The great depression was a period in time when the stock market had just crashed and people were losing their jobs. 1 in 4 americans were out of jobs and very few places were even hiring people let alone were still even in busniess. Even the wealth people were being affected by this huge problem. People were doing anything they could to make money even begging for it. Until it was outlawed children were going out to make money for their families. Some families depended on bread lines, a place where goverment workers handed out bread to people who would wait on huge lines for it. Across the country men who could not find job's would take trains and go looking for work they were called hoboes.
Many people blame the stock market crash for the great depression, they say that if the stock market hadn't crash no one would know what the great depression was. Although the stock market did play a role in the cause for the great depression but there are many other things that are a contributor. One cause of the great depression is the rolling twenties, during this time period everyone was interested in having fun and spending money. During this period america had never been making more money but the gap between the rich and the poor just got bigger and bigger.
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