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Submitted by cptslapahoe on April 24, 2006
Category: American History
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The Great Depression had a major effect on most American family’s during that time and some long after. Due to the Great Depression many family’s lost there jobs and soon after there homes. Family’s were forced to move westward to try and find work. Family’s that still had jobs could not survive much longer because wages were cut. Banks went out of business, and family’s that had money in banks lost it all.
When the stock market crashed millions of people were out of jobs and it put them on the streets looking for jobs in other industries that were already over employed. Family’s that were employed in the stock market were so used to living a higher class life with expensive houses and expensive possessions that when the stock market crashed they were so depending on there valuables that they could not live without them. These family’s ended up on the streets and most of them died due to starvation.
Family’s with jobs in other industries like factories first suffered from pay cuts. Since millions of people were out of jobs due to the stock market crash that meant less people spending money and less people buying products from other manufactures. Since manufactures were selling less then they do not need to produce as much of there products, therefore they do not need as many employees. So the manufactures fire many employees and then they gave pay cuts to the rest of there employees.
Family’s that owned farms suffered when people from other industries like factories and people that worked in the stock market lost there jobs because people couldn’t afford food if they didn’t have jobs. Therefore stores did not buy as much product from farms. For farms, there product is there only source of income, so if there only selling half of there product then that means half of there land is going unused and there losing
money on it. Eventually farms started losing
so much money that they could not afford there land or...
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