened in American history. It also affected the entire country. Many American people lost their money and their jobs. They were jobless and they were unable to make rents or house payments. Some of them were kicked out of their houses because they couldn’t afford the house. And were homeless living on the street. The causes of the Great depression were when people started loaning money from the bank, and then they would purchase stocks on margin and get profit from it, but people did not make money off of their stock and they owed for the original stock. The United…show more content…
He also believed that the Depression would quickly pass. He tried to encourage the American people, telling them the hard times would soon be over. People were unprotected because there were pernicious people who roamed among them, taking what little the residents had. The American people were angry at President Hoover because he wouldn’t help them. Many of the homeless felt like they had lost the battle. And it seemed things couldn’t get worse. When severe drought conditions prevailed across much of American’s plains, Dust Bowls were created. Soil turned to dust and large dark clouds could be seen across the horizon in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico. Topsoil was carried by the ton barren fields, across, hundreds of miles of plains in the driest regions of the country. For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life — breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk — were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. When the topsoil from once fertile farms literally blew away and
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