Great Depression In The 1930's

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The great depression took place in the 1930’s. It lasted nearly ten years and was happening nationwide. The banks went bankrupt and everyone wanted their money and the banks ran out. People lost almost everything and had to leave their homes and move away. Families lost money and started running out of food. They decided that maybe if they moved it would get a little bit easier, but it didn’t. Their money was gone and it would be very hard to get it back. Most of the people realized that they would never get one hundred percent of their money back.

The families scraped up any penny. The father in the story “digging in” had many different jobs, the mother in the story was able to save as much money as possible. His father worked jobs like
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A cotton cloth was used for cleaning windows, shoe shining, scrub and wax floors, etc. They can turn something so useless into the thing that saves them that extra dollar. The burlap bags could be made into washcloths or even curtains. Every paper bag was saved for a school lunch or even wrapping paper.

They would find someone a year older than him to buy their old school books off of them. The only exception was a spelling book which was used for all eight years so that was the only one they really bought. The ice around there they could buy half a twenty-five pound block of ice which they would put under a place outside that dripped so it would grow. They could only chip off what was needed, and the kids used it mainly for ice tea. These were some little things that could save them a lot of
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They had to plant and hope for rain because they can’t make it rain and they didn’t have enough money to buy the waterers we have for the fields. Farmers in the great depression tried their hardest to stay true to their job. They get nervous every time they have to plant because it can either be a good year or a bad year. In “Debts” the farmer gets very nervous because it hasn’t rained enough in three years to plant crops and have them grow successfully. He gets so mad about his wife not having faith in him as a farmer so he goes outside so they don’t fight. But he has hope and that’s all the farmers in the great depression needed.

In “The New Deal” they are talking about how they made a new system to help people make money again. President Roosevelt was the president at the time so he had to help the people be happy and wealthy. That was hard because, it was a great depression and no one was satisfied until they had their money back. You can’t expect people to be happy when you are taking away everything they ever knew. The banks took away peoples home because they couldn’t pay off the debts because they took all their money and then the stock market