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Maycomb was a “tired old town...there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...” When the Great Depression started in the 1920’s. There were a bunch of towns like Maycomb, Alabama there were farming, families, a community, and many other things. When the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started the farming shrunk, everyone’s crops were grown and ruin, people started to get destitute and not that many people had food to eat. This was such a tragedy when the Great Depression started. The Great Depression all started when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday in October, in 1929. A lot of people started to owe money to the bank and that everyone might run out of money. …show more content…
The Jim Crow Laws were local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. It enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued force until 1965. The Jim Crow Laws were more than a series of anti-black laws. It made the blacks look bad no matter what they did. If they did something great no one cared because of the Jim Crow Laws. The blacks had to work a lot more than the whites had to work. They had gotten treated unfairly and everyone was rude to them. The Jim Crow Laws also made everything be separate. They made the bathrooms, water fountains, restaurants, buses, and a great amount more being separate. If black man looked at white women they would be lynched by the police. These things happened and it affected the Great Depression. The stock market was the main reason it started and the dust bowl storm ruined all the crops and ruined the farmers job. Also, the Jim Crow Laws affected, it because it was a racist law. It made a ton of the black men and women die. The Great Depression was a rough time for people and especially families. People didn’t have enough food and money to live. The Great Depression was depressing and sad period in the