Hooverville

During the 1920’s everything in the United States was at an all-time high; the income of the nation increased from $61 billion to $87 Billion and factories started to use machines quickening the work pace and production value. The people also began to invest in the stock market which underwent rapid expansion and reached its peak during August of 1929. By the time anyone noticed what was happening, the stock market already started to decline and the unemployment rate started to rise; with…

By 1920’s, after world war 1, America had the biggest wealth in the world. Any country had the same wealth that America had, but this was close to the end. In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash occurred. Beginning one's of the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in America’s history, the great depression. At Black Tuesday a record 16 million of share were traded. Millions of shares ended up worthless, and those investors who had bought stocks “on margin” (with borrowed money) were…

One of the most extreme actions taken was to burn down the “hoovervilles”. The poor migrants bonded together in these “hoovervilles” because they have no other places to stay. They would find an area on the edge of a city and camp together, making shelter out of scraps and garbage. The Joads were in one of these at one point but left after hearing…

Hooverville - During the Great Depression many people were driven out of their homes. Many Americans turned to government assistance for help, but they failed to provide ease. Shantytowns appeared and multiplied across the country. The finger pointed at President…

Families had to all move in together and they relied on the one or two family members who could find work for food and rent. People were hungry,sick and disease was starting to spread. There were shacks made out boards and boxes, these were called Hoovervilles. America was ready for a…

deteriorate, around 400 banks shut their doors in the faces of people. According to Document 1, poverty became rampant as the unemployment rate rose to a staggering 20 percent by 1932. Millions of people became homeless and many were forced to reside in Hoovervilles, which were shantytowns in which people lived in extreme poverty. Many of these residents were minorities, such as African-Americans, people with emotional problems and the elderly. In 1939, an author named John Steinbeck wrote a…

"They 's lots a things 'gainst the law that we can 't he 'p doin" (Steinbeck 571). In John Steinbeck 's The Grapes of Wrath, the hardships that migrant farmers faced during the Great Depression are portrayed by the fictional Joad family. While traveling with his relatives, Tom Joad tries to put his past crimes behind him but ends up getting into situations where the law comes into question. Similarly, Huck in Mark Twain 's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn breaks the law by helping a runaway…

now just like everyone around us. As I looked down I could see my ribs sticking out, the piece of an apple I ate to today did not satisfy my hunger; albeit it was the first food I had in three days. The lack of food was because of where I lived, Hooverville, it was where the cardboard houses were abundant, yet the food was scarce, and there was a copious amount of unemployment. My mother, being one of the unemployed, had sold everything valuable she owned for barely 50 cents when she first lost…

Until FDR no one could help fix it. Many people blamed President Hoover for it and even named the homeless shelter areas Hoovervilles. Roosevelt was the candidate with the best plan to fix it. Then in 1939, WWII broke out and Roosevelt was the leader the U.S. needed. In his chats, he talked directly to the people of the US through radio broadcasts from the white house. He explained…

their furniture on the sidewalk” (Hayes). People started making small, geto, unsanitary shelters, “In larger cities, the homeless congregate in abandoned lots and constructed makeshift “homes” of scrap wood” (Hayes). They called these shelters hoovervilles. They called it this because they blamed president Hoover for the great depression. The shelters were not the…