The Depression was blamed for destroying the American families, but in many cases the Depression actually caused families to pull together. In 1936 and 1937 the hardships of depression were compounded by a natural disaster in the arid regions of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas, due to topsoil erosion and Dust Storms as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath. The Great Depression was widespread throughout the entire country. American factories remained producing goods, but they stood silent …showed first 75 words of 1418 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1418 total…was at it's worst in history, and it took a visionary like Franklin Roosevelt to move us into a positive direction. Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Extending credit, building roads, federal jobs, social security, insuring banks, and insuring loans was now a Federal responsibility. The new look of the central government extended its huge hand into all economic matters, gave financial institutions new hope, and gave appropriations to the common citizen through Social Security.