As Franklin D. Roosevelt said“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Thats exactly what americans were doing during the great depression. They feared that they might not have enough food to feed the young ones or enough money to pay for the house. You and your family probably didn't have enough money because of the great depression. Science the stock market crashed the president said the worst was behind us although it wasn't, I was right in front of us, money was scarce so was food. You see mile long food lines for free bread and tomato soup.
The great depression had many effects on the american family. They had no money because they had lost it all in the bank. Now, many of you are probably like “you can't lose money when it’s in the bank!” well, today in modern times you can't. Back then you could put money in the bank but you were not guaranteed to get it back out. Today though you have been guaranteed your money out of the bank, …show more content…
The jobs that men had they either got fired, laid off, cut pay, or they had no pay. Now imagine, you are a man/ women that got laid off there/ your job, what would you do? You can’t find food, you can’t find clothes, clean water is a problem because you can’t pay the water bill, let alone the heating bill. What to do, you could move into one of those camps that you sleep on the floor, ration every dollar,make you children who are only 12 and up move out to free ride get jobs or maybe you didn't even sent them out the left because you couldn't feed them. Sad right? Didn't think about it. No jobs no money no care is what these people were going thru.
In conclusion, The great depression was hard on the american family. The Families going thru this were hit very hard. If you were in that time, what would you do, Kill for money live by the free soup line to get free food. Once the president said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and that's what families
The great depression had many effects on the american family. They had no money because they had lost it all in the bank. Now, many of you are probably like “you can't lose money when it’s in the bank!” well, today in modern times you can't. Back then you could put money in the bank but you were not guaranteed to get it back out. Today though you have been guaranteed your money out of the bank, …show more content…
The jobs that men had they either got fired, laid off, cut pay, or they had no pay. Now imagine, you are a man/ women that got laid off there/ your job, what would you do? You can’t find food, you can’t find clothes, clean water is a problem because you can’t pay the water bill, let alone the heating bill. What to do, you could move into one of those camps that you sleep on the floor, ration every dollar,make you children who are only 12 and up move out to free ride get jobs or maybe you didn't even sent them out the left because you couldn't feed them. Sad right? Didn't think about it. No jobs no money no care is what these people were going thru.
In conclusion, The great depression was hard on the american family. The Families going thru this were hit very hard. If you were in that time, what would you do, Kill for money live by the free soup line to get free food. Once the president said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and that's what families