How did the people (not of wealth) get over the Great Depression?

Question

If you could give me some details for that question, I'd really apreatiate it..... A LOT!

Please and Thank You,
~Desiree~

Answer 1

One step at a time.

Answer 2

They formed Labor Unions. Alone their voices were silent; but when they joined to form Workers Unions, Together they
Forced the play on Business owners and Local Governing Officials. This created a shockwave effect that went all the way to the Nations Capital and even oversea's. They simply Stopped working, grabbed a sign, and demanded a change.
the Wealthy Buisness Owners and the Governing Bodies of this Nation either had to complie or die (Figuratively speaking).
The working class banding together and speaking in ONE VOICE, can definately make things happen. If you look at the Social and Economical situations that followed in Forties and
Fifties,(1940's & 1950's), these were very good times for working class America. Vietnam Era had effected this as
Americans were called into battle VIA "THE DRAFT".
The Economy stayed steady though until Mid to late '67-1970's and Government and Big Business Introdeced the working class to what was labled "INFLATION" They said too much money in the hands of consumers was a bad thing!?!
Then Late 70's to 1983 The second Oil Boom was generated, and once again everything was good for working class America, then once again (too much money for working class America) along with low cattle and grain futures, and Low oil and Feul prices. was a "BAD THING"!?! And you guessed it---"Inflation". They crashed the Market. and many jobs were cut, some sent overseas others to Mexico, Feul prices went on the rise Went up to 1.49 at this time. What was once Boom Towns were now Ghost towns, and people were hurting everywhere. Except the Rich,

Answer 3

I can't believe only 1 answer out of 12 so far has mentioned WWII!!! The New Deal public works basically kept the nation's economy limping along, and did result in some important infrastructure improvement, but didn't really do anything to revive the economy. It wasn't until WWII that there were enough people with enough money (due to the enormous government spending on defense) to allow the economy to begin functioning as normal.

Answer 4

the factors for the melancholy are quite complicated, from wall highway, to interconnected economies, to the authorities, to the Treaty of Versailles, to mom nature herself. Even with out the crash of wall highway there nonetheless ought to were a extreme drought. Redistribution of wealth did not end the drought, mom nature did. It replaced into definitely WW2 (maximum historians do trust this) that extra the international out of the melancholy. The spending with assistance from the authorities in lots of production parts is what allowed the U. S. to go out the melancholy and which allowed the U. S. to have this kind of robust economic equipment after the conflict, no longer authorities initiatives.

Answer 5

People did whatever they could to make money and keep the family and spirit alive. My mother told me of when she was in the first grade and a boy threw half of a sandwich in the garbage and she got it out and ate it. She also tells of eating a lot of cornbread and buttermilk. It was hard. But people found out they werent "too good" to do certain jobs and things to make ends meet. It humbled a lot of people, and it also opened up a lot of new avenues to make sure it would not happen again. But I guess it could. The main thing was, people learned to save, scrimp, and not throw money away on uneeded things. Things became less important than people

Answer 6

There were several ways they made it through. The most help came from government work programs, building this infrastructure was a major part of that work. Unlike today, they worked hard, worked together and help one another and did not sit and wait for the national gaurd to come and save the day.

Answer 7

My grandmother told me this story. "During the Depression it was a terrible time for everyone. We had a lot of our friends homeless and without food. My daddy, a French baker, (he was really a banker who loved to bake bread), would give our friends baked bread. It got the point where strangers were coming to our door. My mother couldn't turn anyone away, gave them bread my father baked." So I guess a lot of people got by in the Depression by others generosity.

Answer 8

They struggled!
They moved in with each other, families came together. They shared what little they had. They did without necessities (let alone the luxuries) A lot of people died due to lack of medical care and hunger. It was a terrible time.
My parents were teenagers in the depression and it colored their thinking their entire lives.

Answer 9

by doing whatever they could to survive they banded to gather as a family and made do with what they had and only worried about where their next meal would come from and didn't stand around waiting for a handout form the government...

Answer 10

well in the city and farm life a lot of people were eating out of trash bins. but in the farm like they had a surplus of goods to sell but no one bought them because no one could afford it. the farmers had to let their crops rot. and had to slaughter all the excess livestock because they had nothing to feed them. nothing got any better until WWII started.