Great Depression and the Dust Bowl: 1929-1942

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl 1929-1942

• Looking at how the depression affected peoples
  lives

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• By 1932, 12 million people were unemployed
• That is 25 of the entire American population at
  this time. (The unemployment rate now is 7)

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• How do you eat when you
• have no money?
• People had to wait in
• bread lines and at soup
• kitchens for food

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• Many people lost their entire life savings when
  the banks failed, and therefore they also lost
  their homes
• They had to make new homes out of cardboard, tin,
  or crates
• These makeshift homes are known as Hoovervilles

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• What about the farmers out west?
• Life was just as bad as they faced falling
  income, foreclosure, and drought

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• Their income dropped by half
• Why?
• People could not buy food!

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• A drought in the plain states and southwest
  worsened their situation

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• The drought combined with poor farming methods
  resulted in a loss of topsoil, which would get
  whipped into giant dust storms
• The Dust Bowl

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• People couldnt live and farm here with these
  economic and environmental problems
• A group of migrant farmers moved to California
  looking for work
• They are known as Okies

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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
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Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• How do we beat the Depression?
• Starts in 1932 with a new President
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats Hoover (FDR)
• He promises a New Deal for Americans