1. The Great Depression Big Ideas
Not caused by the Stock Market Crash (marked the beginning)
SC was already in a Depression
Farming Issues (Hurricane, Boll Weevil, Bank Foreclosures)
Banks and Textile Mills Closed

2. Great Depression Impacts: High Unemployment
Marriage and Birth Rates Dropped
Homelessness increased
Soup kitchens established (Charitable organization could not keep up)
People looked for the Government for Help

4. Recovery from Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President 1932
Promised a “New Deal” (plan to get out of the Depression)
Notable South Carolinians:
James F. Byrnes
Mary Mcleod Bethune

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. James F. Byrnes Important Domestic Policy advisor to the FDR.
Later appointed to the Supreme Court, Secretary of State and later Governor of SC.

7. Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator / Civil Rights Leader / Member of the Unofficial “Black Cabinet” for FDR
Founded College “Bethune Cookman”
Organized National Council of Negro Women
Director of Negro Affairs for National Youth Administration