Children Of The Great Depression

The America in the 1930s was drastically different from the luxurious 1920s. The stock market had crashed to an all time low, unemployment was the highest the country had ever seen, and all American citizens were affected by it in some way or another. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal was effective in addressing the issues of The Great Depression in the sense that it provided immediate relief to US citizens by lowering unemployment, increasing trust in the banks, getting Americans out of debt, and preventing future economic crisis from taking place through reform. Despite these efforts The New Deal failed to end the depression. In order for America to get out of this economic

‘The hardships of the Great Depression in Australia were not shared equally.’ (Anderson et. al.,2012)

Between 1854 and 1929 there were about two hundred thousand children who were either orphaned or abandoned by families who could no longer care for them. These children needed new families to care for them. The children traveled west mainly to rural areas in the Midwest by train in search of new homes where they could live and work. The children generally were a year old to seventeen years old. Most were separated from their brothers and sisters, and some never saw their siblings again. Thus began the “placing out” movement.

The Great Depression 1929-1942 was the economic downturn. On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed wiping out millions out of work. The economic slowed down and then it shrinked in size. It then progressed to a recession and then to a panic. This progressed over the years and a series of bad decisions to slow down the economy into depression. Which then led to WWII.

“At one point in the Depression, the cupboard was literally bearing of money.” What effect did the Great Depression have on the people who lived through it? The jobs they had, how they had to use their money, and the help they had to get.

The Great Depression had many aspects that made it one of the harshest times for people around the world. It began on October 29, 1929. Jobs were hard to find, the economy was in terrible conditions, and lots of people were homeless and dying of diseases. Some of the key players in ending the Great Depression were Franklin D Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune.

After a series of stock market crashes, the United States’ economy descended into a period of contraction. For more than ten years, the United States suffered through this state of economic despair also referred to as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover was in office at the time and found himself amongst the greatest era of economic declination. His response was to devise countermeasures to the depression that he felt would be most beneficial to the country. He began by requesting of large corporation heads to resist cutting employees’ wages and positions and instead reduce the margins of profit they accrued. He also pumped money into public works projects such as the construction of highways and government institutions. In addition

There are many beliefs and reasons why the Great Depression happened and when did it occur. Overall the strongest belief of what caused the Great Depression was the crash of the stock market. Along with the the crash of the stock market other reasons of why the Great Depression happened were suggested to do overproduction, buying installments, and purchasing stocks.

The Great Depression, was caused by a number of weaknesses in the economy. It begun with the dramatic crash of the stock markets, bank failures, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30% of the workforce. 1/3 of the farms in the state of Mississippi changed hands because of foreclosure. Farmers, couldn’t sell crops because of over production.

There were many actions taken to try and solve The Depression. Some of the problems were the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment rising, hunger spreading across the country, and bank failures. Some of these problems did have solutions though. For example, one of the attempts to solve the problem of unemployment was creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of 1935. The WPA set out to create as many jobs as possible so people could get back to work and provide for their families.

The Great Depression of 1929 was a horrible time where American and its people had to suffer from poverty and hunger. The reasons for the Depression as stated on page 4, were “...a number of serious weaknesses in the economy.” examples such as people borrowing money they could not give back, wealthy making more money, and even the cost of WW1 cause problems. These all lead up to the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, were “thousands of investors were ruined and confidence in the economy was destroyed. ”(page 4)

The Great Depression was a horrible event for all the countries that were affected. It had many reason it caused a downfall to the economies worldwide. One of the reason was the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that made that led to the Great Depression into losing more than $40 billion dollars. Bank Failures -was another reason. Americans in that time suffered greatly due to the financial crisis to have economic support.

There are many examples during The Great Depression that showed the best and the worst in people while they went through hard times. Many people struggled with finding jobs, being fed, and taking care of their families and themselves. Some good things happened as well, the moment they heard they have been hired all you would see is a big smile on their face or when they they have a piece of bread in front of them which in their eyes was a feast.

In 1929 the stock market crashes due to an unstable economy, over speculation and Government policies. Many people think that the stock crash was to blame for the Great Depression but that is not correct. Both the crash and depression were the result of problems with the economy that were still underneath society 's minds. The depression affected people in a series of ways: poverty is spreading causing farm distress, unemployment, health, family stresses and unfortunately, discrimination increases. America tended to blame Hoover for the depression and all the problems. When the 1932 election came people weren’t very fond of Hoover, but Roosevelt on the other hand introduced Happy Days and everyone loved that idea.

“personal assertion of existential meaning in a universe of potential cosmic meaninglessness” (Mast, 246). In the adventure films and Westerns, heroes are willing to challenge authority for their personal beliefs and feelings. They take actions based on individual beliefs, definitions of right and wrong, and the urge to complete their personal goals and dreams. The helpless antiheroes in screwball comedies present the situation during the Great Depression from another aspect. They cannot make choices themselves because of others’ intervention, and unfortunate things just happen to them. The denial of humanness is one feature of antiheroes. Powerlessness of antiheroes in the ridiculous world definitely reflects the desperate situation faced by the Americans during the Great Depression.