Chapter 6: Mastery Test 7
 
Read the paragraph. Answer the questions.

Hitting Bottom—The Great Depression

     1The Great Depression caused widespread hardships. 2One hardship was lack of food and public aid. 3For example, in the spring of 1932, thousands of Americans faced starvation. 4In Philadelphia, relief funds could not be accessed for 11 days. 5As a result, hundreds of families lived on stale bread, thin soup, and garbage. 6In the nation as a whole, only about one-fourth of the jobless received any public aid. 7Another problem was housing. 8In Birmingham, Alabama, landlords in poor areas gave up trying to collect rents. 9They preferred, as one Alabama congressman told a Senate committee, "to have somebody living there free of charge rather than to have the house . . . burned up for fuel [by scavengers]." 10Many people were evicted from their homes. 11They often gathered in rickety communities made of packing boxes, rusty sheet metal, and similar refuse they built on swamps, garbage dumps, and other wasteland. 12People began to call these places "Hoovervilles." 13Thousands of tramps roamed the countryside begging and hunting for food.

—Adapted from Garraty and Carnes, The American Nation: A History of the United States, 10th ed., p. 712.

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