- Tariff: tax on imported goods
Impact if the Great Depression on the U.S Citizens
- Unemployment was a major factor in the Great Depression
- So many people could get a job and pay rent so many of them moved out on the street
- Hoovervilles-shacks made of cardboard, sheet metal and plywood
- People who couldn't afford rent lived in hoovervilles
- Boxcar children- teenagers left their homes and road on trains for a long periods of time
- thought that they were a burden to their family because they were just one more family to feed so they got up and left
- Farmers- went bankrupt and many of them lost their farms
- weather is also terrible for crops-dust bowl
- Starvation- President Hoover didn't take the time to help the homeless with starvation
- Breadlines were formed during the Great Depression
- Supported by churches, missions, and charities
- Laissez Fair-(let alone) government should stay out of businesses
- Rugged Individualism- The people should fight for themselves
- Trickle down Theory-Gov't going to give tax to the rich and in return the rich would create jobs for the poor
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