class structure by mackenzie, mandi, & ragen. lavish homes beautiful, clean clothes highest...

Class StructureBy MacKenzie, Mandi, & Ragen

Lavish homes

Beautiful, clean clothes

Highest paying jobs

Very uptight

Women wore dresses and no make-up

Boys and men never helped in the house

Dirty living conditions

Lowest paying jobs

Poor clothes

The Great Depression• Played a major role

– Divided social classes—those who still had money and those who became unemployed.

• Market crashed and tons of people loss money• The richest people still had money but the hardworking

poorer people didn’t, and were out of work.

Tension Between classes• Major clash of social classes

– Tension grew as the upper class became boastful with the money they still had after the crash.

– This greatly angered lower social classes.• Upper classes felt like they had to take care of lower classes and

became angry. • Eventually, people became destructive and many were killed.• Strikes were eminent

Tension Between Classes Continue…

• The situation became so bad that the classes thought warfare would be in the near future.

• Although it never happened, it kept them on guard throughout the ‘30s.

5 Informative Words

• Ostentatious—being boastful or thinking that you are better or more important than someone.

• Unionization: organized labor unions • Eminent: apparent, obvious, going to happen• Proletarians: a member of the working class.• Aristocrat: a member of the ruling class or of the

nobility.

Citations

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Fox, Levi, Gretchen Sund, and Caroline Altman. Relations of Class in the Great Depression. American Studies Program , n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/NewYorker/class.html>.

Fussell, Paul. "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System." People Like Us. PBS, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2009. <http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/resources/essays6.html>.