The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a major world-wide depression. It is difficult for modern Americans to understand the effects of that depression or the way it affected those Americans who lived through it. The least we can say is that all but the poorest of families today are wealthy compared to the average American family during the Great Depression.
During the Great Depression:
1. Almost everyone walked. Parents walked to work, families walked to church, and children walked to school.
2. There was no money for new clothes or new shoes. If your shoes got a hole in them, you put a piece of cardboard inside your shoe and kept wearing them. Most children wore hand-me-down clothes, cast-offs from an older sibling or relative. It didn't matter if they were boys clothes or girls clothes or even if they fit right.
1. Read what Wikipedia has to say about the Great Depression.
2. Visit a web site with a timelime and much other info on the Great Depression.
3. More information on the Great Depression.
4. View many photographs of the Great Depression.
Copyright 2007 by Dan Oja