Hard Times: The Great Depression

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• Hard Times The Great Depression

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Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931)
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• "Destitute Pea Pickers in California." Nipomo,
  California, February 1936. Photograph by Dorothea
  Lange.

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• "Migratory family traveling across the desert in
  search of work..."
• Dorothea Lange.

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• Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust
  storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936.
  Photograph by Arthur Rothstein.

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• Toward Los Angeles, California
• Dorothea Lange (1937)

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Russell Lee, The Faro Caudill family eating
dinner in their dugout Pie Town, New Mexico,
October 1940
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Russell Lee, Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his
family, Pie Town, NM, October 1940
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• Russell Lee, Garden adjacent to the dugout home
  of Jack Whinery, homesteader
• Pie Town, NM, September1940

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Causes of the Great Depression

• Structural weaknesses of the banking system?
• Unequal distribution of wealth?
• Changing nature of economy?
• Fiscal orthodoxy?
• Economic nationalism?
• Fall in money supply?

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We in America today are nearer to the final
triumph over poverty than ever before in the
history of any land.Herbert Hoover(1928)

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Bonus Army March (1932)
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Hoovervilles

• Squatters shacks along the Willamette River in
  Portland, Oregon.
• Arthur Rothstein (1936)

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1928 Presidential Election
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1932 Presidential Election
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FDRs First Inaugural Address, 1933
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The New Dealers

• Henry Wallace
• Harold Ickes
• Francis Perkins
• Harry Hopkins
• Raymond Moley
• Rexford Tugwell
• William Woodin
• Lewis Douglas

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• Eleanor Roosevelt

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The New Deal Coalition

• Southern Whites
• African Americans
• Organised Labour
• Midwestern farmers