The Great Depression.

This report is an in depth one discussing the cause and effects of the Great Depression and what inevitably pulled the American People out of it. Imagine for a moment, waking up one day to find yourself on a dirty floor, a pile of rags, or maybe even the street. You look down at yourself to find you're wearing the same clothes you wore yesterday, except they are completely filthy and have lots of holes …

…clothing. Even the sick wanderers had trouble getting help because hospitals aided local residents first. Many people who lost their home remained in the community. Some crowded into the home of a relative. Others moved to a shabby section of town and built shacks from flattened tin cans and old crates. Groups of these shacks were called Hoovervilles, a name that reflected the people's anger and disappointment at President Hoover's failure to end the depression.