US+Current+Events+in+1930s

1930s Americans were still recovering from the Valentine’s Day Massacre and World War I. More than 800 banks closed their doors between September and October 1931 because of the Stock Market Crash, which caused bankruptcy. The 1930s was a tough time for everyone, especially farmers who’s whole lives depended on their crops. || Unemployment Line in 1930s ||
 * The 1930s was a very depressing time; hence it was called the Great Depression. Many people came to depend on the government or charity to provide them with food.In the 1930s the number of unemployed people had reached 13,000,000! In the early

In the later 1930s people who were able to listen to the radio came upon a station giving a “news” cast of an alien invasion. It was later found out that this alien invasion was only a story called War or the Worlds’ by H.G. Wells. In 1933 Francis Perkins became the first female Secretary of Labor. In 1936, people who didn’t have much money in the first place had to pay taxes so that the Hoover Dam could be finished. In 1933 there was a law passed that banned all liquor, so people made their own liquor in their bath tubs, they called this concoction Moonshine. The Great Depression finally ended when President Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with a new plan called the New Deal.



Life as a farmer in the 1930s was very difficult because they had a lot to deal with. If you were a farmer living in Kansas you were living right in the middle of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a horrible drought. During the drought the ground was so dry that the dirt would just blow away. Being a farmer they depended on people buying their crops and with the lack of money the price of their crops decreased but they were at an advantage because they raised their own food. Neighbors would help each other through droughts and illnesses because not many people in the dustbowl could make it on their own. The dust storm destroyed crops leaving farmers with little or no money to buy groceries or make farm payments and many lost hope and moved away.

By Sarah Castleberry and Rosharon Musser