One morning in October, the United States woke up and realized that the stock market had crashed. Everyone was shocked and confused. People lost most if not all of their possessions. The Great Depression occurred in the 1930s and pushed people to do, think, and feel in many ways they never had. They had to keep what they had and most of the time it was nothing. They felt sad, scared and confused in a different way. It was not just the people, but also the government, the police, the authorities and even other countries bordering the United States. According to Maury Klein in Rainbow's End he says: “Black Thursday, 1929. The market opened, said one broker, 'Like a bolt out of hell.' The feared sales tsunami crashed immediately. Never before had so many orders arrived so quickly from so many places; In the first half hour alone, 1.6 million shares changed hands and the pace never slowed. As soon as the phone was hung up, it rang again. The rich have become poor. The poor have become poorer. People with money were afraid to share it thinking they might lose it all. No one trusted anyone except themselves and their family. Money is the key to survival in this world. But in that period the people were poor. They had no money, so how did they survive? When the market crashed, people lost money. 12,894,650 shares were lost. 140 billion dollars have been lost. That's a lot of money. This is enough to buy 28 billion homes at the time of the crash. People were desperate because they were losing all their belongings. They couldn't pay the mortgage on their house, so they had to leave and go live in places called Hoovervilles. Hooverville is a place where people who didn't have a home can go and build cheap log homes... half paper... with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room, they would cost at least $675,000 Now. In the 1920s it would cost a person $6,000,000. This is a big difference. But people didn't have jobs to get the money. They need to ask for help but no one did. So they had to start preserving their needs and stop buying unnecessary toys, cars, dolls and expensive clothes. In conclusion, the Great Depression was a harsh, disappointing event that will never be forgotten. This event was a difficult time to live in. Some survived and continued to live to tell their stories. Some died to free themselves from all the problems they were facing. And finally, some were murdered by the heartless gangs that formed to kill, scare, and abuse their surroundings. Some were sad, angry, and furious, but most of all, they were all depressed during the Great Depression..