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Title: Chapter 14 Section 2


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Chapter 14 Section 2
  • Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

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Employment
  • Many people found themselves out of jobs for
    years women, African American men, Mexican
    American men were discriminated against in the
    workplace and became targets of hostility

3
Housing
  • Many unemployed people lost their homes many
    homeless lived in the streets or in shanty towns
    many farmers lost their farms.

4
Farming
  • Farmland already exhausted through overproduction
    was hit with drought and winds, turning the
    plains into a dust bowl dramatic decrease in
    farm prices and income many farmers lost
    ownership of their farms and were forced to
    become tenant farmers or farm laborers.

5
Race Relations
  • Intense competition for jobs sparked existing
    racial resentments into open hostility and
    violence in 1933, 24 African Americans were
    lynched, thousands of Mexican Americans left the
    U.S. voluntarily or were deported.

6
Family Life
  • The Depression strengthened family ties, but also
    increased family tensions some men abandoned
    their families, discouraged by their inability to
    provide for them women also faced greater
    pressures to provide for themselves and their
    families.

7
Physical Health
  • Poor and homeless people scavenged or begged for
    food or turned to soup kitchens and bread lines
    poor diet and lack of health care increased rates
    of serious health problems malnutrition and
    starvation grew more common.

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Emotional Health
  • Many people became demoralized suicide and
    admissions to mental hospitals increased
    dramatically people were forced to accept
    compromises that would affect the rest of their
    lives some people came to want financial
    security more than anything else in life.
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