Chapter 14 Section 2 Hardship

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Chapter 14 Section 2Hardship Suffering During
the Depression
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Brainstorm

• Close your eyes
• Imagine having no place to live
• Imagine having no money to purchase food or
  clothing
• Imagine no government programs to help you

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Objectives

• Describe how people struggled to survive during
  the Depression
• Explain how the Depression affected men, women
  children

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Employment

• 1929-1932 GNP 104B to 59B
• 90,000 businesses went bankrupt
• Even auto steel out of business
• Unemployment 3 (1.6m) to 25 (13m)
• Pay cuts and reduced hours
• Unemployment rate higher for Af Am Latinos

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Housing

• People evicted from their homes and in streets
• Slept in parks, sewer pipes
• Shantytowns little towns consisting of shacks
• Soup kitchens or bread lines free or low cost
  food sponsored by charitable organizations

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Farming

• The drought hit the Great Plains in the early
  1930s then came the dust storms (7 year Dust
  Bowl) (Overproduction) (CA)
• Falling prices rising debt farmers lose their
  land
• 400k farms lost to foreclosure
• Some keep land grow own food
• Some become tenant farmers

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Race Relations

• Af Am Latinos lowest paid
• Violence coming from unemployed whites
• 24 Af Am lynched in 1933
• Whites demand Latinos be deported
• Some Latinos leave voluntarily / some deported

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Family Life

• Families kept their traditional values unity
• Played board games, listen to radio
• Hoboes (mainly men) ride train cars looking for
  work
• No direct relief cash or food from the federal
  government
• NYC gave out 2.39 per family

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Family Life

• Women canned food, sewed clothes, closely
  maintained a budget
• Women who worked paid less targeted by men
• Children School year shortened schools close
• Children work at sweatshops
• Teenagers / Hoover tourists

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Physical Health

• Children have poor diets/lack of health care
  suffer serious health problems
• Milk consumption declines, rise in malnutrition
  and rickets
• Child welfare programs slashed
• People stop going to dentists doctors

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Emotional Health

• Suicide rate increases by 30
• 3x more enroll in mental hospitals
• College, marriage, families put off
• Vowel never to be poor again
• Kindness displayed

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Vocabulary

• Shantytown
• Soup kitchen
• Bread line
• Dust Bowl
• Direct relief