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The Great Depression

• Difficult Times for America

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What was the Great Depression?

• A worldwide economic crisis
• The crash of the stock market
• The failure of banks and businesses
• Americas worst period of unemployment
• A nightmare for the American Dream
• A time of poverty and despair

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Stock Market Crash

• October 24, 1929
• Black Thursday
• Panic
• Too many had gambled by borrowing to buy stock
• Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the beginning of
  the Great Depression

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Causes of the Great Depression

• Industries using machinery produced surpluses of
  goods
• Low salaries prevented many from buying goods
• Farmers had bad years and had to borrow money
  from banks
• Huge farm surpluses caused a drop in prices and
  losses to farmers
• Import tariffs discouraged trade with foreign
  countries

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The Crash Continues

• Banks failed
• Factories closed
• Stores closed
• Crop prices fell
• Jobs disappeared
• Homes were lost

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Some of the Statistics

• In 1931, 800 banks failed in 2 months
• In 1932 over 30,000 companies closed
• Black unemployment rose to 56 in 1932
• By 1933 salaries fell 40 and hourly wages fell
  60
• By 1935, 10 to 20 thousand children under the age
  of 10 worked in mills or on farms

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People in the Depression

• Evictions
• Hunger
• Malnutrition
• Disease
• Hobos
• Breadlines

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Sometimes Homeless and Hungry
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Sometimes in a Hooverville Home
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Sometimes Unable to Find Work
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Sometimes Persevering
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Sometimes Content
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Sometimes Laughing
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Sometimes Enduring
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How Did the Great Depression End?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Discontent with Herbert Hoover
• Voters elected Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932

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How Did the Great Depression End?

• Roosevelt and advisors created the New Deal
• Relief and recovery
• Public works programs funded by government
• Provided thousands of jobs

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How Did the Great Depression End?

• World War II1941
• Increased demand for American goods
• The end of the Great Depression

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Bibliography and Credits

• Photographs and posters are courtesy of the
  American Memory Collection of the Library of
  Congress
• Bigger, Margaret G., ed. The Great
  DepressionHow We Coped, Worked and Played. A.
  Borough Books Charlotte, NC, 2001.
• Farrell, Jacqueline. The Great Depression.
  World History Series. Lucent Books San Diego,
  1996.

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continued

• Gerdes, Louise I, ed. The 1930s. Greenhaven
  Press San Diego, 2000.
• McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression
  America, 19291941. Times Books New York, 1984.
• Mulvey, Deb, ed. We Had Everything But Money.
  Reminisce Books Greendale, WI, 1992.

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Links to More Information

• History of the Great Depressionhttp//www.usemb
  assy.de/usa/history-depression.htm

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Links

• The New Dealhttp//usinfo.state.gov/products/pub
  s/history/ch10.htmhttp//www.fdrlibrary.marist.e
  du/index.html
• Fireside chatshttp//www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html

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Links

• Banking
• http//www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/when/193
  0s.html

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Links

• Dust Bowl
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/

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Links

• Hoboshttp//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/index.ht
  ml

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Links

• Hoovervilleshttp//www.washington.edu/uwired/out
  reach/cspn/hstaa432/lesson_19/hooverville.html
• http//www.historylink.org/galleries/nowthen/hoov
  er.htm
• http//www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/str
  ip/strip_n24.htmlhttp//www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork
  /laic/episode6/topic1/e6_t1_s3-hv.html

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Links

• Bungalows
• http//www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore
  /museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/bungradi.html

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Links

• Music, Arts, Fashion, etc.
• http//kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.htmlhttp/
  /www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/new_deal_for_the_ar
  ts/index.html

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Links

• Movieshttp//xroads.virginia.edu/1930s/FILM/film
  fr.html
• http//www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Shirley/shi
  rley.htmhttp//www.reelclassics.com/Movies/GWTW
  /GWTW.htmhttp//www.reelclassics.com/Movies/MrS
  mith/mrsmith.htm

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Links

• Movies continuedhttp//www.reelclassics.com/Team
  s/FredGinger/fredginger7.htmhttp//www.reelcla
  ssics.com/Musicals/Wizoz/wizoz.htmhttp//www.fil
  msite.org/snow.html

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Links

• Radiohttp//www.radiohof.org/musicvariety/katesmi
  th.html
• http//www.radiohof.org/adventuredrama/shadow.htm
  l
• http//members.aol.com/jeff1070/wotw.html

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Links

• Comics
• http//xroads.virginia.edu/1930s/PRINT/comic/car
  toon.html

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Links

• Breadlines
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode6/top
  ic1/e6_t1_s2-bl.html

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