1. American History Chapter 15: Crash and Depression
II. Social Effects of the Depression

2. Objectives Understand how poverty spread during the Great Depression.
Find out about social problems that were caused by poverty in the 1930s.
Discover how some people struggled to survive hard times

3. Bell Ringer
How would you cut back on expenses if your cash funds were limited?
How would you feel?
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4. A) Poverty Spreads All people became poor Lowest paid hit hard
Hoovervilles: homeless shanty towns
15,000 homeless in New York – no jobs
Farmers suffered from low prices – lost farms – destroyed crops and dumped milk in protest – starving nation
Dust Bowl: drought that moved tons of soil in the Great Plains
Drought and farm practices – no prairie grass

5. B) Poverty Strains Society
Anxiety, depressed, and suicide
Impact on Health: people died of starving – children hit hard/quit school– relief gardens
Stress on Families: men felt like failures – could not provide for families – married women fired – took jobs away
Discrimination Increases: competition for jobs produced suspicions and hostilities against minorities. Minorities deported. 56% unemployment for blacks
No aid for minorities – lynchings increased – Scottsboro case.
Dorothea Lange

6. C) Stories of Survival Wilson Ledford
Lived off rent of house and 15 acres they owned
$6 a month
Swapped work
Dollar a week to live on
Raised food
Raised chickens
Made jelly from wild blackberries
Quit high school
Made a baseball diamond
Worked hauling ice
Plowing
Hitchhiking
Worked at a dam

7. Review How did poverty spread during the Great Depression?
What social problems were caused by poverty in the 1930s?
How did some people struggle o survive hard times?