effects of the great depression. 24% unemployment rate cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80%...
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Effects of the Great Depression
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• 24% unemployment rate
• Cities were harder hit—some cities 50-80% unemployment
• Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts of cities
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• Soup Kitchens & Breadlines—provided some food
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• Men demoralized—could not support their families
• 30% increase in suicide rate• Children sent from home• Men abandoned families• Malnutrition increases• Schools closed or school year
shortened
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• Rural Areas—one advantage—could grow food or hunt.
• Used to poverty
• Dust Bowl—1933-1936—environmental disaster on Great Plains
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• Poor farming practices---overusing soil, plow deeper
• Drought
• Huge windstorms carried the topsoil– hundreds of miles
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• Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas hardest hit
• Thousands left & headed for California
• Called Okies
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