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Bell Work. Use your book; what was the PWA? what was the goal of the PWA? Complete sentences Page 341 2,3,5,7 Complete sentences . Chapter 11 Section 3 . Life During the Great Depression. Rebuilding America. Mount Rushmore
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Bell Work • Use your book; what was the PWA? what was the goal of the PWA? Complete sentences • Page 341 • 2,3,5,7 • Complete sentences
Chapter 11 Section 3 Life During the Great Depression
Rebuilding America • Mount Rushmore • Faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt (Teddy) • Empire State Building • Al Smith’s brain child • Built in ‘31 tallest building in the world until 1972 • Golden Great Bridge • Regulations
Women to the Workforce • Families surviving off women's income • Cheap labor • Francs Perkins • First women to serve in presidential cabinet • Sewing, baking, canning of own vegetables
Dust Bowl • Great Plains Area, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado • Cleared land for wheat farming • Drought hits in 1931, winds blow soil • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2CiDaUYr90
African-Americans and the Depression • 50% unemployment in the south • Lost farmers due to pricing, • Lost jobs due to low unemployment • Migrate to North • Little to no improvement on lifestyle • Unemployment is just under 50% • NAACP helps pass law to end discrimination in labor unions • 500,000 African Americans join • FDR’s Black Cabinet • African American work closely with the president • Ralph Bunche • Mary Bethune • Later starts Bethune-Cookman College Negatives Positives
Fascism • Government by dictatorship • Individuals are second to the nation • Blames Jews, Communist and liberals for problems of ones country • Popular in Italy and Germany
Bell Work • Define • Pension • Social Security Act • Welfare • FLSA