This is a famous picture from The Great Depression. It's often called 'The Face of The Dust Bowl'.
The Great Depression was because of many causes. The Stock Market Crash and the effects of the Dust Bowl are a few. However, the main reason is the Stock Market Crash.
The Dust Bowl happened during the Great Depression. It was a period of time where the midwest was very dry and dusty. This lasted for about ten years. It happened because there was a drought, but not only natural causes. It was also that farmers were doing excessive farming, which means they were constantly digging and churning up soil with plows and not giving the crops enough time to root and grow. Because of that it caused the soil to turn to dust.
Soup kitchens were made for the people who could no longer afford food for themselves. After the Stock Market crashed, most of the banks closed, and many people lost their money that they were holding in the banks. With no money, they became homeless, broke, and without food.
I think it was horrible that the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl happened, because a lot of people couldn't even go outside! And many people lost a lot of important things in their life. They lost things such as money, shelter, food, and sometimes family or even their own life.
Here is a slideshow of what life looked like in The Great Depression.
The Great Depression
Here are some more pictures of the Great Depression. They show the homeless lining up outside a soup kitchen, a homeless man eating the watery soup, and a town made of clumsily built shelters for the homeless, or "Hoovervilles". These images are examples of how depserate times were during the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president. He was also president during the Great Depression.
Fun fact: Soup kitchens are called soup kitchens because they served mostly soup. Why? Because if they had more people to feed, with soup, they could just add water to the soup and have a greater amount to feed more people with.
The dust storms happened in Oklahoma,
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
Herbert Hoover gave money and food to people who needed it.
Herbert Hoover was the presdient during the Stock Market crash. The banks were closed there and there was no money in the banks. It became a problem during the stock market crash.
In 1964 Herbert Hoover died on october 20 in New York