The Great Depression Life During the Depression and
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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 – 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
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
Hooverville in Seattle
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
Americans making a back run to withdraw their savings
Man in Manhattan lying down on a pier
“Migrant Mother” – mother of seven children struggling through the Great Depression in California
Men line up for free bread from the Grocers’ Association.
A man trying to sell his car after losing his money in the Stock Market
An unemployed man tries to sell apples on the street to earn money
Why are there so many apples that have been eaten on the ground? What does the cartoon show about life during the Great Depression?
Explain why this locality’s chamber of commerce posted this bill
Explain the juxtaposition between the advertisement and the food line
Men in Chicago advertising themselves for a job. How do they market themselves?
Unemployment march in New Jersey
Children picketing a construction company
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)
- Cpi during the great depression
- Birth rate during the great depression
- Great depression
- Hoovervilles
- Wall street crash of 1929
- Chapter 8 employment labor and wages
- How did the great depression affect daily life
- Herbert hoover and franklin roosevelt compare and contrast
- The great depression lesson 2 hardship and suffering
- Guided reading hardship and suffering during the depression
- Hardship and suffering during the depression
- Great depression and new deal vocabulary
- Pros and cons of the great depression
- Us history eoc review the great depression and the new deal
- Chapter 33 the great depression and the new deal
- What neurotransmitter is scarce during depression
- Rarig great depression
- Great depression
- Sec the great depression
- Foreclosure great depression
- Five effects of the great depression
- Five effects of the great depression
- How did the great depression impact the world
- Dawes plan