The+Great+Depression

On October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed, bringing a decade full of depression and suffering not only for the United States but the whole world! Unemployment rose to a record 25%. People lived in shacks in shanty towns known as Hoovervilles. Big city industrial wasn't the only thing hurting. The Dust Bowl swept across the midwest all the way up to Canada. Forcing many to move west!