The Great Depression began with the collapse of the stock market in 1929. Over the next few years, stock prices continued to fall, ruining individual investors and straining banks. By 1933, over 11,000 of the 25,000 US banks had failed. As companies laid off workers, unemployment rose rapidly and many families lost their homes or could not afford food. President Hoover was unable to improve the economy, but President Roosevelt implemented new policies that helped end the Depression. The US economy rebounded during World War II as production increased to meet war demands.

1. The Great Depression(1929-1939) 6/2/09 Isaiah Aneke Period 3

2. Introduction The Great Depression began with a catastrophic collapse of stock market prices on the New York stock exchange in October 1929. The following 3 years the stock prices continued to fall; this not only ruined thousands of individual investors, but caused a tremendous strain on banks an other financial institutions. This caused many banks to go into insolvency, and by 1933 11,000 of the U.S 25,000 banks had failed.

3. The Great Depression The crash in stock caused companies to begin laying off their workers; this resulted in families not being able to pay for their home and ending up either selling their house or being forced out. The unemployment rate was rapidly rising and more and more people were becoming homeless, with barely enough money to feed themselves.

4. The Great Depression Men were leaving their family for the convience of nobody other than themselves to look after. Even alone though the men had no lace to stay and some were left sleeping in parks, homeless shelters, and other areas that were difficult to live in.

5. The great Depression Many of the woman and children were left to take care of themselves as there husbands had run off on their own.

6. The great depression Some families had to move into make shift homes, such as this one, to have a place to live.

7. The great depression People were having to wait in long lines to receive either food or to get into a shelter.

8. The great depression President Herbert Hoover was the president at the beginning of The Great Depression. He was said to have been a terrible president that had done nothing in his term of office.

9. The great depression President Franklin D. Roosevelt took over the office in a landslide election. He served as a good president who had also greatly impacted in ending The Great Depression.

10. The great depreesion The end to The great Depression came with World War II. Nations began to increase their production of war materials; which provided more jobs and put large sums of money back into circulation.

11. Conclusion After The Great Depression the stock market went back to the way it was prior to the depression.

12. Conclusion People were able to return to their jobs, thus receiving income, resulting in them being able to buy back their homes, and ending in families being brought back together.

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