User:ZMB9/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Great Depression in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This article explains the causes of the Great Depression and the effect it had on the United States of America politically, economically, and socially. It is important to understand what life was like during such a troubling time in this country as well as learn what caused this to occur. My first impression of this article is that it had a lot of good information if you are interesting in learn about the Great Depression from an economic perspective, however, it was lacking in information about the social effect of the Depression.

Evaluate the article
This article has good information on the economic downfall of the United States during this time and studies the "business side" of the Great Depression. It also does a good job explaining the political responses to this crisis in both the Hoover and Roosevelt Administrations. However, the article does not go into depth about the social response to the Great Depression. There is a brief mention of it in one of the sections, however it is lumped in with the political responses and actions of the time. I think more information on the social impact the Depression had on the United States and its culture would be very helpful and informative. I also think a section on homelessness during this era would be good. The brief section on social impact mentions "Hoovervilles", or communities of homeless people living together in "shanty town" that had their own set of rules and codes. I think more information on these communities, as well as other ways homeless people survived during this time, would be interesting.