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Chapter 14 Section 2 Hardship & Suffering During the Depression

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1 Chapter 14 Section 2 Hardship & Suffering During the Depression

2 Brainstorm Close your eyes Imagine having no place to live
Imagine having no money to purchase food or clothing Imagine no government programs to help you

3 Objectives Describe how people struggled to survive during the Depression Explain how the Depression affected men, women & children

4 Employment 1929-1932 GNP $104B to $59B 90,000 businesses went bankrupt
Even auto & steel out of business Unemployment 3% (1.6m) to 25% (13m) Pay cuts and reduced hours Unemployment rate higher for Af Am & Latinos

5 Housing People evicted from their homes and in streets
Slept in parks, sewer pipes Shantytowns: little towns consisting of shacks Soup kitchens or bread lines: free or low cost food sponsored by charitable organizations

6 Farming The drought hit the Great Plains in the early 1930s then came the dust storms (7 year Dust Bowl) (Overproduction) (CA) Falling prices & rising debt: farmers lose their land 400k farms lost to foreclosure Some keep land & grow own food Some become tenant farmers

7 Race Relations Af Am & Latinos lowest paid
Violence coming from unemployed whites 24 Af Am lynched in 1933 Whites demand Latinos be deported Some Latinos leave voluntarily / some deported

8 Family Life Families kept their traditional values & unity
Played board games, listen to radio Hoboes (mainly men) ride train cars looking for work No direct relief: cash or food from the federal government NYC gave out $2.39 per family

9 Family Life Women canned food, sewed clothes, closely maintained a budget Women who worked paid less & targeted by men Children: School year shortened & schools close Children work at sweatshops Teenagers / Hoover tourists

10 Physical Health Children have poor diets/lack of health care & suffer serious health problems Milk consumption declines, rise in malnutrition and rickets Child welfare programs slashed People stop going to dentists & doctors

11 Emotional Health Suicide rate increases by 30%
3x more enroll in mental hospitals College, marriage, families put off Vowel never to be poor again Kindness displayed

12 Vocabulary Shantytown Soup kitchen Bread line Dust Bowl Direct relief


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