How did the Great depression effect people's lives?
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- How did the Great depression effect people's lives?
- Unemployment
- 13 million lost their jobs by 1932. Between 1929 and 1932 factory production was down by 45%.
- Hobos and Hoovervilles
- Hobos- People who moved from town to town looking for work Hoovervilles- Shanty towns made out of found materials such as cardboard where Homeless people lived. The name is a sarcastic reference to the president who many felt was not doing enough
- Farms
- By 1932 1 in 20 farmers had lost their farms. Furthermore, it was especially bad for fruit farmers as people couldn't afford as much fruit.
- Bread lines
- Charities set up soup kitchens where people lined up in large ques called 'Bread lines' by 1932 YMCA was giving away 12,000 free meals a day in a small district in NY
- Hoover's response
- He believed America would recover by it's self as he was a rugged individualist. In 1930 he cut taxes by $130 million and in 1932 he made $300 million available to states so they could help the unemployed
- Protests
- Biggest protest took part in 1932 when 25,000 ex-soilders marched on Washington DC and asked for their war pension early but Hoover set the army on them
- Unemployment
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