1. Riding the Rails

2. Quotes from the “lost”

3. Boxcar Life

4. The effects on a generation of kids…
Consider how the way children were raised during the Great Depression will effect how they act as adults.
“Mattress money”
“Clean your plate club”
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
History = Culture

5. Nearly fifty million Americans were born to the Silent Generation in America from the beginning of 1925 through Before them were the so-called G.I. Generation and after them the Boom Generation, then the X, and now the Millennial. No generation has so small a reputation as does the Silent. No generation since the American Civil War has been so misunderstood and underestimated.
*Generation Chart

6. Social History Scrapbook
Activity:
Social History Scrapbook

7. Families Many families separated to find jobs throughout the country
Families unable to pay the mortgage lost their homes and farms
About 250,000 young people were homeless in the early years of the Depression. Many became nomads, traveling the highways and railways.

8. School
 Students were too embarrassed to go to school with worn out clothes
Few adults could pay taxes: teachers were given a flat rate, classroom sizes were large, schools shut down
Many students dropped out to work
Started progressive classes – students could choose their subject

9. History = Culture List characteristics of your generation.
How does the history of our time period effect the culture?

10. Swing - Dancing their troubles away
The Movies – The Golden Age of Hollywood begins; 25 cents or less for a whole days entertainment
Games – Board games about the rewards of becoming rich

11. Thank you, Ford
Greenfield Village, Michigan

12. Thank you, Rockefellar
Colonial Williamsburg

13. Martha Graham

14. New Heroes

15. A new phrase, "the American way of life," entered the American vernacular.

16. Faith Returns

17. Bonnie and Clyde

18. MURAL ART
Create a mural to represent YOUR culture and/or history that has affected you generation.

19. Do you feel it is important to preserve history in this way?

20. Works Progress Administration
Music
Art
Sculptor

21. History = Culture Compare and Contrast
THEN (1930)
NOW (2014)
“Mattress money”
Clean Your plat” club
Riding the Rails
Going to the movies
Credit Cards
Wi-Fi
Movies – genres
Drive through
List characteristics of the 1930 culture and your generation.
How did the history of the time period effect the culture?