Grant Wood was born on February 13,1891. His Quaker parents raised him on a small farm near Anamosa, Iowa. They lived there for several years. Grant liked art even when he lived on the farm at Anamosa, but everyone thought that he would grow up to be a farmer. When Grant was ten years old, his father died. Grant's mother knew she could not care for the farm by herself. As a result, Grant's mother moved him, his two brothers, and his sister to Cedar Rapids. Grant lived most of his teenage years in this city. While he was there, Grant worked odd jobs af

At the end of World War I, the economy of the United States began to rise. After the war, there was a growth of industry which was unmatched by any time in the past. The rise also caused the standard of living to rise, which provided many new luxuries for people's lives. Sometimes change is good; but in this case, the consequences of the change were devastating. The consequence in this case was the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. In the early 1920's, Warren G. Harding was the president. He believed in policies that reduced taxes and regulation, allowed monopolies to form, and allowed the inequality of wealth and income to reach record levels. Harding died in 1923 and Calvin Coolidge took over his presidency. He continued to work on Harding's policies. The five-year rise in economy began when Coolidge was in office. He also was able to lower the tax rate to twenty-five percent and the Supreme Court made a ruling, which further limited government control over monopolies. In 1928 Herbert Hoover became the president. During the first seven months of his presidency, almost all of the Americans were living below the poverty line. The actual crash began on October 24, 1929; the worst day of the crash was on October 29, 1929. This day is now called "Black Tuesday". The total losses of the month of October came to about sixteen billion dollars. After the Market Crash in October, Congress passed the Agricultural Market Act to help support farmers until they got back on their feet. Roosevelt entered office in 1933. The first several bank panics happened during this time. The public started to worry about their money, which caused many of the banks to fail. These failures and deposit losses caused the national money supply to shrink. By 1932, the worst year of the Depression, the economy was in very bad shape and the unemployment rate had reached twenty-thee and six-tenths percent that year. Roosevelt was committed to defeating the Depression and helping America recover from the economic disaster it was facing. Roosevelt promised a New Deal for the people and he kept his promise by passing the New Deal. By 1934 the United States had recovered from the Depression.

In conclusion, the Great Depression brought some very hard times. People chose to deal with the problems in different ways. The WPA addressed the art problem and he

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