The_Great_Depression

The Great Depression The great depression, the most disastrouseconomic event in United States History, occurred in 1929 after a decade oflavish and carefree living in America. Its remedy became a series of federalprograms instituted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the New Deal. Though most Americans are aware of the Great Depression of 1929, which may well be "the most serious problem facing our free enterprise economic system", few know of the many Americans who lost their homes, life savings and jobs. This paper briefly states the causes of the depression and summarizes the vast problems Americans faced during the eleven years of its span. This paper primarily focuses on what life was like for farmers during the time of the Depression, as portrayed in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and tells what the government did to end the Depression. In the 1920's, after World War 1, danger signals were apparent that a great Depression was coming. A major cause of the Depression was that the pay of workers did not increase at all. Because of this, they couldn't afford manufactured goods. While the factories were still manufacturing goods, Americans weren't able to afford them and the factories farmers, depression, new, people, government, deal, great, roosevelt, out, country, conservative, because, liberal, money, hoover, president, during, act, workers, prices, americans, after, steinbeck, recovery, help, federal, farm, economic, work, time, said, lives, free, economy, began