The Great Depression in the United States

In this essay, the author

• Explains that the era of the 1930s through the 1940s was a time of despair for all americans. it was caused by various reasons and left an impact on america to this day.
• Explains that the dust bowl was a horrific event for the people in the 1930's. it destroyed millions of acres of land and ruined several homes.
• Describes the dust bowl as a man-made and natural disaster that damaged america's agriculture in the prairies.
• Explains how poor farming methods led to massive dust storms. in 1934, a two-day storm removed large amounts of topsoil in buffalo, boston, cleveland, new york, and washington d.c.
• Explains that the black blizzards turned days to night. dead animals were covered in two inches of dirt. one storm even left 12 million pounds of dust in chicago.
• Explains how the bad weather caused 5,000 americans to move or be homeless during the dust bowl. they describe how california's police established a bum-blockade at its borders to keep migrants out.
• Explains that wages were too low to get migrants out of poverty. tulare county had two children dying each day and fifty babies died of diarehea and enteritis in one picking season.
• Explains how the federal surplus relief corporation (fsrc) slaughtered pigs to stabilize prices, and planted trees across the great plains.
• Explains that the drought ended in 1939 and regular rainfall increased land value. the dust bowl helped sustain a positive relationship between the government and the farmers.
• Explains that the american crisis was famously known as the great depression. it was a period of high unemployment rates, low productivity, bankruptcy, foreclosures, bank failures and homelessness.
• Explains that the stock market crash of 1929 was the most major cause that led to the great depression. the dow jones industrial average fell by 13% in less than eight weeks and lost 89% after black tuesday.
• Explains that banks began to fail immediately after the stock market crash, leaving banks with no or little money to give to businesses and farmers. because the banks failed, they eventually shut down.
• Explains that banks stopped giving loans as freely as they used to. businesses and farmers went broke, making america's banking crisis even worse.
• Explains that people were worried about their money, so they started saving it. this led to a lower number of items being produced in factories.
• Explains how the great depression impacted the lives of families. the west african nation of cameroon gave america three dollars and seven cents in relief.
• Analyzes how the hawley-smoot tariff, an american economic policy with europe, was supposed to improve america's economy, but instead it made it suffer even more.
• Explains that hoover tried to decrease the unemployment rate by creating more jobs, but it made the economy suffer even more than it already had.
• Analyzes the effects of the great depression on the economy, unemployment, and people's lives.
• Explains how the great depression affected countries such as germany, france, south africa, and canada. these countries depended on america's trade and went into some small crisis.
• Explains that the great depression took a lot of hard work to get america back to where it used to be. president hoover failed to do anything effective to help rebuild the america, and franklin delano roosevelt got elected easily.
• Describes how fdr shut down all banks until they were stabilized, and established the new deal, which helped improve america's economy and got it back on track.
• Explains that the great depression didn't end until world war ii, when people and industries worked hard to provide supplies for the war. congress cut top income tax rates from 94% to 82% and repealed the excess profits tax.
• Opines that the great depression was a struggle for america, but america fought back and found solutions to the problem.