Unit 6 Lecture 2:

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Unit 6 Lecture 2

• How were people affected by the Great Depression?

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Lecture Review Questions

1. How did Hoovers response to financial crisis
   make the great depression worse?
2. How were Farmers affected before and after the
   Dust Bowl?
3. What was the difference between how life changed
   to white Americans (male female) and other
   racial minorities?
4. What was the Bonus Army what did they want?

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How did President Hoover respond to the financial
crisis?

• Followed hands-off policy ? natural cycle
• Volunteerism
• Asked the wealthy to donate more
• Asked business leaders to keep employment and
  wages high
• Asked govt to cut taxes

Trickle-down economics money poured into the top
of the economic pyramid would trickle down to the
base
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How did a large number of Americans lose their
homes in the 1930s?

• Impact of the G.D. touched everyone
• Unemployment skyrocketed
• No Help Wanted Here
• People got laid off and could not pay their bills
  
• Clothes began to wear thin
• Smaller meals at home
• Water replaced milk
• Standing in bread lines/soup lines

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Rise of the Hooverville

• Hoover blamed for the sudden economic depression
• Hoovervilles shanty towns
• Hoover blankets (newspapers)
• Hoover flags (out turned pockets)

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What was often the only place a family could get
some food?

• Standing in Breadlines.

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Which groups of people were most effected by
the Great Depression?

• All Levels of society
• Hardest hit were those at the bottom
• Kids forced to quit school
• Men felt they were failures
• During the Great Depression how were women who
  worked viewed by society?
• Working women accused of taking jobs from men
• How were minorities affected by the Great
  Depression?
• Minorities lost their jobs to whites,
  discriminated against in relief programs
• last to be hired, first to be fired
• Unemployment rate of 50

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Farmer are hard hit rural America becomes
poverty stricken.

• Low Crop prices cut Farmers income
• As a result many could not pay their mortgages
  and lost their homes to the banks.
• In the South Landowners evicted tenant farmers
  and sharecroppers.
• Penny auctions farmers would bid mere pennies on
  land and machines auctioned by banks in order to
  help fellow farmers
• 1933 70 foreclosure sales were blocked by
  farmers
• Led to some states to suspend auctions

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How did the Great Plains become the Dust Bowl?

• Great PlainsAmericas Bread Basket
• Over plowingDroughtWind Storms

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How did the dust bowl start a mass migration of
people to the West Coast?

• People lost their farms and traveled West to
  California looking for work picking fruit.

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Americans Protest

• Rejection of capitalism and acceptance of
  socialism/communism rose
• Most still held faith in the American system

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Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C.?

• Bonus Army WWI vets who demanded payment of the
  bonus the government had promised them
• Riots broke out, military called in by Hoover to
  kick them out
• Hoover was doomed in the 1932 election