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America Suffers Hardship, During the Depression

America Suffers Hardship, During the Depression. Shanty Towns, soup kitchen, and breadlines, represented life in the city Shanty Towns would gain a knick name. The depression devastates people’s lives. 1929-1932: 400,000 farms were foreclosed on. Many farmers turned to tenant farming

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America Suffers Hardship, During the Depression

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  1. America Suffers Hardship, During the Depression

  2. Shanty Towns, soup kitchen, and breadlines, represented life in the city • Shanty Towns would gain a knick name The depression devastates people’s lives.

  3. 1929-1932: 400,000 farms were foreclosed on. • Many farmers turned to tenant farming • What is tenant farming?” Rural areas were devastated too.

  4. An environmental issue caused by “over farming” • Made farming almost impossible • Video The Dust Bowl

  5. Many feared that the hard times-caused by the depression-would harm their family values • Men had a difficult time, because society dictated that they should provide for their families • This is where the term “hobo” comes from Family in the Depression

  6. How did families cope? • The federal government did not have a system of “Direct Relief” or welfare. • New York did have a welfare system, each family could receive $2.39 a week Families Cont.

  7. How much is $2.39 worth, in today’s money? • CPI Calculator Families Cont.

  8. Women played a vital role during the depression • They: Canned food, sewed clothes, and anything else to save a penny Families Cont.

  9. Children Suffered • In the 1930’s, cities had to cut hospital and school funding. Children had several health problems like Rickets. • By 1933, 2600 schools closed down, leaving 300000 children with no education. • Kids began to hope trains t try to find work, and adventure. This life style would kill or injure 27000 kids, by 1939 Families Cont.

  10. Suicide rate rose to 30 percent during the Depression • Many who lived during the depression began to save money, and became very thrifty Societal and Psychological effects

  11. After the Stock Market Crash on 1929, Hoover said, “Any lack of confidence in the the economic future…is foolish” Section 3 Hoover Struggles though th Depression

  12. Hoover’s Philosophy • Volunteerism • Opposed any form of welfare • Wanted to let things just happen The Economy Continued to shrink…. Hoover

  13. 48 million dollar public works project • Provided water to the southwest. • Without Hoover Damn, Southern California would not have “boomed” Boulder Dam

  14. Boulder Dam

  15. People begin calling the shanty towns, “Hoovervilles” • Hooverville Pics • Democrats take most congressional elections, in 1930 People getting fed up

  16. Public works projects • Mortgage help • Help for banks Hoover tries to help

  17. Led by Lee Waters • Bonus were due in 1945 • 500 per soldier, or 6000 in todays value Bonus Army

  18. Hoover sent General Douglas Macarthur with 1000 soldiers to stop the protest • The infantry gassed more than 1000 people. • 2 were shot • An 11 month baby dies, and an 8 year old boy went blind. Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

  19. You are to create your own political cartoon. • Your cartoon should have a message • It should either say why Hoover was a good president, or why he was a poor president. Assignment

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