A Look Back On The Great Depression

Of 1936 Essay, Research Paper

A Look Back on the Great Depression of 1936

The Great Depression was a time of tremendous poverty and depravation.

It put many hard-working men and women out of their jobs and sources of income.

It left many wholesome, decent, families out on the street, homeless; their

pride and dignity stripped of them. Many people would be left to starve,

without money to buy food or pay for shelter. Some people even turned against

their own friends so that they could support their families. Many became

oblivious to the needs of others and thought only of how they themselves could

benefit.

As the days went by, the number of people with illness and disease

increased, and with little money for food or medicine to treat their needs, they

had to suffer or die because they could not afford the treatment necessary for

them to get better. Because of the Great Depression, the cost of many items

went up to an extreme amount if money, thus, even more people could not afford

simple everyday things.

Though there were many factors that helped cause the Great Depression,

the main cause of it was the huge stock market crash that occurred in 1929.

Many people lost a lot of money when the market crashed.

Herbert Clark Hoover was president at that time and many people blamed

him, and were very upset about his decisions involving the economy. They dealt

with their anger by not reelecting Hoover, but instead, electing Franklin Delano

Roosevelt for president the next time around. He was the one who helped get

the economy back in shape by creating a program called the “Big Deal.” The Big

Deal was a government funded program that gave jobs to the jobless, and homes to

the homeless. In return for getting the economy back in shape, FDR was elected

again for another term and yet another four years.