Coping with The Great Depression

The Great Depression was between the years 1929 and 1939. It was one of America's worst tragedies where the stock market crashed and the economy sunk. Most Americans became poor and needed to sacrifice a lot of things.

1. Selling Jewelry and clothing to get money
2. Giving up the luxury of dental care and not being able to afford medicine
3. Moving from a good house to a little apartment
4. Only owning one pair of socks and drying them in the oven
5. Kids sleep together in the kitchen
6. Not paying bills which leads to electric and heat being shut off
7. Giving breakfast to the kids and rationing food
8. Not being able to pay for milk so they add water to milk
9. Sending children to relatives
10. Fighting while injured and covering injuries to get jobs

Men trying to get a job for the day

A kitchen during this time

People living in poverty

People lining up outside the State Employment Service Office

Relief line waiting for commodities