the great depresssion
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The Great Depression.
Felicia LemoineAnnie Sergi
Victoria LassiegneThu Phan
Economics of the Great Depression
Unemployment during the Great Depression increased extravagantly, sending families into poverty. Companies and families were far into debt, and so was the country. One of the economic factors of the depression was the use of the economic system called credit.
Social Effects of the
Great Depression
When people lost their jobs, they lost money to pay for their mortgages, leaving people homeless. They lost
money to pay for food, leaving families hungry. They lost money for necessities,
increasing daily struggles.
Politics of the Great Depression
Hebert Hoover31st President:
1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President:
1933-1945
Culture During the Great Depression
The lives of people provided influence for the arts during the Great Depression,
such as the mural to the right.
Newspapers became increasingly popularas a source to receive updates about
the government and its leaders.
Life for African-Americans got even more strenuous. Though many African-Americans lived in poverty
before the great Depression, their living situations worsened as the property owners they worked for
lost their land.
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