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Hooverville in The Great Depression
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As I was reading
this week reflection I started to notice how in the early 1920s, the United
States was booming and as the 1920s ended on it started to fluctuate. I know
that the great depression had started because of stock market crashing after
the prices of price stock fell (black Tuesday). While people were taking out their
money in the bank, the bank felled and families couldn’t get to their life
savings. The stock market crash went by so fast and had made a drastic decrease
within families financial stability’s. While reading the circumstances that
Americans had to go through really made me appreciate how there is no more great
depression. Families had to sleep in caves, and sewer pipes. Men had lost
self-respect and started to become alcoholics and more abusive because they couldn’t
hold down the house financially. In the 1930s alcoholism was a major issue same
with abuse so now I understand how the increase in these two things happened
during this time period. During this great depression, big businesses that were
once booming were closing up, families were staving to death, and Hooverville’s
started to be created. One thing I can say that the great depression help out
with was the uniting of families, I liked how families stuck together and the
divorce rates had declined.
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Mexican Americans during the great depression
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An African American women during the great depression
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African Americans
and Mexican Americans struggled the most during the great depression, African
Americans (already having to fight for equal rights and pay) lost a lot within
their own black communities. Big groups of families had to come together in live
in small apartments. Mexican also lost a lot. Mexican Americans lost jobs,
relief, and rights to be treated like a citizen in this country.
President Herbert
Hoover was harshly ridiculed because of his non involvement with trying to help
the great depression. He argued that capitalism was the reason, I can see how capitalism
could be the reason because since not a lot of things were shared, that created
a scarcity within America. Hoover's argument ties along with how we need to work together to gain success (W.EB. Du Bois rise to success theory). When Franklin D Roosevelt made the New Deal, containing relief, reform,
and recovery, it benefited many people in higher positions. Black people and
women were treated unfairly during this new deal act. Black people were excluded
from many relief programs and women were still being looked at as traditional stay
at home moms. It is crazy how war ended the great depression since manufacture
went up. I am glad the great depression ended and I really do pray that it won’t
happen again.
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ReplyDeletei like how you compared events from the 1920's people dont understand that its companies and money crashing is reason why its no stocks markets are dead and people are suffering because the day and age were in just like the 1920's can reoccur anytime look at flint with no water that's a baby great depression in our hands already.
Jazmin, I enjoyed reading your article. I like that it was filled with information about the area, and the reasons why The Great Depression happened. I also agree, I enjoyed reading about families sticking together during the tough time, know a day it feels like many leave their families to suffer when going through hard times, so it was good to see that families stood by each other when they needed it the most. I also like the images used in your blog it helped give visuals of what the Great Depression looked like. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteHi Jazmin, I like the tidbit where you mentioned divorce rates lowered. In a way, it could explain a lot of the mentally stability that was going on at the time. A lot of people were getting divorces at this time do to abuse, so the fact that some people had to suffer do to the need of money explains a lot of relationships today. I can only imagine the hardships they suffered through.
ReplyDeleteYour article was very neat and detailed. It really described more of what these families went through during this time. Like sleeping in cages and sewer pipes? I could not do it. The strength that these families had was astronomical and the fact that African-Americans and Mexicans had to suffer these consequences the most breaks my heart. This country is sorry.
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