All of the hype for the stock market in the roaring twenties lead people to believe that money was to be made for everyone. People began borrowing money to buy stock; others took it as far as borrowing on the collateral of their existing stock to buy more stock. Brokers loans went form five million dollars in 1928 to eight hundred fifty million dollars in 1929. Since the optimism was all a false hope investors begin to lose confidence , thus; the stock market crashed and took everybody down with it. This was not the only reason as some may believe. The government play

Thousands of people went hungry during this period. Many children suffered long term effects for poor diet and inadequate health care. Quite a few people ate berries that the find in the wild and had to grow their own food; others sold pencils and apples in the city to play for their meals. Land owners planted “relief gardens” for food and to barter with. Living conditions of families changed when they were forced to be able to fit many families into a small apartment or house. Divorces and weddings went down because nobody could afford them any more. Divorces stopped because many families could barely maintain one let alone two. With a lot of men out of work women and children were force to work. Some people thought that the women were taking away jobs from the men , so ; the government encouraged women to take “women’s work.” These jobs were jobs like nursing. With all the problem on the

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, Conservation Corps, Banking Act, Civil Administration, family life, stock market, american people, buy stock,