Why was there no middle class in the Great Depression?

The Great Depression caused middle class families to lose their homes and possessions. They would have likely lost jobs that allowed them to have their homes and possessions.

We are more in a recession, not a real depression, but it will have similar characteristics due to the government because the government will take control of everything and eliminate the middle class in a Marxist fashion. Like in the Great Depression, there is only really rich, and poor.

many middle class that had money in the stock market suffered lost money became drifters others lived in hoovervilles and others had low paying jobs that just barely kept them going

The Great Depression led to widespread unemployment. Extreme poverty was inflicted on both middle class and lower class and in some cases even upper class. Suicide rates jumped high. People lost their homes and farms. Many moved to live in 'Hoovervilles'. There was social unrest within the society. The effect even reflected on other countries and trade reduced substantially. The idea of social security also became prominent after the Great depression.

Horse sperm shots were fairly common among the middle and upper class after the great depression, if horses werent avaliable they would mix their own sperm with urine and share it with the other people in their household. ;)

The entire fabric of American society was altered during the Great Depression. One percent of the American people controlled the wealth. The middle class Americans were now on a level with the previously poverty-stricken class. They lost jobs, homes, and entire ways of life.

The great amount of jobs created were the basis for our middle class to stabilize themselves and the job was completed by WWII!

In 1935 FDR signed a Presidential order legalizing collective bargaining. This was the beginning of the middle class in America.

A great example to represent the middle class in The Great Gatsby is, The Valley of Ashes.

To get the American economy out of the Great Depression. He did it by enacting many acts to help the lower to middle class and the old folks.

The unemployment rate was 25% during the Great Depression.

Yes, since both died in 1934, right in the middle of the Great Depression.

Because he taxed the middle and lower class too much and it made things worse.

They lost their jobs.

Life in the South for the upper middle class was carefree

The Great Depression took place during the 1930's and lasted until the middle of the 1940's. The Great Depression was started by the stock market crash in 1929.

The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers gained more wealth. The 1920s were a time when the middle class was growing well. That was stopped for time by the Great Depression.

they lost jobs and money

I believe it was Mahatma Ghandi who said your quotation.

The Great Depression did affect the upper class, but not nearly as hard as the working and lower class. Although many lost money in the stock market crash, most still retained their wealth and prosperity. It also caused tention between the upper and lower class. It is also known that the upper class did spend more money during the Great Dpression than they did during the 1920's.

Only a small number of people help most of the wealth, so the middle/lower class did not have as much money to spend; therefore making the economy worse.

increase in population

By most methods of calculation, the Depression ended in 1942, or earlier. By the middle of 1942, jobs were plentiful.

Poor people far outnumbered middle class in the Middle Ages. The serfs and other peasants were the great majority of the population, and the Middle Class was very small. So there were more cottages for poor people than middle class houses.

bad because it was middle of the great depression

We were in the end\middle of the great depression.

Unequal distribution of wealth. There was not a large middle class. While wages were rising for the majority of workers, they were not keeping pace with the increase in the cost of living or the wealth in the hands of the industrialists and others in the upper income classes.

during the great depression women were treated like second class citzens and inviserble they werent allowed to own anything and forced to work inside the house.

It depends on the student

1944 was the middle of World War II, and the country was booming. America's Great Depression is regarded as having begun in 1929 with the Stock Market crash, and ended in 1941 with America's entry into the war.

developing a class of free landowning middle class farmers FRESH

No. The Great Hunger is what the middle class Irish called it, and The Great Famine is what the British and everyone else called it. The Great Starvation is what the Irish low class called it.

New money came in thanks to Merchants, shippers, and factory owners which were middle class

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the middle class people brought in money because new job offerings were opened in factories and mils.

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What did the Great Depression effect? What was the effect of the Great Depression?

The middle class is a social class which falls above the working class. One of the goals of the middle class is to remain middle class.

Mainly the upper class, IF they had enough money. also, if they had a job and had plans if they were to get laid off

The great depression began around September 4, 1929 and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (Known as Black Tuesday). The economy restored in the middle of the 1930's. (source: wikipedia)

The very poor or middle class were more likely to view banks in the United States as economic monopolies controlled by aristocrats. During the Great Depression, many banks closed and were not trusted by the average citizen.

Middle class, Midwestern guy.

Some of the best selling novels about the great depression include The Great Depression, America, The Worst Hard Time, and America's Great Depression.

The great depression was a worldwide phenomenon. As in the US and elsewhere, in Germany, there was massive unemployment, with the number of unemployed reaching up to 6 million. The majority of those who were affected were the middle class. Hitler managed to gain support from them by capitalizing on their suffering: in a time of crisis, many Germans wanted someone to blame, and rather than looking at the actual reasons for what led to…

Yes he did. He attended the Public School of Plains and then went to college at Georgia Southwestern College and Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Great Depression, when the stock market crashed. It affected just about everyone. People who were lower class, lost everything. Their money, their jobs, their lives, and a lot of the time, even their families. Middle class people, lost most of their money and their homes, and were moved down to lower class. The upper class howerver, wasn't affected so much. They still had their money and homes and families, but taxes were raised, making…

Rugged individualism was arguably already in place, but the Great Depression strengthened this trait in working-class Americans. Decades later, these folks were still pinching every last penny and asking for help from no one.

Where did the great depression.... WHAT??? -The BOLD explainer ;)

how long was the Great Depression?

the Great Depression was in 1929.