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    The Great Depression had many effects on people in America. If you lived in the 1930s you would have a tough time. Many people were poor in the great depression. Your parents would have lost their jobs and money because many businesses went out due to the stock market crash. You would have lost all your money because due to the stock market crash, various banks went out of funds then closed. The Americans lost so much money.They lost 30 million dollars when the stock market fell. During the Great

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    Various Programs which were made by President Roosevelt and contributed to recovery of the economy and assisted people financially; by providing money, so they can buy their food and housing. The New Deal was important, because it organized to help Americans recover from the Depression. The Three R’s (Relief, Recovery, Reform) Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed at three R’s: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Short-range goals were relief and immediate recovery and long range goals were permanent recovery

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    Great Depression Economy

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    and drove slowly through the sizzling countryside. Not a soul in sight. It was like a funeral. The houses were closed up tight, the blinds drawn, the windows and doors closed…” (Marrin 55). On top of the drought and dust, trillions of dust particles striking against each other made static electricity and caused electrical storms. They were so strong they could knock people down and make barbs on barbed wire fences glow. Animals were sometimes injured. Door handles had to be covered with clothing

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    Still having taste of taste of luxury in their mind but still with the impact of 1929 wall street crash, people are desperate and most of the are wage earning worker are unemployed. Blaming for uneven wealth distribution and purchasing power in 1920s and some blame for World War1 and agricultural fall. But none took the responsibility as there was no insurance. So when people had no work had no money and they did not buy causing economy ground to a halt and became Grate Desperation. History says

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    The period between the stock-market crash of October 1929 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 was dominated by one of the worst economic crises in American history. One observer called the 1930s "years of standstill," when "everybody and everything marked time." The confidence of Americans in progress and prosperity, so marked during the 1920s, suddenly vanished. But hard times were not new, and many Americans had suffered even during the prosperous 1920s, especially workers in textile

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. Once said, “ A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are lungs of our people,”(“Roosevelt”). Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term of governor of New York when he was elected as the 32nd president in 1932(“Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography”). He was known as the symbol of the ongoing Great Depression. March of 1933 people were unemployed Americans and hundred banks were closed due to the Great Depression. That

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    Prince William Forest Park YM Sgt. John Williams Date Established: November 14 1936 Location: Prince William County, Virginia Landmarks: Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine, One day a Baltimore man named John Detrick was hiking along Quantico Creek during which near the meeting of the North and South Forks, he noticed something gleaming in the water. It was Pyrite, known commonly as fool’s gold and Iron Sulfide. One of the great ironies of this area was that Pyrite would prove more profitable than the real

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    October 24, 1929, is a day that will always be remembered as Black Thursday. This is the day that the Stock Markets crashed and caused America to go into The Great Depression. The drop of consumer spending, pile up of unsold goods, and stock prices constantly raising are the reasons for this crash. The downturn in spending and investment caused factories and other businesses to slow down production and construction and start firing employees. As for the ones who were not fired, their wages and buying

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    The Great Depression, the worst economic depression in the history of the United States, began in 1929. There are many who still question what was the cause of this event, and the truth is that there is not just one factor to point to. Instead a combination of events led to the Great Depression. This said, the main cause of the Great Depression was bank failures. 9,000 banks failed during the months following the Stock Market Crash and by 1933, 11,000 of the nation’s 25,000 banks had disappeared

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    The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929. The people never thought that something like the great depression would happen, they weren't prepared for what was ahead. When the Great Depression did hit, the people didn't think it was going to be bad, they didn't expect the great depression to get as bad as it did. As the great depression hit, people were finding it harder and harder to get a job, most people lost there jobs, and farmers were having a tough time making

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