Chapter 14 Section 2

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Chapter 14 Section 2

• Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

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Employment

• Many people found themselves out of jobs for
  years women, African American men, Mexican
  American men were discriminated against in the
  workplace and became targets of hostility

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Housing

• Many unemployed people lost their homes many
  homeless lived in the streets or in shanty towns
  many farmers lost their farms.

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Farming

• Farmland already exhausted through overproduction
  was hit with drought and winds, turning the
  plains into a dust bowl dramatic decrease in
  farm prices and income many farmers lost
  ownership of their farms and were forced to
  become tenant farmers or farm laborers.

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Race Relations

• Intense competition for jobs sparked existing
  racial resentments into open hostility and
  violence in 1933, 24 African Americans were
  lynched, thousands of Mexican Americans left the
  U.S. voluntarily or were deported.

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Family Life

• The Depression strengthened family ties, but also
  increased family tensions some men abandoned
  their families, discouraged by their inability to
  provide for them women also faced greater
  pressures to provide for themselves and their
  families.

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Physical Health

• Poor and homeless people scavenged or begged for
  food or turned to soup kitchens and bread lines
  poor diet and lack of health care increased rates
  of serious health problems malnutrition and
  starvation grew more common.

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Emotional Health

• Many people became demoralized suicide and
  admissions to mental hospitals increased
  dramatically people were forced to accept
  compromises that would affect the rest of their
  lives some people came to want financial
  security more than anything else in life.