The_Depths_Of_The_Depression

The Depths Of The Depression Life during the Great Depression was a living hell. Those individuals hardest hit by the economic uproar were the farmers. The lengths to which the American people were pushed to in order to survive were unnatural and gruesome, even for a third-world country. “In 1931, Cameroon, in West Africa, sends New York a check for $3.77 to help the starving” (Allen 58). The desperation that people in the U.S. experienced while trying to survive during the Great Depression contributed to the loss of innocence of this great nation. The Great Depression was possibly the worst and most traumatizing time in our nation’s history, but the lessons learned will not be forgotten. The Great Depression was caused by more than the infamous stock market crash of 1929. The monetary society had become too lax with giving credit. Banks were lending money that they did not have. As people lost faith in the economy, they reduced their unnecessary spending. This lead to a chain reaction of stores and factories laying off employees because of a lack of demand of their products. These layoffs led to more people with less money who would certainly not buy any unnecessary products; they could barley afford people, depression, great, farmers, time, money, however, failed, economic, because, work, security, sea, savings, prices, president, off, lives, hit, even, banks, worst, without, while, watkins, social, rate, out, order, manchester, looking, life, less, led, layoffs, jobs