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SS5H5 The student will explain how the Great
Depression and New Deal affected the lives of
millions of Americans.a.  Discuss the Stock
Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin
Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens.b. 
Analyze the main features of the New Deal
include the significance of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, the Works Progress
Administration, and the Tennessee Valley
Authority.c.  Discuss important cultural
elements of the 1930s include Duke Ellington,
Margaret Mitchell, and Jesse Owens.
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The Great Depression
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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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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

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President Hoover

• 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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What about the people?

• 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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Hooverville
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Out of the Dust
The South and the Dust Bowl
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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
  population 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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Roosevelts New Deal Programs

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Social Security

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Goal was to create jobs and conserve, or protect,
  the natural environment
• CCC workers planted trees, cleared hiking trails,
  and completed other conservation projects

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• People working for the TVA build dams on the
  Tennessee River.
• The dams created hydroelectricity for rural area
  in the Southeast.

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• People were hired to build streets, parks,
  libraries, and schools.
• It paid artists to paint murals on public
  buildings and hired authors to write books about
  places in the United States.

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Social Security

• Provided money to people over the age of 65.
• It also helps those who have disabilities and
  cannot work.

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