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Cultural issues during the great depression

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Cultural issues during the great depression

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  1. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00992/wall-street-460_992016c.jpghttp://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00992/wall-street-460_992016c.jpg http://www.worldfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Depression-659x380.jpg http://jmsinclair.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/migrant_mother.jpg?w=652 Cultural issues during the great depression Charlotte shepherd, Lindsey Mangiafico, Justin Durocher, Vinh Dau

  2. Women’s Struggles • Depression had disruptive effect on American family • Men lost jobs • Women were mostly supporters of family • Many families went through break ups & desertions • Marriage and birth rates dropped • Many states refused to hire and fired women if married • New Deal helped men that needed new jobs but never considered the women

  3. African American’s Struggles • They suffered greatly when the economy got worse • The first to lose their jobs • “Last Hired, First Fired” • 50% employment rate by 1930 for Blacks • Given tough jobs no one wanted called “Negro Occupations” • A lot of racial discrimination http://www.understandingrace.org/images/482x270/gov/great_depression_ww2.jpg http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/FastFetch/UBER1/hesd_01_img0049

  4. Difference between city and country lifestyle Country City • Less than 13% of blacks owned land • Lots of racism, lynches • 2 million males in agriculture • Sharecroppers and tenant farmers • Whites sharecroppers were paid more than blacks • Education was bad • Teachers were paid little to nothing • Much more populated from the Great Migration • Less racism and lynches • more benefits • “Job for Blacks” organizations • Bread lines for starving people • Women began to look for jobs for the first time http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/great-depression-bread-lines.jpg http://wikihistoria.wikispaces.com/file/view/78359-004-3AF75A0B.jpg/42978035/78359-004-3AF75A0B.jpg

  5. Difference between the 1920’s and the 1930’s 1920’s 1930’s • Rapid economic growth • Rising prosperity • Business profits boomed • National income increased by 40% • With factory machines, goods were able to be made faster and for less money • Stocks rising •5,000,000 Americans are out of work by 1930 •By 1932, 14 million Americans are unemployed •1,300 banks fail in 1930 •1937- Unemployment rises to 20% •4,000 labor strikes occur •The Economy Act •The New Deal

  6. Difficulties during the great depression • Stock market crash of 1929 • Output of the economy • Wages dropped by 1/3 • Most of the unemployed had little to no savings • Rise of diseases • Schools closed • Undernourishment • President Hoover http://us-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/us-history-great-depression-picture.png http://media1.shmoop.com/media/images/large/great-dep-family.jpg

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