Life During the Great Depression Essential Question: How were Americans affected by the depression? Word of the Day Repatriation: forcing a person or group of people to return to their country of origin Warm up Think about what the average American is experiencing during the Great Depression. Which group of people might be likely to be repatriated?

Dorothea Lange was an influential photo-journalist during the 1930s, whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression helped influence future documentary photography

Unemployment Use the Graph: What was the unemployment rate in 1929?   What year had the highest unemployment rate? Do you know the current unemployment rate in America?

Jobless men walk from town to town looking for work

Effects of Unemployment Immigrants face nativist problems Mexican Repatriation Act Jobless people go hungry (and their families) Soup Kitchens Breadlines Charity Organizations People Lose Homes Shantytowns "Hoovervilles" Hoboes

Effects of Unemployment Immigrants face nativist problems Mexican Repatriation Act Jobless people go hungry (and their families) Soup Kitchens Breadlines Charity Organizations People Lose Homes Shantytowns "Hoovervilles" Hoboes

Mexican Repatriation Act Effects of Unemployment Immigrants face nativist problems Mexican Repatriation Act Jobless people go hungry (and their families) Soup Kitchens Breadlines Charity Organizations People Lose Homes Shantytowns "Hoovervilles" Hoboes Mexican Repatriation Act An act authorized by President Hoover that sent over half a million Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico, many of them may have been American citizens. This made the migrant farm jobs the immigrants were doing available to Americans needing work.

Mexican Repatriation Act Effects of Unemployment Immigrants face nativist problems Mexican Repatriation Act Jobless people go hungry (and their families) Soup Kitchens Breadlines Charity Organizations People Lose Homes Shantytowns "Hoovervilles" Hoboes Mexican Repatriation Act An act authorized by President Hoover that sent over half a million Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico, many of them may have been American citizens. This made the migrant farm jobs the immigrants were doing available to Americans needing work.

Crops and livestock die (buried in dirt) Farmers lost land/profit Many left California was popular destination Over production of the land Drought Heavy Winds

Stop and Process: As you are watching this video clip, imagine what it would be like to live through in the Dust Bowl, and fill out the chart above. Video: PBS Dust Bowl

Arts and Entertainment Movies Radio Literature Art Photography Walt Disney’s Snow White- 1937 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Wizard of Oz- 1939 Gone with the Wind- 1939 Hattie McDaniel wins Academy Award, first ever for an African American to win Green Hornet Jack Benny Guiding Light Soap Operas The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck Thomas Hart Benton Grant Wood- American Gothic Life Magazine Dorothea Lange Margaret Bourke-White How did the Depression affect culture?

Arts and Entertainment American Gothic, painted by Grant Wood, kicked off a new style of art, meant to portray the average American in their home environment Arts and Entertainment Movies Radio Literature Art Photography Walt Disney’s Snow White- 1937 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Wizard of Oz- 1939 Gone with the Wind- 1939 Hattie McDaniel wins Academy Award, first ever for an African American to win Green Hornet Jack Benny Guiding Light Soap Operas The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck Thomas Hart Benton Grant Wood- American Gothic Life Magazine Dorothea Lange Margaret Bourke-White How did the Depression affect culture?

Arts and Entertainment The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, tells the story of an American family, left broke and destitute by the Dust Bowl. Out of desperation, they leave their farm and head West to California, hoping for a better life, but only find thousands of other refugee Americans, dealing with the same troubles American Gothic, painted by Grant Wood, kicked off a new style of art, meant to portray the average American in their home environment Arts and Entertainment Movies Radio Literature Art Photography Walt Disney’s Snow White- 1937 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Wizard of Oz- 1939 Gone with the Wind- 1939 Hattie McDaniel wins Academy Award, first ever for an African American to win Green Hornet Jack Benny Guiding Light Soap Operas The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck Thomas Hart Benton Grant Wood- American Gothic Life Magazine Dorothea Lange Margaret Bourke-White How did the Depression affect culture?

Could a second Great Depression occur in your lifetime? Exit Slip Could a second Great Depression occur in your lifetime? Explain why or why not.