The Aamerican people were in poverty, living in places called Hhoovervilles. Standing in lines for just small portions of food while the children were out begging on the streets for food. Franklin Roosevelt was elected as president. The New Ddeal was just made.The Roosevelt Aadministration was ineffective in helping the people deal with the Ggreat Ddepression.
It was ineffective because when spending was at its highest so was unemployment.
In the 2 graphs unemployment reached its highest at 1933 and so was federal spending(document 13).”The 24 percent unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 was no picnic”(Barry Eichengreen professor of economics at Berkeley College) That shows that the new deal was a waste of money because when spending was at its highest so was …show more content…
. . . My mother went to work. I even worked, playing the piano for dancing class on Saturday mornings for fifty cents an hour. My mother would find a few pennies and we would go to the greengrocer and wait until he threw out the stuff that was beginning to rot. We would pick out the best rotted potato and greens and carrots that were already soft. Then we would go to the butcher and beg a marrow bone. And then with the few pennies we would buy a box of barley, and we'd have soup to last us for three or four days. I remember she would say to me sometimes, 'You go out and do it. I'm ashamed.'"(document 1)
“When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.”(Matthew Quick a writer)Those quotes show that people couldn’t afford much, and they had to beg for food and got evicted because their money was low and they lost their job and didn’t have a steady
It was ineffective because when spending was at its highest so was unemployment.
In the 2 graphs unemployment reached its highest at 1933 and so was federal spending(document 13).”The 24 percent unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 was no picnic”(Barry Eichengreen professor of economics at Berkeley College) That shows that the new deal was a waste of money because when spending was at its highest so was …show more content…
. . . My mother went to work. I even worked, playing the piano for dancing class on Saturday mornings for fifty cents an hour. My mother would find a few pennies and we would go to the greengrocer and wait until he threw out the stuff that was beginning to rot. We would pick out the best rotted potato and greens and carrots that were already soft. Then we would go to the butcher and beg a marrow bone. And then with the few pennies we would buy a box of barley, and we'd have soup to last us for three or four days. I remember she would say to me sometimes, 'You go out and do it. I'm ashamed.'"(document 1)
“When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.”(Matthew Quick a writer)Those quotes show that people couldn’t afford much, and they had to beg for food and got evicted because their money was low and they lost their job and didn’t have a steady