Reading about the “Americans Write to their Leaders” has helped me understand what people were going through during the great depression. The letters that people wrote all showed concern the American was going in the wrong direction and that they wanted Roosevelt to solve it. The American people wrote to President and First Lady Roosevelt to let the know what they’re going through and to express their feelings. They also asked them for help on making more jobs. Americans were worried about getting a job and keeping it. For example, a little boy from Chicago wrote to the Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt to tell them “My father hasn’t worked in 5 months” (Pg. 197) this was a hard thing for that family at the time. Not having a job will lead to not paying
