What was the great depression about?
The Great Depression was a crash in the economy that lasted from 1929 to 1939. This was when the United States stock market crashed on October of 1929. It sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investments. In the years that followed, consumer spending and investment dropped. This caused declines in industrial production and increased levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off their workers. In 1933, the Great Depression reached its lowest point; 13-15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. The economy would not have fully turned around had it not been for World War ll. It kicked the American industry into high gear.
The U.S was in depression for 10 years. It made the American people ask themselves, "is this was the end of the American Dream?" The people that were unemployed went to soup kitchens to get food. So many people were left without a home to live in. If you were fortunate enough to have a job, you worked very hard to keep it. There wasn't time to sit around and sob about losing everything you had. You just had to get up and work your butt off to get stuff done and make the world a better place than what it was at the time.