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Great depression means people live on the street, peoples out of work, getting fire, and many peoples have nothing to eat. During the great depression many peoples out of work all over unite start, many unemployed peoples get on the road, travel from town to town, city to city, state to state, hoping that they will find work and feed their family, baby, or even just to feed them self. Not many people had cars, so many of them hitchhiked or "rode the rails." October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed is the day that official beginning of the great depression. The stock prices drop really fast without any hope of recovery, panic stock try to sell their struck all at the same time. But no one is buying it. Then the stock market, which appeared to be a way to become rich quickly become the path to bankruptcy.
That was only just the beginning of the depression. There was a lots of bank had also invested large portions of their clients' saving in the stock market, these bank were forced to close when the stock market crashed. So many banks in America were closing all over the country. Peoples heard about this and afraid they would lose their own savings people rush in to bank that were open to withdraw their money. The massive withdrawal of cash would caused additional banks to close, because the bank have close those who didn't reach the bank in time when broke or bankruptcy.
Industry and many businesses were also affected. So because of losing much of their moneys in either bank close or stock market crash many of businesses started cutting back their employee hours or wages, consumers began to cut down on their spending, and purchasing such as luxury goods. This lack of consumer spending caused additional to many businesses to cut back more or the employee, wages, and more lay off the workers. Some businesses couldn't even stay open with all those lay off and cutting down wages, soon they closed their doors, leaving millions out of unemployed.
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The dust bowl
Farmers were a bit safer from the effects of the great depression because they could at least feed them self with their product. But unfortunately during the great depression, and the great plains hit hard with both a drought and horrendous dust storms. With just topsoil exposed only, and high winds picked up a lot of loose dirt and whirled it for miles. The dust storms destroyed everything in their paths and take all the farmers crops leaving them without their crops.
The smaller farmers you were the unluckier you are. Small farmer were hit especially hard. Even before the dust storms hit, the invention of the tractor drastically cut the need for manpower on farms. A lot of small farmers were usually already in debt, borrowing money to buy seed and paying back when their crops come in. when the dust storms kill their crops, not only could the small farmer not feed himself and family, he still got the debt that he cannot pay back now. Bank would foreclose peoples out of their homes, and many of them become homeless and unemployed.
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Many of the people that rode the rails were teenagers, but there are some are family, and mans. They would get on cargo trains and crisscross the state. Many families get separate so that guy can find work in California and the women and children can stay in church. When there a post that there was an opening jobs there would be thousand people applying for the same job. Those peoples who unlucky to get a job had to stay in a shantytown (known as "Homerville's") outside one of the town. Housing in the shantytown was built out of stuff that can found freely, like wood, cardboard, or even newspapers.
Many of those farmers who had lost their homes and land usually headed west to California, where many rumors of jobs. But unfortunately there was not that many work, there was about 500-800 work but the owner was printing out more than 10000 flyer saying there are many job so that they can lower the price of the payment.
Unite state economy broking down really bad and entered the great depression during the presidency of Hoover. Many people accurse him for great depression so many of the people name the shantytowns after Hoover call the Homerville's.
During the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt won in a slide. Peoples of the Unite State have a very high hopes that president Roosevelt would be able to get the economy all back to normal. As soon as Roosevelt took office, he closed all the banks and only let them reopen
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Once they were stabilized. Next, Roosevelt began on a project that would help the Unite state economy; it was call the new deal.
The new deal was known before Roosevelt in office, he was using it to get himself to win the election. Now that he the president he stat what he promise, the new deal programs were most commonly known by their initials, it reminded some people the alphabet soup. Some of these programs were aimed to help a lot of farmers, like one call the civilian conservation corps. It attempted to help a lot of unemployment by hiring people for various projects.
To a lot of people at the time, President Roosevelt was a hero. They believed that he has a lot of care for the common man and that he was doing his best trying t end the great depression.
Looking back, however it is uncertain as to how much Roosevelt's new deal programs helped to end the great depression. By all accounts, the new deal programs eased the hardships of the great depression. But the great depression is still bad by the end of 1930s.
The major turn was after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entrance of unite state in World War II. It leads the country to a batter condition. We need much war equipment so a lot of factory was hiring people to work. Many men have job and many women stating to have jobs for the first time out side of the house, so it create a lot of jobs, that how we end the great depression.
