Question 2= what impact did the Stock Market Crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the U.S.?
Children:
- Children would write to the president for help for shoes, clothing, and money
- Boxcar kids- Children that ran away from home and lived on railroads.
- Child Labor Laws formed
- Ran from home
- Girls dress like boys to help themselves
Women
- Men and women were affected differently
- men felt like failures
- Women felt as if their household jobs were enhanced
- Not a lot of money to live off of
Men:
- Men went around looking for jobs
- ended up giving up on looking for jobs
- A lot of times men left their homes, wife, and children because of embarrassment
Families
- Marriage were put off because they couldn't afford the ceremony
- divorces were put off
- birth rates dropped because they couldn't afford it
- Many families were stressed
- tested how strong the families were
- tore many families apart
- family income dropped %4
Farmers:
- Corn prices dropped
- farmers burned their corn because of coal being to expensive
- grew their own vegetables, and had cows for food
- bartering
- children wore clothes made out of flour sacks
Wealthy People:
- Not affected
- %40 country was not affected
- they tried to help the poor people
- didn't notice others suffering
- some lost a lot of money in the stock market
- Flaunted their wealth more
- many rich people still had a lot of money, and didn't lose anything
Living Conditions:
- Hoovervilles- a town made from any kind of material found because they couldn't afford a house
- homeless- living anywhere they could including park benches and under news papers for blankets
Jobs:
- More and more people looked for jobs, and white men usually got the jobs
- Women were usually fired due to the fact that it was thought that they were taking jobs from the men
- getting a job was essential to living at the time, otherwise they didn't have food, or clothing, and lost their houses
Dust Bowl
- Drought and over plowing
- lasted 8 years
- overproduction of crops and crop prices lowered
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