Page 11-13: Stocks were rising, people brought stocks on margin. Millions of people lost life savings while investing in the stock market. Shops and factories ran out of business. Unemployment rates increased from 4,250,000 to 8,020,000 in one year. Stocks in the market decreased while unemployment rates increased. People who didn't have jobs in 1932 were discriminated. Herbert Hoover was the president during the Stock Market Crash. He refused giving handouts or taking part of anything that dealt with the unemployment relief.
In some areas, starvation and unemployment kept increasing. A group of farmers seized food from the Red Cross to feed their families. Due to starvation, many groups looted stores and stole food. The cities were not prepared for this situation.
Nishi, Dennis. Life during the Great Depression. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998. Print.