Did everyone suffer equally from the depression?

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Did everyone suffer equally from the depression?

Introduction

The Great depression affected the lives of the American people greatly. The most important thing in many people’s lives was jobs. The Great depression stripped many people of their jobs and left them on the street waiting in line for charity soup. The depression was a source of poverty for many people in America. It was not a depression for everybody though; some people did not get hit so badly.

In this essay, I will outline who suffered from the depression and who didn’t. I will also draw a conclusion if everyone was suffering equally during the depression.

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Many different people suffered from the depression, and some actually didn’t. Below I am outline the two different types.

Farmers were already in a bad state from the actual roaring twenties. This was because the produced lots of excess crops, and there was a lot of surplus. When this happened, the prices of crops fell, and they were not worth much anymore. Therefore, farmers lost out on money and got generally low incomes. Also, when tariffs were introduced, they couldn’t even sell their produce to European or other world markets.

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At the time 25% of the American population were involved in the farming industry someway, so because of this unemployment began. This was particularly bad with Black people, as they did the least skilled jobs, so they were unable to find other jobs.

Because of the depression, less people bought their food, and so prices went down even more, and farmers lost all profit. Soon it cost more to transport food than the actual prices of food.

So because of this, farmers could not pay their mortgages, and when the Sheriffs and mortgage collectors came, farmers started to ...

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