1. Hard Times Come Again: The Effect of the Depression Mr. Bach Hudson High School United States History

2. Hoboes Migrant workers roam the country looking for a job or a handout where they can find it. Hobo Signs –http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosi gn.htmhttp://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosi gn.htm

3. The Big Rock Candy Mountains One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fires were burning, Down the track came a hobo hiking, And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning I'm headed for a land that's far away Besides the crystal fountains So come with me, we'll go and see The Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, There's a land that's fair and bright, Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night. Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day And the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains. In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The farmers' trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains. In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks The brakemen have to tip their hats And the railway bulls are blind There's a lake of stew And of whiskey too You can paddle all around it In a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, The jails are made of tin. And you can walk right out again, As soon as you are in. There ain't no short-handled shovels, No axes, saws nor picks, I'm bound to stay Where you sleep all day, Where they hung the jerk That invented work In the Big Rock Candy Mountains..... I'll see you all this coming fall In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

4. Vagrancy and Chain Gangs “Move on... You are not welcome here!”

5. Farm Foreclosures In 1933: 364,000 farms went bankrupt and were foreclosed.

6. The Dust Bowl Drought hits the Plains in 1931. Poor farming practices makes the topsoil vulnerable.

7. A “Farm” in the Dust Bowl

8. Cars Trying to Escape a Dust Storm

9. Okies to California To escape the Dust Bowl, many “Okies” take Route 66 (The Mother Road) west to find work in California fruit orchards.

10. President Herbert Hoover Relied on “rugged individualism” and cooperation rather than government interference. 1930: Signs the Smoot- Hawley Tariff – destroys global trade.

11. Hoovervilles

12. The Bonus March Hoover’s Fate is Sealed

13. The Election of 1932