How Did The Hoover Dam Impact People?

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America has had a huge impact on people and America has built many memorable places that were during many hard times like the great depression. America also had some positive and negatives. America has a good environment and they have had made it through the hard times. For example, unemployment. Lastly, America has made it over the cold war which was surprising. We will go into more of the America stuff now.

The Hoover Dam is the most impactful because the Dam has caused massive problems for farmers. The Dam destroyed all the topsoil, and it destroyed all the plant crops and that had a huge impact on the farmers when the dam was released and finished. The Dam was built during the great depression and that meant that they have to deal with unemployment. During the great depression, many people did not have jobs and that happened because of the stock market crash in October 1929 and that has made people panic. The dam had a budget of 49 million dollars in 1931. But, in 2016, it had a whopping 639 million dollars! The Hoover Dam is also impactful because the Hoover Dam has destroyed the ecosystem. That means that it has killed many animals due to the dam. But the
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Kennedy has caused many problems in the United States. For example, the cold war. John F. Kennedy was a man who was calm and cool and he was handling the Soviet and Khrushchev with discussions and that turned into a cold war. Khrushchev turned to Kennedy and he respected Kennedy and he could trust him and deal with him. After John F. Kennedy’s death, the Soviets are back too aggressive and they continued their mistrust with America. Lastly, the cold war could’ve been very warm if John F. Kennedy was not assassinated. This is the most impactful out of the five because when kennedy was still alive, Khrushchev did not turn on america. When Kennedy died he became aggressive and he turned back on America

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