the great depression: life during the depression and the government’s response
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The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response. US History: Spiconardi. Hard Times for Americans. Hardships Americans Faced Unemployment Unemployment rate sky rockets from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933. Hard Times for Americans. Family Life - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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