The Great Depression was the longest-lasting and most sever depression experienced by the Industrialized western world. It all began on October of 1929‚ when the stock market crashed. This caused the Wall Street to start to panic and even wiped out many investors as they began to dump all of the shares that they had owned (History.com). People however were not just getting rid of all of their stocks‚ but they were also starting to become unemployed. This was because many businesses could not afford
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The Great Depression The Depression Begins People often look back on the Roaring Twenties as a time of unbroken prosperity and optimism. The 1920s were remembered as a decade for easy money and high standards of living‚ short skirts and raccoon coats‚ jazz music and the Charleston‚ American gangsters and Canadian rum-runners‚ fast cars and bathtub gin. In the last years of the 1920s‚ most Canadians were unprepared for the abrupt end to the boom and the optimism that they had enjoyed throughout
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Karen Rusli Rusli 1 HIST 338 Dr. Bryan Lamkin 24 May 2013 California During the Great Depression The 1930s was not the best time period for California‚ the U.S.‚ or the world. When the stock market crashed in 1929 in the United States‚ it set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. On top of all of that‚ a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains in 1931 just two years after the stock market crashed. This became known as the Dust Bowl. In the Dust Bowl‚ crops
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Although you probably have at least heard of the Great Depression‚ there are things about people‚ food‚ and entertainment you probably don’t know. People had hard lives‚ food was hard to get‚ and entertainment was one of the few things that kept people going. This paper will show how some people struggled‚ how people saved food and what they ate‚ and what people had to entertain themselves. During the Great Depression the families suffered a lot. Marriage was not faring to well‚ divorce rates were
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Notes on Smuggling moonshine during prohibition -http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441 Enforcing the law proved almost impossible. Smuggling and bootlegging were widespread. Two New York agents‚ Izzie Einstein and Mo Smith‚ relied on disguises while staging their raids--once posing as man and wife. Their efforts were halted‚ however‚ after a raid on New York City’s 21 trapped some of the city’s leading citizens. In New York‚ 7‚000 arrests for liquor law violations
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Patrick crane Lewis 5 People during The Great Depression Seven million people died during The Great Depression due to starvation. Many of those that did survive did so due to the goodwill of others. If they didn”t find the support of others‚ they often died or experienced very unpleasant lifestyles. The unemployment rate was 24 percent and many people didn’t have a lot of money which meant they could not afford to feed their families‚ so their kids often left home to find work. Because
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M Warner History April 23th‚ 2013 Canadian Life during the Great Depression Canadians were faced with many challenges during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The biggest challenges were the drought in the prairies‚ unemployment and being able to provide. It was a tough time to live in for Canadians and many other people around the world. Firstly‚ one of the challenges Canadians faced during the Great Depression was the disastrous drought in Saskatchewan. Canadians had to face the bitter
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The social effects during the great depression. In the early 1930’s there was the great depression. This was caused when the market went into recession and did not recover causing the markets to crash and people lost all of their money. The great depression effected all of the people in many ways‚ one of the ways was socially. Firstly: The most effected people were the working class. Secondly: The class which was effected a little was the middle class. Finally: The class which was hardly effected
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One of the worst times in United States history was the Great Depression. It was a time of hopelessness and of darkness. The 1920s was considered the gold ages for the United States‚ we were expanded on both technology and the economic. But 1929 the stock market crashed and everything went down. Banks were closing‚ people were getting fired from job The people started to question the government and the president. It took the great attitude of the citizens‚ the election of President Roosevelt‚‚ and
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Life during the Great Depression was harsh and full of tragedies. This economic crisis affected many things‚ but the things it hit the hardest were schooling and education. School systems had to completely change to overcome the obstacles the Great Depression through at them. Many things in education were affected at this dark time such as‚ teachers lives‚ what they taught and student’s attendance. During the Great Depression jobs were hard to come by and very hard to keep. One of the hardest
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