The passage mentions the suffering and hardships faced by people during the Great Depression, including bank failures, Dust Bowl, and poverty.
The depression wasn't limited to the US, affecting countries worldwide and contributing to international tensions. The excerpts briefly mention Hitler's rise to power, potentially linked to the economic slowdown.
While the excerpts don't explicitly address housing issues, they paint a picture of widespread suffering and economic instability. This context might suggest that many citizens would have disapproved of the government's inaction in helping those who lost their homes during the crisis.
More than a third of the nation’s banks failed in the three years following 1929. Long lines of desperate and despairing people outside banks hoping to retrieve their savings were common. Many ordinary citizens lost their life savings when banks failed.
Farmers were hit particularly hard by the crisis. On top of falling prices for crops, a devastating drought in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas brought on a series of dust storms known as the Dust Bowl. In the South, sharecroppers—both white and black—endured crushing poverty and almost unimaginable degradation. African Americans suffered significantly higher levels of unemployment than whites due to pervasive racism.
The financial crisis was not limited to the United States. Countries in Europe and around the world experienced the depression. Hitler’s rise to power in Germany was fueled in part by the economic slowdown, and throughout the 1930s international tensions increased as the global economy declined.
Which selection from the article suggests that many citizens believed the government was wrong not to help those who had lost their homes