Great Depression Dbq Research Paper

The Great Depression was a time for America that was in poverty. US citizens were homeless and jobless. Two long term effects of the Great Depression were the farming situation and bank. Before the Depression, a lot of farmers were over producing crops. This was for the war effort to support all the soldiers fighting. Farmers wanted to keep growing crops; they did this by removing all the weeds and grass to farm more crops. However the soil’s nutrients were all gone and unable to grow more crops. Bad soil mixed with the heavy and devastating dust storms, created many problems for farmers. Farmers were unable to grow many crops for the nation. Another reason why the nation went into poverty is due to all the banks. As soon as the …show more content…
During the Depression many families had kids that wanted money from their parents. The parents were unable to give the kids money since the entire family had no money. Based on Document 1, a young kid was able to work to get paid. This made the kid work for their money to support the family and him/her. The New Deal made it possible to have anyone able to work, to get paid and support their own needs and their family. The more money the family was able to get from anyone, made it possible to support each other and get a better life again. Besides kids working, there were also men and women trying to get a job to support their family. Before the New Deal, there was a lot of Americans that were unemployed. On Document 5, there are two graphs that show you how much the unemployment rate changed through the years of 1933-1945. At the start of the Depression, the unemployment rate was really high. As FDR made more laws and programs, the unemployment rate slowly went down. Eventually the unemployment rate was not so high anymore. Both graphs show that all the programs and laws did help the unemployment rate drop significantly. Men, women, and kids are the only people able to work to support the family; however, the elderly were the only type of people that were unable to work due to their physical condition. Based on …show more content…
Some of the failures of the New Deal were that it leads the government into debt, there was a chance that all the New Deal programs were not working a lot, and African Americans were not targeted for many of the programs. FDR use try anything approach for the New Deal and made many laws and programs. But to make all these laws enforced and programs to be made, a lot of money needed to be invested. In Document 3, shows a graph showing how much the US government spent in one year. AS each year passed from 1930, the US government almost went in debt. A lot of money was being used to help all the people of the US. The US government and FDR did a lot to help the people to get a better life again, but it made the US in debt. Even though the money was spent on a good cause, but there was too much spent on programs. Even though there were programs being made, there was a possible chance that all the programs being made were not working for some people. In Document 4, is a political cartoon showing that FDR and a maid (Congress) trying to treat Uncle Sam’s (America) sickness (Great Depression). FDR already gave Uncle Sam a lot of medicine (New Deal’s laws and programs) that could cure the sickness. FDR talking to the maid, saying that if the medicine that was already given to Uncle Sam is not working, there is a possible chance that they need to change the medicine. By