During the Great Depression in 1930, people all across the United States faced many hardships and life changing times. Many suffered from low incomes, poor living conditions, and stock failure. In fact, people went the entire Depression without finding a job and found it very difficult to accept financial and material help from the government. The Great Depression affected all groups, ages, and races of people. The Great Depression was a result of many fails within the country including the stock market, unemployment and homes being evicted. The first thing to cause the depression to begin was the crash in the stock market (GML 788). For years before the depression began, the stock increased and people invested a good amount of money to the stock and companies. They relied on the money from stocks and made a living off the stock market (Lecture, Great Depression). In 1930, the economy was beginning to fail and people lost many jobs. The country went into a major panic causing people to sell their stock quickly to receive the money they could. Stockholders dropped about 16 million shares, when the average was 3 million shares a day (Lecture, Great Depression). No one thought this fall in stocks was going to last, a good about of time like it did. American has developed this fear that they were going to be in trouble with money and would never recover. The fact was that 97.5 % of once stockholder did not have stocks in their name anymore (Lecture, Great Depression). Besides the fall of stocks, the second problem was people losing their money with the banks. The banks became much unorganized and not many were known to be national or to have branches off the main bank (Lecture, Great Depression). Americans had nowhere to save their money and were left with less than they started with. There were no differences existed between investment banks, serving stock trader and commercial banks, serving the public (Lecture, Great Depression). One bank was now controlling every person's money. Banks were loaning out money to stockholders. This caused bank funds to all be in the stock market. The people were relying on the banks so when the stock prices fell the bank was losing money and so was the customer that had their money in the ban