Riding The Rails During The Great Depression

The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to mid 1940s. It was a time of misery and suffering for everyone around the world. The stock market crash caused millions of people to end up without a job and hungry. Up to 7 million people worldwide lost their lives. This devastation made many families start over and begin again.

When most people hear the phrase “The Great Depression” they only associate it the crash of the stock market and the hard times that followed. Here in the Midwest, when we think of the Great Depression we also think of the Dust Bowl and the Dirty Thirties. The Great Depression was a very climactic end to a series of poor choices that greatly affected the entire United States.

The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and farmed on the Great Plains and in turn, changed America. During this time period, many farmers ran out of business because no one could buy their products since many people were out of money.

The Great Depression, was the worst economic downturn in American history. Many Americans believe that the only cause of the Great Depression was the stock market crash of 1929. There were several causes of the Great Depression.As it started to get worse and worse by 1933 it reached to rock bottom.Nearly 15 million americans were unemployed.Also at this time almost half of the banks were closed.Meanwhile lots of people blamed the president at the time,Herbert Hoover.Although all of the struggles the americans went through it really shaped our country now.We learned from the mistakes and overall we are a better country

The Great Depression started in 1929- 1939, it was the deepest and longest - lasting economic downturn when a stock market crashed. Many people have lost their jobs and they couldn’t afford bills. Birth rates dropped because people could not afford to care for children, and divorce rates dropped because people could not afford legal fees. The Great Depression caused many effects on the American people.

The Great depression began in 1929 with a dramatic event called that Wall Street Crash. This led to the failure of banks and businesses all over the United States. Millions of people lost all their savings and their jobs, and thousands became homeless because they could not afford to pay their rent. Some homeless families lived in shacks made of cardboard. Others took the road to look for work. (Bingham J.) As it could be imagined it was very disheartening to many as losing everything that was worked hard for. Many events took place during this time, like the Stock Market Crash, The Dust Bowl, The New Deal and also Prohibition that changed the outcome of what people could and couldn’t do.

The Great Depression was the result of life during the Roaring Twenties. People heavily valued materialism and hedonism which in-turn made many people try to find a way to gain a large amount of money in a short period of time. As more and more people were intoxicated with greed and selfishness, they became more careless through their actions and made many mistakes. These mistakes led to the

The Great Depression was a time of unequalness, disease, and hatred. Sexism and racism were the main problems and most of the population had these problems. When the stock market dropped nobody treated anyone with respect. There were limited jobs,no money, and the world was falling apart. Women were treated unequally and pushed out of jobs, and the women that had jobs were also blamed for the stock marking crashing.

The Great Depression shut down down many banks and took away everyone’s money in the 1930’s. The Great Depression caused many people to not have foods and it didn’t rain that much during 1930’s. They lost their jobs and they didn’t have any money to afford things. They also made their own jobs just to get money to buy stuffs. They did everything just to get money. In the Great Depression the dad works a lot for his family. He has to farm foods for so they could eat. Also they work really hard but they don’t get money. That’s why they're poor and they have to work hard to protect their family. The Great Depression weather wasn’t that nice because they have a really dry land.

The Great Depression started around 1930 when the stock market crashed in 1929. This meant that all banks and investors around the U.S. had went into a downward spiral, crippling the financial support of any business that had stocks/bonds were basically run into the ground since they had no income, nor could they sell anything since no-one had the money or credit for it. Companies had to lay off most of their employees since they had no currency to give for their wages, leaving thousands of people out of work and in poverty. The ones laid off had to live off the land and agriculture. This was very difficult since the dustbowl was going on during this time as well. Growing crops while multiple feet of dust are being blown around is highly difficult.

The great depression was a drastic decline in the world’s economy that resulted in mass unemployment and widespread poverty that lasted from 1929 – 1939. During the great depression, a lot of males were unemployed and females had to serve as breadwinners to their families with the little job they had, “in 1931 one in four wage-earners were

The Great Depression was a horrible time in the United States as we have learned through years of history classes. Americans struggled physically and mentally because of the depression. Suicide and admitting to mental hospitals, strain marriages increased during these times. The Great depression affected the relation between ethnic groups; increased competition for jobs which increased hostility and violence;african americans were killed; mexican americans voluntarily left country or were deported.

     The Great Depression was a huge economic downfall in North America and involved many other industrialized countries of the world. The Depression began in 1929 and lasted for about ten years. Millions of people lost their jobs along with many businesses going bankrupt. The common misconception of the Great Depression is people think that the stock market crash was the main cause for it. There were many causes for the Depression; unequal distribution of money during the 1920’s was the main cause of the Depression. This unequal distribution happened on many different classes of people. The imbalance of money is what created such an unstable economy. The stock market was doing much worse than people thought

During the great depression I think that our society thought of themselves as broken because of the state of our economy and the amount of people out of work. The country was at its lowest point having taken the biggest hit to the economy possible. Everyone looked at what was happening and saw nothing but a broken economy and a struggling people. They had to focus on feeding themselves and their family so when it came to time to think what their responsibility was to the rest of the world they couldn’t get over how broken they were so they were no use to anyone else. They were to busy thinking of themselves to be of any help to any other people. When World War two started it pulled our society together once again to face a threat that was more

Suffering and despair came as a result of The Great Depression. Children had health problems due to poor diets and malnutrition and often looked for a way out of the suffering. The men would walk the streets every day in hopes of finding a job, after 2-3 years of suffering some men would even abandon their families. Many women weren’t allowed to work in schools if they were married, people often thought that they were having an easier time than men. People would build shacks out of scrap metals and use newspapers to stay warm. The African Americans, Latinos and Mexicans were the lowest paid and had the highest unemployment rate, they also dealt with racial violence and whites had them