What was life like during ?

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What was life like during ?
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1920s Culture

• The flapper
• Short hair for women
• Hats for men and women
• Dancing
• Silent movies

The Jazz Age was wickedand monstrous and
silly.Unfortunately, I had a good time.
Heywood Broun
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What was life like in the 1930s?
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What was the Great Depression?

• The worst economic crisis of the century
• Over 13 million people unemployed
• Dust bowl as a result of drought
• Farmers lost crops
• Many lost their homes

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What caused the Great Depression?

• Unequal distribution of wealth
• Stock market crash of 1929

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Unequal Distribution of Wealth

• No middle class
• Supply not equal to demand
• Credit cards created false demand

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Stock Market Crash

• Many stocks purchased
• Stock prices fell
• Huge sums of money lost

Thursday, October 24, 1929
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The Results

• Bank Failure

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• Unemployment

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• Loss of homes
• Hoovervilles

Here were all these people living in old
rusted-out car bodies. ... One family ... was
living in a piano box. This wasn't just a little
section, this was maybe 10 miles wide and 10
miles long. People living in whatever they could
junk together. ..."
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• Dustbowls

A traveler noticed a nice new hat by the side of
the road, and he stopped to pick it up. Under
the hat was a man, buried up to his neck in the
dust! As he dug the poor fellow out, the
traveler asked if he wanted a ride into town.
"No, I'll get there myself," the man replied,
"I'm on a horse." (Excerpt from THE DUST BOWL by
Tricia Andryszewski, p. 33.)
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• Depression

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Did everyone suffer during the depression?
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our greatest primary task is to put people to
work
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FDRs New Deal

• Relief for the needy
• Jobs provided
• Business and government reformed

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So What?
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A Long Way From Chicago By Richard Peck