What was it?

          The Great Depression was a time of great struggle in the United States along with the rest of the world, The Great Depression was an economic depression that had hit the world hard. An economic depression is characterized by many economists as a type of “rare and extreme form of recession”. A recession is basically a slowdown in economic activity.

HooverVilles, towns consisting of shacks



"Migrant Mother", a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange
that featured the lifestyles of many people that migrated during
the depression.