Great Depression

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2. Life Savings Lost

TOO MUCH STUFF!

BLACK TUESDAY

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OBJ #2 -Describe how the Great Depression affected people. Who was the president when it started, and what did he do to help? Who tried to help the poor and what problems did they have? How did people try to escape the Great Depression?

II. OBJ. #2 – Affects of the Depression

A. Jobless / Homeless

1. 1930-1932 – Jobless goes from 4 to 12 million

2. Houses are lost, people become homeless

3. People are Desperate!!!!

B. Hatred for President Hoover

1. Say’s it is NOT Government’s job to fix the Poor

a. Say Churches and other groups should help

b. PROBLEM: People too poor to help churches so churches can’t help as much!!!

2. People name Poor Places after Hoover

a.*Hooverville- Shanty towns / Hoovermobile- cars pulled by mules

b. HOBOS- look for jobs*Hooverblankets- newspapers used as traveling the rails blankets by homeless

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OBJ #2- Affects of the Great Depression

3. Bonus Army

a. WWI veterans who were promised a $ bonus in 1945,

* Veterans want it NOW (1932)

b. Veterans go to Washington and “camp out”

c. Hoover sends in Army (Eisenhower, MacArthur), used tear gas, machine guns, and burned the camp down

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OBJ #2- Affects of the Great Depression

C. Escaping the Depression

1. Radio- Comedies, Soap Operas

2. Movies- Shirley Temple, Child Actors

a. Snow White (first full-length animation)

b. Wizard of OZ

*Small girl escaping the Dust Bowl

3. Literature

a. Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

*About a family of ‘Okies’ escaping the Dust Bowl and how horribly they were treated

Wizard

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OZ

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OBJ #3 - Describe the natural disaster that affected the U.S. during the Great Depression. What was the disaster’s nick-name? What caused the disaster? Where did the people go to try and escape their troubles and how were they treated (nick-names for these people)?

III. OBJ. #3- Natural Disaster “The DUST BOWL”

A. Great Plains suffers a huge Drought (1931)

1. Causes:

a. Drought . . .no rain

b. New technology, tractors and steel plows tear-up extra sod that was holding onto soil, drought turns open soil into sand box

2. Huge Dust storms cover ‘Great Plains

B. Results

1. Can’t pay banks- Banks take Farms

2. Many Great Plains farmers move to California,