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Art of the Great Depression  On October 29th, 1929, Wall Street traded some 16 million shares in one day, causing a catastrophic event that sent the industrialized world into economic chaos. Meanwhile, people had been migrating west, establishing farms in the grasslands, and naively churning up the land with shallow root systems in areas where rainfall was scarce. Shortly after the stock market crash, dust storms began to arise in the Midwest, resulting in further loss of homes and livelihoods. These hardships impacted millions of people, giving rise to the Great Depression. President Hoover, who was in office at the time, struggled to respond effectively to the crisis. However, when Franklin D. Roosevelt won the next election by a landslide, he began implementing the New Deal —a series of policies to combat economic devastation and rebuild America by creating jobs for its citizens.  One significant component of the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which focused on