The Great Depression

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The Great Depression
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Causes of the Depression

• Problems Plague the Agricultural Sector
• High debts and low revenue problems for
  farmers.
• Wealth was Distributed Unevenly
• Easy Credit Hides Problems

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Buying on Credit
Polaroid trying to sell cameras on installment
plans
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The Stock Market Crashes

• Too much money was being poured into stock
  speculation.
• Black Thursday occurred on Oct. 24, 1929. Many
  stocks lost ½ their value in one day.
• On Tues. Oct. 29 the bottom fell out in what is
  known as Black Tuesday.
• The market lost 14 billion in value that day,
  bringing the loss for the week to 30 billion,
  ten times more than the annual budget of the
  federal government, far more than the U.S. had
  spent in all of World War I.

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Black Tuesday
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Hoovers Policies

• Hoover at first did not get involved in the
  depression. He sought for companies and
  individuals to make wise decisions.
• Responding to a Worldwide Depression
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Rasied taxes on imports to
  49.

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Hoovers Policies

• Domestic Programs Too Little, Too Late.
• Federal Farm Board
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
• Emergency loans to prop up faltering companies in
  the railroad, banking, and financial industries.
• Despair and Protest
• Bonus March, PR problem for Hoover

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Bonus March
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Life During the Great Depression

• Women
• Faced hostility in the work place and hardships
  at home.
• People waited in long lines for unemployment help
• Also waited in bread and soup lines for hours

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Thousands wanting the same job
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Waiting in line for a free meal
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Men sleeping in public housing
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• Dustbowl Farmers
• Severe drought in the 1930s
• Over farming of the land
• Severe dust storms
• Almost million people leave area
• Okies, migration to farms
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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Dust Bowl
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The Storms

• In 1934 to 1936, three record drought years were
  marked for the nation. In 1936, a more severe
  storm spread out of the plains and across most of
  the nation. The drought years were accompanied
  with record breaking heavy rains, blizzards,
  tornadoes and floods.

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Car in Texas
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Videos
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HOOVERVILLES
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The Election of 1932

• Republican Hoover was nominated again.
• Democratic NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
  New Deal, repeal of prohibition, aid for the
  unemployed, and cuts in government spending.
• Results Roosevelt wins handily. 60 of the vote,
  carries all but four states.
• Hoover as a lame duck.

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The New Deal

• FDR, The Man Cousin of Teddy, NY legislator,
  U.S. assistant secretary of the navy.
• Disability polio in 1921
• Eleanor Roosevelt, active First Lady, and
  influenced FDR
• Philosophy
• The Three Rs Relief, Recovery, Reform

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Life During the Great Depression

• African Americans
• Hard times increased racial tensions.
• Job relief, WPA CCC
• Fair Employment Practices Committee
• Native Americans
• Repeal of Dawes Act
• Mexican Americans
• discrimination

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Hoovervilles were homes/areas where poor people
lived during The Great Depression
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Children living in Hooverville
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Making baskets was one way to make money during
The Great Depression.

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Washing Clothes during The Great Depression
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Cooking Dinner
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Christmas Dinner during The Great Depression
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A man and his mule
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Family walking 30 miles to visit other family
members
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Homeless family walking down a road during The
Great Depression
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Sharecropper wife children during The Great
Depression
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Loss of farms during The Great Depression
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Auctioning off a farm during The Great
Depression
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An Alabama School during The Great Depression
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Making baskets was one way to make money during
The Great Depression.

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Washing Clothes during The Great Depression
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Cooking Dinner
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Christmas Dinner during The Great Depression
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A man and his mule
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Family walking 30 miles to visit other family
members
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Homeless family walking down a road during The
Great Depression
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Sharecropper wife children during The Great
Depression
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Loss of farms during The Great Depression
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Auctioning off a farm during The Great
Depression
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An Alabama School during The Great Depression
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Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm
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Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm
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Another Dust Storm
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Oregon or Bust
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Leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm era
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Husband Wife leaving Oklahoma during The Dust
Storm period
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Heading for California away from the Dust Storms