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The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response
US History: Spiconardi
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Hard Times for Americans
• Hardships Americans Faced– Unemployment
• Unemployment rate sky rockets from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933
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Hard Times for Americans
• Family Life– Many fathers left families to find
work elsewhere– Children couldn’t go to school
• Why? – School boards didn’t have money to
keep schools open
– Marriage rate decreases– Fewer children per family
• Why? – Parents couldn’t afford to feed large
families
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Hard Times for Americans• Shanty towns• Many Americans lost their homes so they built shanty
towns– Shanty towns slum settlements constructed by impoverished
people out of scrap materials
• The shanty towns were referred to as Hoovervilles – President Herbert Hoover was blamed for not helping suffering
Americans enough
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Hooverville in Seattle
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Hard Times for Americans
• Deterioration of Health– Many Americans suffered from malnutrition
• Undernourished people fall more easily to disease
Americans on line at soup kitchen
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Americans making a back run to withdraw their savings
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Man in Manhattan lying down on a pier
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“Migrant Mother” – mother of seven children struggling through the Great Depression in
California
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Men line up for free bread from the Grocers’ Association.
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A man trying to sell his car after losing his money in the Stock Market
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An unemployed man tries to sell apples on the street to earn money
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Why are there so many apples that have been eaten on the ground?
What does the cartoon show about life during the Great Depression?
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Explain why this locality’s chamber of commerce posted this bill
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Explain the juxtaposition between the advertisement and the food line
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Men in Chicago advertising themselves for a job. How do they market themselves?
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Unemployment march in New Jersey
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Children picketing a construction company
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Homework
• Choose one of the following three photos. Place yourself in that photograph and either write a diary entry or create a back story.– 1-page– Typed or neatly written in blue or black ink– Proper heading (no writing in the top margin)
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