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The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response

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

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The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response

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  1. The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response US History: Spiconardi

  2. Hard Times for Americans • Hardships Americans Faced • Unemployment • Unemployment rate sky rockets from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Hooverville in Seattle

  6. 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

  7. Americans making a back run to withdraw their savings

  8. Man in Manhattan lying down on a pier

  9. “Migrant Mother” – mother of seven children struggling through the Great Depression in California

  10. Men line up for free bread from the Grocers’ Association.

  11. A man trying to sell his car after losing his money in the Stock Market

  12. An unemployed man tries to sell apples on the street to earn money

  13. Why are there so many apples that have been eaten on the ground? What does the cartoon show about life during the Great Depression?

  14. Explain why this locality’s chamber of commerce posted this bill

  15. Explain the juxtaposition between the advertisement and the food line

  16. Men in Chicago advertising themselves for a job. How do they market themselves?

  17. Unemployment march in New Jersey

  18. Children picketing a construction company

  19. 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)

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