Many people who were effected by the mass lay offs fell into poverty, unable to find solid paying jobs to support families. People couldn't buy food, clothes, pay rent, or afford school supplies. Often times families moved into ghettos or homeless shelters after being unable to afford their homes.
Not that much information in the question. Where is the map?
Westward. They believed in the manifest destiny which was to expand land westward. So Thomas Jefferson decided to fulfill this by purchasing Louisiana purchase<span />