The United States was thrown into despair on Black Tuesday, October 29th, 1929, the day the stock markets crashed and the official beginning of the Great Depression. Many people began to try and sell their stock, but nobody was buying. The stock market was once thought to be the easiest way to get rich, but later became the path to bankruptcy. The crash of the stock market also caused the closing of many banks. Which made even more people become bankrupt. Many businesses also closed leaving all the workers unemployed. The Great Depression left millions of people out of work. Many people had a hard time finding a local job, so the went on the road looking for work to support them and their families. When they finally would find a job opening, thousands of people would apply all at once making the odds of getting the job very slim. Many farmers would head to California, because they had heard rumors of agriculture jobs. People blamed president Hoover for the Great Depression. At the 1932 presidential election Hoover didn't stand a chance against Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won by a landslide. After Roosevelt took office, he closed all the banks and only allowed them to reopen when they were stabilized. He began to establish programs that were known as the New Deal. The New Deal programs eased the hardships of the Great Depression, however the economy was still really bad by the end of the 1930's. The bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entering of World War II caused a major turn around for the United states. After this, both people and industry became essential to the war effort. Men were trained to be soldiers and women were kept on the homefront to keep the factories going. The entering of the United States into World War II was ultimately ended the Great depression.
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