The document summarizes life during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It describes the Great Depression as a time of poor global economy between 1929-1930s, with over 13 million Americans unemployed. Major causes included people spending beyond their means in the 1920s, the stock market crash of 1929, droughts that caused the Dust Bowl, and countries unable to repay war loans to the US. The effects were widespread unemployment, loss of homes and farms, the creation of shanty towns nicknamed "Hoovervilles", and economic depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to address the crisis through his New Deal programs which provided relief, jobs, and reforms to business and government.