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Page 1: Class Structure By MacKenzie, Mandi, & Ragen. Lavish homes Beautiful, clean clothes Highest paying jobs

Class StructureBy MacKenzie, Mandi, & Ragen

Page 2: Class Structure By MacKenzie, Mandi, & Ragen. Lavish homes Beautiful, clean clothes Highest paying jobs

Lavish homes

Beautiful, clean clothes

Highest paying jobs

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Very uptight

Women wore dresses and no make-up

Boys and men never helped in the house

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Dirty living conditions

Lowest paying jobs

Poor clothes

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Citations

"British Class System-Middle Class in 1930's/40's." Yahoo Answers. Yahoo, 14 Oct. 2006. Web. 27 Oct. 2009. <http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060923062341AAuEhfm>.

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>.