Welcome to the Depression. Your hungry, dirty, cold and unemployed. You need to point the finger and you point it at Hoover. The 1920's was a time of great prosperity in the lives of most Americans and our natural human stupidity made us think it would stay that way forever. We had just come out of the WWI and business was booming, along with farming and the stock market. The future looked good, but people …showed first 75 words of 618 total…

…showed last 75 words of 618 total…the Depression. I will say this, FDR was the best thing that could have happened in this time. Being a YR I feel that desperate times call for desperate measures. America is the best country in the world. This is shown by us coming out of WWI (winning) and into a great depression. We conquered the depression and became a stable union. We learned from our mistakes and hopefully we won't have this happen again.