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The Great Depression and //Poverty// //My project briefly describes the Great Depression and how it had a huge impact on the growth in poverty. It also mentions the New Deal plans that Roosevelt created to help with poverty in the United States. The Great Depression had a monumental impact on the United States and the people were effected greatly by it.//

=My Video=

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal=

In 1929, an epidemic hit America like a bullet to the chest, called the Great Depression. This depression started with the stock market crash and the closing of banks. With these horrible things happening, people became jobless and poverty reached an all high. The number of jobless people increased by the day, and at the high point of the depression the unemployment rate was 25%. Imagine one and every four people without work, that’s quite a few. Because many people were jobless they were not able to buy food for their families, so many families were starving. The Great Depression had many effects, but the largest issue was poverty.

Many people thought that the New Deal was a good thing, and that it helped people, but others did not. Some of the people of the Supreme Court thought that the New Deal was violating the laws of the Constitution. Because the Supreme Court thought some of the New Deal was unconstitutional, President Roosevelt proposed appointing six new Supreme Court justices. He thought that if he could do this that it would help make the judge’s job easier. However, the Supreme Court denied this proposal. Conservatives claimed that the New Deal went too far in regulating businesses and restricting individual freedom. Even though some people felt this way, others thought that the new deal did not go far enough, in terms of helping the poor. With the refining of the New Deal, many people began to see the effectiveness of it.

One of the ways that the New Deal was effective, was that it created the Wagner Act, which guaranteed worker’s their rights. One way that it did this was that it promised workers benefits and wages that would help them support their family. I think that this was a good thing because it showed that President Roosevelt cared about the people and he wanted to help them as much a he possibly could. The Wagner Act also showed the people that they would be able to trust in the government again and that they would be able to support their families needs.

=Reflection= When creating my video, the first thing that I did was write my narrative. Then after that I recorded my narrative using Garage Band. The music that is behind me talking was also made in Garage Band. Next, I turned my Garage Band track into an mp3. When I did that I dragged the mp3 file into iMovie. When I had done that I dropped the pictures into iMovie, making sure that they lined up with what I was saying. One of the major challenges that I faced while creating my video was having enough photos and trying to make them fit into what I was saying. About half of the time I spent on my project was used to edit my movie.