The Great Depression

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The Great Depression

• The Great Life to the Great Depression
• By Kristina Fitch

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• The Roaring Twenties. If life could stay That
  great

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BLACK TUESDAY

• Wall Street on October 29th, 1929. AKA Black
  Tuesday.

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• Hundreds of thousands of the unemployed roamed
  the country on foot and in boxcars in futile
  search of jobs. Although few starved, hunger and
  malnutrition affected many.

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• An unemployed man standing outside.

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The Bread line

• People waiting for food.

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The Bread lines Grew

• The bread lines in  New York City.

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What were families to do?

• Families had to leave their homes and carry only
  what they could. The poor were hit the hardest.

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• Some families were left with nothing, only the
  clothes on their backs.

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The Dust Bowl

• The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a
  decade. Its primary area of impact was on the
  southern Plains. This did not help the
  unemployment rate.

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The dust didnt stop

• The Dust bowl hurt many farmers crops. The crops
  that helped their own families survive.

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The New Deal
                                "C.C.C. A Young
Man's Opportunity

• USA Work Program WPABy an unknown artist, 1936.
• The New Deal came in to action.

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The New Deal in ACTION

• Could a Great Depression Happen again.

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Images Reference List

• Slide 1 Migrant Mother. Retrieved June 29,
  2004 from home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/
  Depression_2001_1.html.
• Slide 2 The City in the 20s. Retrieved June
  29, 2004 from www.mainstreetmonroe.com/
  karvelas/portrait.htm
• Slide 3 Black Tuesday, (1929) retrieved June
  29, 2004 from www.depression2.tv/
  chronicles/blacktuesday.html.
• Slide 4 Dwellers in Circleville's "Hooverville,"
  central Ohio (1938). Reproduction Number
  LC-USF33-006580-M4 Retrieved June 29, 2004 from
  http//lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall
  _at_filreq(_at_field(NUMBER_at_band(fsa8a18471))_at_field(
  COLLIDfsa))displayType1m856sdfsam856sf.
• Slide 5 Unemployed man standing outside.
  Retrieved June 29, 2004 from www.mohonasen.org/...
  / P_Rushby/FDR/fdrterms.htm
• Slide 6 Breadline. Retrieved June 29, 2004
  from www.mohonasen.org/.../ P_Rushby/FDR/fdrterms.
  htm
• Slide 7 The breadlines grew. Retrieved June
  29, 2004 from www.mohonasen.org/.../
  P_Rushby/FDR/fdrterms.htm
• Slide 8 Families on the move. Retrieved June
  29, 2004 from www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/
  great-depression.htm.
• Slide 9 Migrant Family. Retrieved June 29,
  2004 from www.iaction.com/.../ toppicture.htm.
• Slide 10 The Dust Bowl. Retrieved June 29,
  2004 from http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depress
  ion/dustbowl.htm.
• Slide 11 The Dust Bowl. Retrieved June 29,
  2004 from http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depress
  ion/dustbowl.htm.
• Slide 12 WPA and CCC. Retrieved June 29, 2004
  from www.fresno.k12.ca.us/.../ greatdepression.htm
  .
• Slide 13 New Deal. Retrieved June 29, 2004
  from http//www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depressio
  n/successes.html.