1930's could prove troublesome,
             1930's were no picnic. Unemployment
             leaving 12.8 million people without jobs.
             4,004 banks were suspended in 1933 due
             to "financial difficulties." The value if
             U.S. exports was down $2.5 billion from
             1928. And to top it all off, the whole
             Great Plains was shut down due to dust
             this developing situation, but his work
             just put a dent in the already booming
             depression. The whole world, in fact,
             was in the same fix we were in. Due to
             the war and the U.S. raising the tariffs,
             other countries had few other countries
             to trade with. These countries couldn't
             condition, due to the war reparations and
             costs of casualties from both man and
             only a little better off than the rest of the
             nation, and even that didn't last long
             because hundreds of thousands of people
             who lived on the Great Plains migrated to
             the West Coast in hope for a new home,
             and a job to support their families.
             Most people who couldn't find a
             temporary camps for these people to live
             in. However, some people were forced to
             live in cities made of garbage and other
             scrap materials called "Hoovervilles,"
             where some whole families were forced
             to live in piano boxes and garbage cans.
             They often died from diseases because
             they had eaten rotten and decomposing
             garbage out of dumps. People could be
             seen chasing garbage trucks down the
             road and overtaking them to mug the
             garbage men of their trash. At times, men
             might even go as far as to kill another for
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