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Industry: Agriculture How the Government Interacted During the Depression, and What Do They Do Today? While speaking with my seemingly omniscient grandmother quite recently, the Great Depression came up in conversation. I was totally captivated by her recollection of what life was like during those times. What was really stunning to me was that after she had finished telling me about how hard life was for her family, she then said she considered herself lucky for living in a steel town, rather than having to rely on farming as income, for the rural families took the brunt of the depression. She then said she was curious to just how bad things had to have been for country folks, if she had encountered that much hardship living in an inner-city atmosphere. Perhaps the most dynamic economic fiasco ever recorded, which affected life in every way in the United States, was the Great Depression. The main factor in this national depression was the stock market crash of 1929. The Great Depression most significantly impacted agricultural life throughout the nation. Lasting for over a decade, the Great Depression altered the lives of nearly everybody in the nation, causing a large number of people to sell most of their belongings,