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What caused the depression?

What caused the depression?. What caused the Great Depression?. The Ripple Effect: People lost all of their money (crash, jobs lost, bank closures) Businesses went under (crash, bank closures, no spending) Banks failed (runs, crash) No one spent any money (fear, no money)

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What caused the depression?

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  1. What caused the depression?

  2. What caused the Great Depression? The Ripple Effect: • People lost all of their money (crash, jobs lost, bank closures) • Businesses went under (crash, bank closures, no spending) • Banks failed (runs, crash) • No one spent any money (fear, no money) • There was little foreign trade (world wide, tariff wars, end of Dawes Plan)

  3. “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” 1. mood of the song…? 2. types of occupations/jobs mentioned … ? 3. Who are “they” as referenced in the line….”They used to tell me I was building a dream”? 4. What is the song, asking of its listeners? 5. Do you think people of the 1930s could relate to the message of this song? Why based on the images?

  4. Unemployment • Less than 10 months after the Great Crash, 6,000 New Yorkers wait in line for jobs at the state employment agency, 135 found them. • By 1932, 30 percent of the labor force was looking for work.

  5. Helping the Poor • bread lines: place where people could line up to get a free handout of food • soup kitchens: areas where private charities set up to give poor people a meal • New diet: powdered milkbeans & potatoes

  6. Lots of people lost their homes Shantytowns: • communities made up of shacks put up by newly homeless people on unused or pubic land • Called Hoovervilles

  7. Impacts • Travis (12 yrs) who found his father behind their Massachusetts house, crying and heartbroken. “My dad was the strongest man I knew, but the Depression brought him to his knees.”

  8. How will the Depression changed and/or impact America? • Women – take on more burden • Criticized for “taking men’s jobs” • Men – psychological impact of not being able to provide • Children – experience “adult” issues • Increased anger towards immigrants & minorities • Generation about saving & not wasting

  9. Hobos • Homeless and unemployed people who wandered the country, walking, hitchhiking, or “riding the rails”. • They would sneak past railroad police to slip into open boxcars on freight trains. Camped in hobo jungles near rail yards. • Mostly boys and young men. Hundreds of thousands of people went from place to place in this fashion.

  10. Hobos developed a system of symbols, or a code. Hobos would write this code with chalk or coal to provide directions, information, and warnings to other hobos..

  11. Riding the Rails • "We thought it was the magic carpet...the click of the rails... romance." • "The end of the rainbow was always somewhere else and it kept us moving." • "Most of all I remember the loneliness. More than once I cried. I felt so sad,  so utterly alone."

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