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 * The Great Depression**
 * In the beginning of the 1900’s, The Great Depression started and caused chaos to rain down upon the citizens of the United States for years. It started in 1929 and ended about a decade later. It caused many problems for everyone and it was a disaster.


 * The Great depression was a time in US History when the economy was horrendous and many people where homeless and out of work after an extreme stock market crash. Banks failed and people lost their life savings, some people even killed themselves because of the horrible devastation. Many people went hungry and relied on soup kitchens to serve. It almost seemed as if the United States hit rock bottom.


 * The official starting date of the great depression was 1929, which was when the stock market crashed and everything started to go wrong for every person in the United States. This great depression didn’t stop for around a decade and even then people where still recovering from the effect it had on everyone.


 * The great depression was caused by two big events. The first one was the unsteady balance of wealth in society. This made more or less people wealthy while more or less people where poor. This only fueled the second reason, which was the stock market crash.


 * This greatly affected every person in the United States. This caused jobs like construction and farmer jobs to be lost, unemployment rate to go up, houses to be lost and many other things. But job loss and all that was most important because those where what effected most people.


 * The new deal was what helped people out of the Great Depression. It helped people gain jobs and money they desperately needed to survive. It helped regulate wages and prices, which helped families with clothing, food and what they needed to raise their families. It also helped many people gain the jobs they needed to support their families and to get money.


 * So The Great Depression caused disaster, horror and chaos for all Americans. It hurt us badly and many people could have suffered more if it hadn’t been stopped. But it was and thankfully we don’t live in it today.





Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm

This is by Molly Y., Ashley G., Alyssa S., and Erin Q.