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Riding the Rails

Riding the Rails. Quotes from the “lost”. Boxcar Life. The effects on a generation of kids…. Consider how the way children were raised during the Great Depression will effect how they act as adults. “Mattress money” “Clean your plate club”.

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Riding the Rails

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  1. Riding the Rails

  2. Quotes from the “lost”

  3. Boxcar Life

  4. The effects on a generation of kids… • Consider how the way children were raised during the Great Depression will effect how they act as adults. “Mattress money” “Clean your plate club” "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."--Franklin Delano Roosevelt History = Culture

  5. *Generation Chart

  6. Activity: Social History Scrapbook

  7. Families • Many families separated to find jobs throughout the country • Families unable to pay the mortgage lost their homes and farms • About 250,000 young people were homeless in the early years of the Depression. Many became nomads, traveling the highways and railways.

  8. School • Students were too embarrassed to go to school with worn out clothes • Few adults could pay taxes: teachers were given a flat rate, classroom sizes were large, schools shut down • Many students dropped out to work • Started progressive classes – students could choose their subject

  9. History = Culture List characteristics of your generation. How does the history of our time period effect the culture?

  10. The Movies – The Golden Age of Hollywood begins; 25 cents or less for a whole days entertainment Swing- Dancing their troubles away Games – Board games about the rewards of becoming rich

  11. Thank you, Ford Greenfield Village, Michigan

  12. Thank you, Rockefellar Colonial Williamsburg

  13. Martha Graham

  14. New Heroes

  15. A new phrase, "the American way of life," entered the American vernacular.

  16. Faith Returns

  17. Bonnie and Clyde

  18. MURAL ART Create a mural to represent YOUR culture and/or history that has affected you generation.

  19. Do you feel it is important to preserve history in this way?

  20. Works Progress Administration Music Art Sculptor

  21. History = CultureCompare and Contrast List characteristics of the 1930 culture and your generation. How did the history of the time period effect the culture?

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