The Great Depression in Alex Kershaw's 'The Bedford Boys'

Badger, Anthony J. .The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933- 1940. 1989. Reprint. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Print.

After the Great Depression, many Americans were left disheveled. They needed some form of financial assistance to help them get their lives back to normal. Many government officials such as Hurbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt helped to enact bills and programs that would assist Americans in rehabilitating their lives. The amount of unemployed workers, the economic relief for retired workers, and the creation of legislature directed towards financial stability all illustrate that the most important effects that the New Deal legislation had on the American government was a liberal one..

Many consider the Great Depression a tragedy but few actually know the ways in which it actually affected the people who lived through it. One way it affected the people of the time is the hopelessness it brought. During the early 1920's many men returned from the "Great War" jaded and angry. The same effect was seen in most people during the depression. It was this hopelessness that spawned modernist literature and thought. Another way the depression affected the everyday man was the loss of homes. Many homes were foreclosed during the depression and this left many homeless. In fact the "Okies" were people left homeless after farm foreclosures. The last way the depression affected people was the broken homes it caused. The number of father's leaving their families rose dramatically during

I hope you had a nice, relaxing summer. This summer, I read The Boys in the Boat, and i enjoyed the author’s details about The Great Depression. As I was reading, I thought about our US History class and how Daniel James Brown’s description of Hoovervilles (hoovervilles are the main ideas in the first few chapters) related to our classes discussions about the great depression.

The great depression was a terrible time for many families in the United States. After the economic boost of the 1920’s, many people spent their many on stocks and credit. Everything went wrong after the stock market crash on October 29. 1929. People lost the money they had in banks when they panicked and tried to get all their money out at the same time. The banks didn’t have enough money to give back.The Braddock family suffered economic hardship, emotional distress and family unity during the great depression. The Braddock family had trouble with finding money, paying bills, keeping it together- both their emotions and family.

Lawrence Reed is an Austrian economist who holds a Master of Arts in history from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He served as a professor of economics at Northwood University in Michigan from 1977 to 1984, chairing the department for his last three years. He then moved into the world of think tanks, becoming president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He stayed in that job for twenty years before assuming the presidency of the Foundation for Economic Education. He holds honorary doctorates from Central Michigan University and Northwood University.

The Great Depression was a very influential era in American history, affecting many future generations. One of the most prevalent impacts it had on society was the extreme poverty that swept across the nation, affecting both people in cities and in the country. The main cause for this poverty was the mass loss of jobs among the middle class. Millions lost their jobs and consequently their homes. Families lived out of tents and cars in shanty towns or Hoovervilles. In these camps, many people didn’t have their basic human needs met, children and adults alike starved. They lived in clothes that were caked in dirt and tattered, too small for growing children and too cold for the frail elderly. Government relief programs attempted to help but offered little support to the now impoverished families of the millions that lost everything.

During the 1920’s, America was a prosperous nation going through the “Big Boom” and loving every second of it. However, this fortune didn’t last long, because with the 1930’s came a period of serious economic recession, a period called the Great Depression. By 1933, a quarter of the nation’s workers (about 40 million) were without jobs. The weekly income rate dropped from $24.76 per week in 1929 to $16.65 per week in 1933 (McElvaine, 8). After President Hoover failed to rectify the recession situation, Franklin D. Roosevelt began his term with the hopeful New Deal. In two installments, Roosevelt hoped to relieve short term suffering with the first, and redistribution of money amongst the poor with the second. Throughout these years of the

The stock market crash signaled the beginning of the great depression, the crash alone did not cause the great depression but it quickened it arrival. The source of income for this family living in Kansas was difficult because they have a Farm and due to the dust bowl, it ruined that which means no income for the family. The family is affected by the following factors of the great depression because now they can not afford to feed their children and themselves as well, have a clean environment for their children so they don't get sick, be able to promise their children that everything will be okay when in fact everything wasn't in that given time period because anything could've happened. The fact that their is a big amount of children in the family makes it far more difficult to get things done, and possibly travel to a better

Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government?

Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government?

In Cinderella Man, James Braddock and his family demonstrate that the Great Depression was a tough time of unemployment and bankruptcy. On October Twenty Ninth, Nineteen Twenty Nine, the stock market crashed, leaving millions of the United States with little, to no money left in their pockets. Not only that, but the employment rate went up to twenty five percent, making it difficult for poverty-stricken people to find well needed jobs. It was challenging for anyone to provide for their family or put food on the table everyday. Many families ended up in “hoovervilles,” which were shantytowns that accommodated the homeless. Most hoovervilles were particularly dangerous. In relation, James Braddock in Cinderella Man, loses his children once the Great Depression hits, because he can not afford to keep them fed and cared for. James and his family has to move to a poor neighborhood because he could no longer afford his house. To try and provide for his family and find income, James Braddock works at the docks where only a few men get picked each day to do strenuous work for low amounts of money. He pursues the job, even with a

Think about the character you used during the “Living the Great Depression” activity. Is your character male or female? How old is your character? What is your character’s position in life? What is your character’s background? Does your character have other people who are dependent on him or her? Everything about a person and his or her background can influence the thoughts and opinions a person has.

The Great Depression broke people and their relationships apart. It strapped Americans of their money, way of life, and societal pattern. In Russell Baker’s memoir, Growing up, he talks about this and the experience his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, endured when giving up her youngest daughter Audrey. After the death of his father, George Baker, his mother was left with only “a few dollars of insurance money, a worthless Model T, several chairs, a table to eat from… no way to earn a living, and no prospects for the future” (Baker 84). She couldn’t care for her entire

During the Great Depression, a countless amount of people lost their homes and lived in what was called “Hoovervilles” – named after the man who was president at the start of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover (Stephen Feinstein). Many