The Great Depression

Great Depression

• Black Tuesday, October 29,1929
• Stock Markets in the United States started to crash 

Great Depression

• 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed
• Nearly half of the country's banks had failed

Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover was president when the Great Depression began.
• World trades dropped 65%

Great Depression

• Lasted over 16 years 
• stock market crash in 1929, it took 27 years to reach pre-crash level
• More products being made, not very produces selling

Great depression

• Between 1929 and 1932, incomes, on average, were reduced by 40%
• By 1934, one-half of all residential loans were delinquent
• over 1 million families lost their farms
• In 1932 alone, 273,000 families were evicted from their homes.
• Between 1929 and 1932, construction of homes dropped by an incredible 80%

Great Depression

• People with business had to close
• People had to get ride of there children
• soup kitchens helped 

Great Depression

• 50% of the time children did not have food or water 
• 40% of income for familes dropped 

Great Depression

• 25% of people took wages cuts or worked part time
• Stocks lost nearly 14 million dollars

Great depression

• All banks had to close down
• After the stocks crashed susides numbers went up 

Great Depression

• Crimes increased