“ . . . The major phenomena of the depression were mostly negative and did not assail the eye.
“But if you knew where to look, some of them would begin to appear. First, the breadlines in the poorer districts. Second, those bleak settlements ironically known as in the outskirts of the cities and on vacant lots—groups of makeshift shacks constructed out of packing boxes, scrap iron, anything that could be picked up free in a diligent combing of the city dumps: shacks in which men and sometimes whole families of evicted people were sleeping on automobile seats carried from auto-graveyards, warming themselves before fires of rubbish in grease drums. Third, the homeless people sleeping in doorways or on park benches, . . .”
–Frederick Lewis Allen, Since Yesterday
Read the quote and then answer the question below.
Which word correctly fills in the blank for this passage describing the Great Depression?
a.
hangouts
c.
Hoovervilles
b.
settlement houses
d.
homeless shelters
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