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Thursday October 24 1929 is a Day that was later known as "Black Thursday". "Black Thursday" was the day a small crash occurred at the New York stock exchange. However "Black Thursday" Would turn out to be nothing compared to what awaited America and its economy on the following Tuesday. America was about to enter her darkest days the Great Depression. Sena Peterson my great grandmother was just an eighteen-year-old young lady living on her fathers corn farm in Iowa. Far away from New York and the economic problems on Wall Street. Nevertheless, the depression and the falling prices of her farms product would soon affect her in drastic ways the depression would be a hard time for Americans. Monday October 28, 1929. Was a very dark and gloomy day. Thousands of Black Birds landed on Wall Street. The thousand plus birds began to devour any thing they could find to eat. Nearly half of the birds never took flight again. Many of the birds died of exhaustion.This was an ominous sign of the dark and desperate times ahead. America was about to enter its lowest and darkest point in its short history. My great grandma lived on her farm in Iowa oblivious to the fact that her life would soon be changing in drastic ways. Sh
Buster and Glen where the names of there sons. The Public Works program provided jobs and it built schools dams and roads. The Peterson's continued to work in factories to pay for the medical bills. From 1929 to 1932, unemployment went from 3. My great grandfather now had problems paying the bill and making ends meat but he managed for a while. Things began to look a lot worse for the Peterson's my great grandmother's father came down with tuberculoses. Consequently, the farm produced an excess product so the price dropped. This dark day would soon be remembered as "Black Tuesday". The depression is thought to be over around the time the Second World War started. Yet it was still a tuff time they could pay the bills and she didn't have to do hard work in factories. There was no end in sight America looked as if it where in a never-ending downward spiral. e had know idea of what was going on at Wall Street.
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