1. CH9 The Great Depression Begins
Section 2: Life during the Depression

2. Soup kitchens
People left with no other option.

3. Shantytowns Bailiffs evict nonpaying tenants.
Take their belongings and make makeshift shacks on unused land
Shantytowns or “Hoovervilles”
“Hobos” emerge

4. Hoovervilles/shantytowns

5. hobos

6. Dust Bowl
Midwest farmers had taken out wild grasses that held in moisture, in order to plant wheat
Wheat prices drop…farmers stop planting wheat
Massive drought across midwest.
Massive fields of dust left.
“Okies” begin migrating West

8. Radio Family entertainment at night Soap Operas
Lone Ranger and “Tonto”
Soap Operas
Shown during day when women were home…advertised laundry soap…hence soap operas
Ridiculous plots offered an escape from reality.

9. Depression’s influence on Art
Grant Wood’s
American Gothic
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath, etc etc
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury

10. American Gothic