Throughout the The Great Depression President Hoover was blamed for the mess, the Democratic Party quickly took every opportunity to bash Hoover for the economical crisis. After being fed up with all the talk about him Hoover quickly diverted the blame to immigrants, this caused a snowball effect. This scapegoat caused tension between natives and immigrants and immigrants and immigrants, furthermore causing race separation. Many people started creating ethnic camps where people with similar race or ethnics could join. The tension between race caused problems like in some cases whites would kill blacks employees in order to take their jobs. In fact, the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, published by U.S. History in Context, elaborates on an instance in which white unionized workers along with railroad brotherhoods “intimidated, attacked and murdered [Black] firemen in order to take their jobs” (Blackstar). Many people used scapegoating was a mean degrading peoples reputation in order to take their jobs. The Great Depression had affected Americans and nations around them. It was the time of great poverty across the nation, many people being unemployed and in poor health. Since the government didn’t set up a plan for the catastrophe, many homes were lost and tent camps and shack towns began to appear. One of the campsites called Hooverville was in honor of the President whom they blamed for the Depression. Many people disliked the harsh and filthy environment they had to live in. Hundreds of thousands of the unemployed roamed the country on foot and in boxcars in futile search of jobs. Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many. People outraged of why they were going hungry in a country possessing huge food abundance. Blaming Wall Street, Hoover administration, and banks for poverty many protest and organized a "hunger march". The (UCL) or Unemployed Citizens League acted fast and quickly created programs like the self-help production. The self-help was a program to ensure cooperation between each other to …show more content…
Although, both events have been put in the past, hysteria will more than likely stay with us. As long as there’s someone to blame for your problems there will be scapegoats, and hysteria. The people during The Great Depression created pandemonium and more problems than needed. They struck fear in people when people started to perform crimes like mugging and killings. Both events can be in a nutshell quickly summed up is “What you ignore becomes more” (“ T H E A C T U A L I Z E