Great Depression; The stormy weather

      Today, in class we watched a video named "1929-1936: Stormy Weather". The video was about what was happening during the depression. America lost a lot of its money. There was an army named bonus army and they were a group of people who were promised extra money but when they wanted their money, America wasn't able to pay them because they were running out of money. The depression wasn't only in America but it was all around the world. Depression didn't just hit people with money, it hit everyone even ordinary people. In the video the person who was talking said "more people with less money". That was true because people had to sell everything they had to pay bills and get money for food. There was refugees where they gave them food like soup. Thousands of people went and they got soup and others had too much pride that they didn't get free soup. With the bank failing, 9 million peoples saving were gone. The bank crushed hundred thousands of peoples lives and people had to sell items they had. People started to blame themselves for the depression because as a person they thought that they failed to America and that was what started the depression. Some people were really scared to end up in the streets and so they started to move to California for more opportunities. Even though America was in depression, they still did things to be entertained and forget the depression that they were experiencing, they made theater where you only paid 15 cents to watch movies for 6-7 hours. They also did jazz dance and swing dance competitions to see who could last the longest dancing and at the end they would win a prize. Also they listened to people on the radio tell funny stories. As time passed, there was a person running for president, Roosevelt was the one that was running for president. He promised people that everything would get better if they made him president. He said that he would get jobs for people, rescue banks, and help farmers. He called this the 3 R's: rescue, reform, and recovery. In the second part of class we went online and saw acts and laws that were passed during the time that Roosevelt was president with the 3 R's.