Was The Great Depression Good Or Bad
The Great Depression-how bad did it get?
The Great Depression presented the people of the United States of America Trial upon trial in almost every aspect of life. The Great Depression, while getting its name from the economic cycle, was truly a depression in every sense of the word. Times were tough for almost every single family if not worse. This was exceptionally difficult after the prosperous 20’s that was surely an economic expansion and then boom. The final months of the 1920s were spent in rapid contraction and recession that morphed into a true and well great depression. The dramatic catalyst of The Great Depression was the stock market crash of 1929. This caused an enormous amount of panic amongst the general population as it had been very …show more content…
Mother Nature also seemed to be feeling the depression. The Manifest Destiny mantra that had taken over the hearts of many Americans and driven them to move west to make their livelihoods through farming, backfired as the Dust Bowl settled over the nation’s middle. Thousands of farms were decimated and their owners fled west to California in hope s of finding a new job. These “oakies” flooded the western state with their furniture and worldly possessions only to be homeless and jobless. One such person was captured famously with three of her children. Migrant Mother the photograph taken by Dorthea Lange is perhaps the most recognized symbol of the 30s. Although the woman is only 32 years of age, her face is lined with stress and worry. The look in her eyes is forever sorrowful and desperate. Woody Guthrie sang of the tragedies and hardships of the time. His lyrics include the loss of all his possessions and family members. Although The Great Depression only lasted a decade, the American People were forever affected by it. A generation developed a strong fear of banks, a very strong work value and the tendency to squirrel their
The Great Depression presented the people of the United States of America Trial upon trial in almost every aspect of life. The Great Depression, while getting its name from the economic cycle, was truly a depression in every sense of the word. Times were tough for almost every single family if not worse. This was exceptionally difficult after the prosperous 20’s that was surely an economic expansion and then boom. The final months of the 1920s were spent in rapid contraction and recession that morphed into a true and well great depression. The dramatic catalyst of The Great Depression was the stock market crash of 1929. This caused an enormous amount of panic amongst the general population as it had been very …show more content…
Mother Nature also seemed to be feeling the depression. The Manifest Destiny mantra that had taken over the hearts of many Americans and driven them to move west to make their livelihoods through farming, backfired as the Dust Bowl settled over the nation’s middle. Thousands of farms were decimated and their owners fled west to California in hope s of finding a new job. These “oakies” flooded the western state with their furniture and worldly possessions only to be homeless and jobless. One such person was captured famously with three of her children. Migrant Mother the photograph taken by Dorthea Lange is perhaps the most recognized symbol of the 30s. Although the woman is only 32 years of age, her face is lined with stress and worry. The look in her eyes is forever sorrowful and desperate. Woody Guthrie sang of the tragedies and hardships of the time. His lyrics include the loss of all his possessions and family members. Although The Great Depression only lasted a decade, the American People were forever affected by it. A generation developed a strong fear of banks, a very strong work value and the tendency to squirrel their