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1929-1939
  • Stock market crash
  • Didnt realize the effect it would have
  • No money to replenish what was borrowed

Many found being broke humiliating.
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The Roaring 20s
  • The new concept of credit
  • People were buying
  • Automobiles
  • Appliances
  • Clothes
  • Fun times reigned
  • Dancing
  • Flappers
  • Drinking

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Why was this bad?
  • Credit system
  • People didnt really have the money they were
    spending
  • WWI
  • The U.S. was a major credit loaner to other
    nations in need
  • Many of these nations could not pay us back

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The Stock Market
  • People bought stocks on margins
  • If a stock is 100 you can pay 10 now and the
    rest later when the stock rose
  • Stocks fall
  • Now the person has less than 100 and no money to
    pay back

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And then.
  • With people panicking about their money investors
    tried to sell their stocks
  • This leads to a huge decline in stocks
  • Stocks were worthless now
  • People who bought on margins now could not pay
  • Investors were average people that were now broke

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  • Herbert Hoover was president at the start
  • Philosophy Well make it!
  • What He Did Nothing
  • The poor were looking for help and no ideas on
    how to correct or help were coming

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  • Farmers were already feeling the effects
  • Prices of crops went down
  • Many farms foreclosed
  • People could not afford luxuries
  • Factories shut down
  • Businesses went out
  • Banks could not pay out money
  • People could not pay their taxes
  • Schools shut down due to lack of funds
  • Many families became homeless and had to live in
    shanties

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Many waited in unemployment lines hoping for a
job.
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People in cities would wait in line for bread to
bring to their family.
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Some families were forced to relocate because
they had no money.
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Hooverville
  • Some families were forced to live in shanty
    towns
  • A grouping of shacks and tents in vacant lots
  • They were referred to as Hooverville because of
    President Hoovers lack of help during the
    depression.

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A drought in the South lead to dust storms that
destroyed crops.
The Dust Bowl
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The South Was Buried
  • Crops turned to dustNo food to be sent out
  • Homes buried
  • Fields blown away
  • South in state of emergency
  • Dust Bowl the 1 weather crisis of the 20th
    century

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Two Families During the Depression
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A Farm Foreclosure
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Some families tried to make money by selling
useful crafts like baskets.
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FDR
  • When he was inaugurated unemployment had
    increased by 7 million.
  • Poor sections (like Harlem) had 50 of the pop.
    unemployed
  • Instated the New Deal
  • Yea! Frankie!

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  • People everywhere were effected by the
    depression
  • It wasnt till President Roosevelt took over and
    tried to put the economy back together that
    people even saw a glimmer of hope

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Major Historical Happenings...
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Scottsboro Trials
  • Recovering from the Great Depression
  • Racial Injustice
  • Poor South

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Jim Crow Laws
  • After the American Civil War most states in the
    South passed anti-African American legislation.
    These became known as Jim Crow laws.
  • These laws included segregation in
  • Schools -- Hospitals
  • Theaters -- Water fountains
  • Restaurants
  • Hotels
  • Public transportation
  • Some states forbid inter-racial marriages

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  • These laws were instituted in 1896 and were not
    abolished till the late 1950s (even then still
    not completely).

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  • 9 young African-American men (13-20) accused of
    raping 2 white girls in 1931
  • Immediately sentenced to death
  • Trials went on for nearly 15 years before all the
    men were dismissed

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  • Started on a train bound for Memphis
  • Several white men boarded and picked a fight with
    the black men
  • Whites were forced off train by the 12 black men.
    The white men reported the the black men had
    raped two white girls on the train to
    authorities
  • They were immediately arrested and tried in front
    of an all-white jury.

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The trials caused a huge uproar amongst the black
community.
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  • Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960
  • Based the story on her life growing up in
    Monroeville, Alabama
  • TKAM was the only novel she ever wrote

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  • The character of Dill, Scout and Jems playmate
    in the novel was based upon Lees actual
    neighbor, Truman Capote
  • Capote is famous for amongst other things, In
    Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffanys.
  • It has been said that he gave Lee Mockingbird as
    a gift.

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  • In 1962 the novel was turned into a film starring
    Gregory Peck.
  • It received a humanitarian award and several
    Academy Award nominations

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