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"... I have no money, no home, and no wheres to go."

- letter to F.D.R. from Mrs. E.L, 1934, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

During the Great Depression, there was barely any money. People were concerned as to how they could live. People had to live on the streets and could barely afford to eat.

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Mary Poppins Returns is a good movie that represents how life was during the great depression. The plot is that the Banks family is having their home threatened to be taken away from the bank. Through these tragic times, the Banks children found a broken kite and fixed it with some papers. When all hope was lost and the home was about to be lost, they discovered that the paper was a bank interest paper worth enough money to save their home.

"If they come to take my farm, I'm going to fight."

- debt-ridden farmer, in This Fabulous Century

Imagine that you own a piece of land that you are happy with but the government took it away because you had no money. You would feel sad right, well during the Great Depression, this happened to 25% of the U.S. population. This is only those who lost their homes but many more people had barely enough money to survive in their homes.

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A migrant mother who is looked down upon.

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"In California, in particular, the militancy of the Mexican workers - many of whom were active trade unionists and members of the Communist Party - met fierce repression."

- from Beyond the Border: Mexico and the U.S. Today

Even though in my opinion people should have stuck together to get through their hardships, segregation was still a thing. This meant that the lower class (black people) were hit the worst by the effects of the Great Depression. Many of these people were thought to be communists so they were treated poorly by the white citizens.

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A family that has barely enough money to live.

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"I only wants a common living to exist without starving and freezing to death."

- anonymous letter to F.D.R., 1935, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

During the Great Depression, many people could not even afford a life. Many people starved or froze to death in homeless encampments. This is because the government took their money.

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I saw an old cottage of clay,

And only of mud was the floor;

It was all falling into decay,

And the snow drifted in at the door.

Yet there a poor family dwelt,

In a hovel so dismal and rude;

And though gnawing hunger they felt,

They had not a morsel of food.

The children were crying for bread,

And to their poor mother they’d run;

‘Oh, give us some breakfast,’ they said,

Alas! their poor mother had none.

She viewed them with looks of despair,

She said (and I’m sure it was true),

‘’Tis not for myself that I care,

But, my poor little children, for you.’

O then, let the wealthy and gay

But see such a hovel as this,

That in a poor cottage of clay

They may know what true misery is.

And what I may have to bestow

I never will squander away,

While many poor people I know

Around me are wretched as they.

"We were poor. Lord!"

- Depression victim, 1933, in This Fabulous Century

The deprivation of money was so common that people just got used to it. When people were able to realize that they could not support themselves, they freaked out. This shows that the government was not giving enough money like they were supposed to according to the organizations that FDR created.

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The home of the Banks family during the Great Depression.

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"The rag town lay close to water; and the houses were tents, and weed-thatched enclosures, paper houses, a great junk pile."

- from The Grapes of Wrath

Even though some people still lived in nice big houses does not mean that they could afford to live there forever. In a lot of films that take place in this time period, the houses are somewhat decent even though the majority of people didn't even have enough money to get food.

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Mr. Dawes Junior dancing out of joy because he helped save the Banks family.

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" Us people has got to stick together to get by these hard times."

- large migration family, in This Fabulous Century

Throughout the Great Depression, people were struggling to live. A solution that some people had was to stay together as a community and take care of each other. This idea was really good and allowed a lot of people to survive through the tough times.

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"I'll work for fifteen [cents]. I'll work for food."

- from The Grapes of Wrath

Money was so scarce during the Great Depression that people were willing to do anything for money. This was mainly shown through tons of manual labor. This was really hard to provide though because of the dust bowl which made it harder to find jobs.

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History of the US Department of Labor, Part 2: 1930s the Great Depression

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"I am a boy of 12 years...My father hasn't worked for 5 months. He went plenty times to relief, he filled out application. They won't give us anything."

- letter to President and Mrs. Roosevelt, 1936, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

Not only regular citizens were being bankrupt but also businesses. This led to many businesses not having enough money to keep a lot of the employees. This was the cause of the 25% unemployment rate.

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At the end we see the banker mad because the Banks family changed the time on Big Ben to save there house.

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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."

- Asa Philip Randolph

The government was taking the properties of the citizens so they can pay off debts. A good solution that the government could've done was to allow people to keep their money and homes and just forget about the stocks so the citizens can survive. This did not happen because the government was too greedy to allow the citizens to keep their money from debts.

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Click Here To Watch Mary Poppins Returns
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