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The Pain of a Failing Economy

What are your thoughts and feelings about the loss of the quizzes? 4 How did you feel during this activity? 4 What did you think when the teacher first told you the quizzes were missing? 4 How did you feel when you thought the teacher was not going to give credit for the missing work? 4 How did you feel when the teacher began reading names?

4 What were your feelings toward the students whose quizzes had not been lost? 4 What were your feelings toward the teacher? 4 How did your feelings change as the activity progressed? 4 Have there been other times in your life when you felt some of these same feelings? When?

4.?4.? 4.?4.? 4.?4.? 4.?4.? 4 Americans worked hard to earn money at jobs that were difficult. 4 Americans deposited their money in banks, institutions they thought they could trust. 4 Many banks in the late 1920s and early 1930s went bankrupt and lost the money people had deposited in them. 4 Depositors were angry, frustrated, and hopeless when banks lost their money. In-Class ExperienceBank Failures

The Human Impact of the Great Depression 4 Read handout

2.2B- Bank Failure: People Lost it all banks failed in …1350 banks …2,293 banks 4 $3.2 billion in savings 4 families were left penniless and were left but nothing but the shirts on their backs 4 One woman..25 years of saving from making rugs… $963 and $2,000 from husbands insurance…Nothing was left but charity

2.2b Americans refuse to give up 4 Transparency reflects American work ethic and value of self reliance during the Depression

Unemployment 4 Affected people psychologically as well as financially 4 minorities were first to lose their jobs 4 married women were still expected to be home while single women were often blamed for male unemployment

2.2c Dust Bowl: financially ruined many midwest farmers 4 Droughts 4 high winds 4 grasshoppers 4 bank failures 4 low prices/large loans 4 destruction of crops and lives of American farmers

2.2 D Breadlines: 4 Americans take what they can get/relief was scarce or not enough 4 soup kitchens/breadlines/ and shelters provided help 4 what’s the mood of the American people?

Lack of Public Relief 4 Disease was ramapant: tuberculosis, typhoid, and dysentary 4 entire towns of unemployed coal miners in Kentucky lived on blackberries and dandelions

2.2 e steel workers gathered outside their winter shelter

Homelessness 4 People lived in public parks, sewer pipes or crowded apartments 4 Hoovervilles: made of cardboard shacks and packing boxes--named after Pres who people said did not help ease their suffering

Brother Can You Spare a Dime 4 What is the mood of this song? 4 What did the singer do before the Depression? 4 Why do you think he feels the way he does now? 4 How do you think people like him coped during the Depression?

Illustrated Flow Map 4 Choose one of the causes of the Depression 4 Show its consequences in an illustrated flowchart 4 charts should clearly show how the cause you selected impacted Americans 4 flowcharts should be composed of at least 4 boxes, each box must contain appropriate illustration or visual symbol and caption.

4 The Crash did not cause the Depression, rather it was one of many complex factors. 4 Historians agree on 6 key factors: 4 1)Republican domestic and international economic policies. 4 2) unchecked stock speculation. 4 3) weak,unregulated banking 4 4) overproduction of goods. 4 5) the decline of the farming industry. 4 6) unequal distribution of wealth

The Great Depression---Illustrated Flow Map To increase production, farmers bought expensive machinery on credit. Overproduction depressed prices for farm crops. Severe dust storms raged throughout Midwest in early 1930s. Many farmers were unable to pay bank loans to banks. Farmers were forced to leave the Dust Bowl, and many went looking for work.